Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
1h 47m
Running Time
May 8, 1944Release Date
Plot.
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
![Phyllis Calvert](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/60951-phyllis-calvert.webp)
Phyllis Calvert
Fanny Hopwood a.k.a. Fanny Hooper
![James Mason](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/35975-james-mason.webp)
James Mason
Lord Manderstoke
![Wilfrid Lawson](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/59892-wilfrid-lawson.webp)
Wilfrid Lawson
Chunks
![Stewart Granger](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/21742-stewart-granger.webp)
Stewart Granger
Harry Somerford
![Jean Kent](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/62239-jean-kent.webp)
Jean Kent
Lucy
![Margaretta Scott](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/62018-margaretta-scott.webp)
Margaretta Scott
Alicia Seymour
![Nora Swinburne](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/44161-nora-swinburne.webp)
Nora Swinburne
Mrs. Hopwood
![Cathleen Nesbitt](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11005-cathleen-nesbitt.webp)
Cathleen Nesbitt
Kate Somerford
![Helen Haye](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/40376-helen-haye.webp)
Helen Haye
Mrs. Somerford
![John Laurie](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/40375-john-laurie.webp)
John Laurie
William Hopwood
![Stuart Lindsell](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Stuart Lindsell
Clive Seymore
![Anthony Asquith](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/93342-anthony-asquith.webp)
Anthony Asquith
Director
![Amy Veness](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/22927-amy-veness.webp)
Amy Veness
Mrs. Heaviside
![Ann Wilton](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Ann Wilton
Carver
![Doreen Montgomery](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Doreen Montgomery
Writer
![Guy Le Feuvre](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Guy Le Feuvre
Doctor Lowenthal
![Aimée Stuart](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Aimée Stuart
Writer
![Ann Stephens](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/548279-ann-stephens.webp)
Ann Stephens
Fanny as Child
![Michael Sadleir](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Michael Sadleir
Writer
![Edward Black](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Edward Black
Producer
![Esma Cannon](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/20395-esma-cannon.webp)
Esma Cannon
Maid (uncredited)
![Cedric Mallabey](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Cedric Mallabey
Composer
![Beresford Egan](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Beresford Egan
(uncredited)
![Arthur Crabtree](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Arthur Crabtree
Cinematographer
![Helen Goss](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/37263-helen-goss.webp)
Helen Goss
Polly (uncredited)
![Peter Jones](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/5769-peter-jones.webp)
Peter Jones
Young Client at 'The Shades' (uncredited)
![R. E. Dearing](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
R. E. Dearing
Editor
![Vi Kaley](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Vi Kaley
Mrs. Joe (uncredited)
![Virginia Keiley](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Virginia Keiley
(uncredited)
![Beryl Laverick](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Beryl Laverick
(uncredited)
![Joan Rees](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Joan Rees
(uncredited)
![Johnnie Schofield](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/284698-johnnie-schofield.webp)
Johnnie Schofield
Joe (uncredited)
Media.
![Fanny by Gaslight](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/65935-fanny-by-gaslight.webp)
Details.
Wiki.
Fanny by Gaslight (US title – Man of Evil) is a 1944 British drama film, directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Gainsborough Pictures, set in the 1870s and adapted from a 1940 novel by Michael Sadleir (also adapted as a 1981 TV serial).
It was the second of its famous period-set "Gainsborough melodramas", following The Man in Grey (1943). Its US release was delayed for its breaking the Hays Purity Code and 17 minutes were removed.
Stewart Granger later said he "didn't like" the film because of its "drippy characters" but thought "Asquith was much the best of those directors I worked with at Gainsborough."
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