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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Cast & Crew.
Phyllis Calvert
Fanny Hopwood a.k.a. Fanny Hooper
James Mason
Lord Manderstoke
Wilfrid Lawson
Chunks
Stewart Granger
Harry Somerford
Jean Kent
Lucy
Margaretta Scott
Alicia Seymour
Nora Swinburne
Mrs. Hopwood
Cathleen Nesbitt
Kate Somerford
Helen Haye
Mrs. Somerford
John Laurie
William Hopwood
Stuart Lindsell
Clive Seymore
Amy Veness
Mrs. Heaviside
Anthony Asquith
Director
Doreen Montgomery
Writer
Ann Wilton
Carver
Guy Le Feuvre
Doctor Lowenthal
Aimée Stuart
Writer
Ann Stephens
Fanny as Child
Michael Sadleir
Writer
Edward Black
Producer
Esma Cannon
Maid (uncredited)
Beresford Egan
(uncredited)
Cedric Mallabey
Composer
Arthur Crabtree
Cinematographer
Helen Goss
Polly (uncredited)
R. E. Dearing
Editor
Peter Jones
Young Client at 'The Shades' (uncredited)
Vi Kaley
Mrs. Joe (uncredited)
Virginia Keiley
(uncredited)
Beryl Laverick
(uncredited)
Joan Rees
(uncredited)
Johnnie Schofield
Joe (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
infidelity
london england
based on novel or book
brothel
19th century
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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