
Fanny by Gaslight
Release Date: 1944-05-08
Language: EN
Country: 🇬🇧 GB
Rating:
⭐ 5.7 / 10
( 8 votes )
Runtime: 1h 47m
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

James Mason
Lord Manderstoke

Phyllis Calvert
Fanny

Stewart Granger
Harry Somerford

Jean Kent
Lucy Beckett

Wilfrid Lawson
Chunks

Margaretta Scott
Alicia

John Laurie
William Hopwood

Cathleen Nesbitt
Kate Somerford

Helen Haye
Mrs. Somerford

Nora Swinburne
Mary Hopwood
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Stuart Lindsell
Clive Seymore

Amy Veness
Mrs. Heaviside