Vanity (1935 film)

Vanity
Directed by	Adrian Brunel
Written by	Ernest Denny (play) Adrian Brunel
Produced by	George Smith
Starring	Jane Cain Percy Marmont
Cinematography	Geoffrey Faithfull
Production company	George Smith Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	December 1935 (1935-12)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Vanity is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Jane Cain, Percy Marmont and John Counsell. The plot concerns a conceited actress, convinced of the general adoration in which she is held, faking her own death in order to gratify herself by observing the depth of grief caused by her demise. However the actual reactions to the "news" prove to be far from what she had expected.

Partial cast

• Jane Cain as Vanity Faire
• Percy Marmont as Jefferson Brown
• H. F. Maltby as Lord Cazalet
• John Counsell as Dick Broderick

Production

The film was a quota quickie production, made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames for distribution by Columbia Pictures. It was based on a play by Ernest Denny and is now considered a lost film.

The film is the only known cinema credit for Jane Cain, who went on to achieve a degree of immortality in British culture as 'the girl with the golden voice', becoming the original voice of the speaking clock in the United Kingdom between 1936 and 1963.

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985 .

External links

• Vanity at IMDb
• Vanity at BFI Film & TV Database