Yellow Stockings
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Yellow Stockings is a 1928 British
drama film
directed by Theodor Komisarjevsky and starring Percy Marmont
, Marjorie Mars and Georges Galli. It was based on a novel by Wilson McArthur. After she unexpectedly receives a large inheritance a young girl is besieged by fortune hunters.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Theodor Komisarjevsky and starring Percy Marmont
Percy Marmont
Percy Marmont was an English film actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1916 and 1968. He is best remembered today for playing the title character in Lord Jim the first film version of Joseph Conrad's novel, and for playing one of Clara Bow's love interests in the Paramount Pictures film...
, Marjorie Mars and Georges Galli. It was based on a novel by Wilson McArthur. After she unexpectedly receives a large inheritance a young girl is besieged by fortune hunters.
Cast
- Percy MarmontPercy MarmontPercy Marmont was an English film actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1916 and 1968. He is best remembered today for playing the title character in Lord Jim the first film version of Joseph Conrad's novel, and for playing one of Clara Bow's love interests in the Paramount Pictures film...
- Gavin Sinclair - Marjorie Mars - Iris Selton
- Georges Galli - Richard Trevor
- Enid Stamp-Taylor - Nellie Jackson
- Marie AultMarie AultMarie Ault was a British actress.Born at Wigan, Lancashire, she was a star in many British films of the silent era but is most remembered for her role as Daisy Bunting's mother in The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog directed by Alfred Hitchcock.She also had bit parts in films such as Jamaica...
- Countess - Joseph R. Tozer - Tom Jackson
- Franklyn BellamyFranklyn Bellamy-Selected filmography:* Yellow Stockings * The Barton Mystery * The Little Damozel * Up for the Derby * Member of the Jury * Mr. Smith Carries On * Splinters in the Air...
- Menelos - Lydia SherwoodLydia Sherwood-Selected filmography:* Adventures of Don Quixote * The King of Paris * Little Friend * Spring in the Air * Midnight at Madame Tussaud's * The Four Just Men * When We Are Married...
- Erica - May Calvin - Mona
- Elizabeth Kerr - Mrs Higgins