Young Man's Fancy (1939)
July 31, 1939Release Date
Young Man's Fancy (1939)
July 31, 1939Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Griffith Jones
Lord Alban
Anna Lee
Ada
Seymour Hicks
Duke of Beaumont
Billy Bennett
Capt. Boumphray
Edward Rigby
Gray
Francis L. Sullivan
Blackbeard, Vincent St George
Martita Hunt
Duchess of Beaumont
Meriel Forbes
Miss Crowther
Felix Aylmer
Sir Caleb Crowther
Raymond Aimos
Tramp
Phyllis Monkman
Esme
Morton Selten
Mr. Fothergill
George Carney
Chairman
Allan Aynesworth
Mr. Trubshaw
Athene Seyler
Milliner
E. V. H. Emmett
Writer
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 31, 1939
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 17m
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Young Man's Fancy is a 1939 British historical comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Anna Lee, Griffith Jones, and Seymour Hicks. The screenplay concerns an aristocratic Englishman who is unhappily engaged to a brewery heiress but meets Ada, an Irish human cannonball, during a visit to a music hall and falls in love with her. Together they are trapped in Paris during the Siege of Paris (1870-1871).
The screenplay was written by Roland Pertwee and Stevenson, with additional dialogue by Rodney Ackland and E.V.H. Emmett. The character of Ada, written especially for Anna Lee by Stevenson, her husband, is "based on Zazel, the original 'human cannon ball', who thrilled London audiences in the [eighteen] nineties by being shot from a cannon" — however, "for the purposes of the film … the period [of the screenplay] has been put back to the seventies".