Bitter Sweet (1933)
August 21, 1933Release Date
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Anna Neagle
Sari Linden
Fernand Gravey
Carl Linden
Miles Mander
Captain Auguste Lutte
Clifford Heatherley
Herr Schlick
Esme Percy
Hugh Devon
Ivy St. Helier
Manon la Crevette
Pat Paterson
Dolly
Herbert Wilcox
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Bitter Sweet is a British musical romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and released by United Artists in 1933. It was the first film adaptation of Noël Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. It starred Anna Neagle and Fernand Gravey, with Ivy St. Helier reviving her stage role as Manon. It was made at British and Dominion's Elstree Studios and was part of a boom in operetta films during the 1930s.
It tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance. Sarah, now a gray-haired old woman, tells her story to a girl who is on the eve of marrying an obnoxious man when she is really in love with a musician.The operetta was remade in 1940 as a film of the same name with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; however, it was less faithful to the original story than the less censored 1933 version.