The Woman in the Hall

The Woman in the Hall is a 1947 British drama film directed by Jack Lee and starring Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons, Cecil Parker. The screenplay was written by Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple and Gladys Bronwyn Stern, from Stern's novel. It was released in 1947.

The Woman in the Hall
Directed byJack Lee
Produced byIan Dalrymple
Written byIan Dalrymple (screenplay)
G. B. Stern (novel and screenplay)
Jack Lee (screenplay)
StarringUrsula Jeans
Jean Simmons
Cecil Parker
Music byTemple Abady
CinematographyC.M. Pennington-Richards
Edited byJohn Krish
Production
company
Wessex Film Productions
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
28 October 1947
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

It was made at Pinewood Studios, with sets designed by Peter Proud.

It was the film debut of actress Susan Hampshire, as a young child.

Plot

Lorna Blake (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money, visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help.

Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard (Cecil Parker) proposes marriage to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, Lorna refuses to help her.

Cast

Production

Jack Lee later recalled the experience of working for Wessex "revolted me" because "it reminded me of when I was a child and my mother would send me out on begging expeditions because she never had any money. It was a bloody awful novel and a terrible film."[1]

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References
  1. Brian MacFarlane, An Autobiography of British Cinema, Methueun 1997 p 356


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