Woman to Woman (1946 film)
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Woman to Woman is a 1946 British
drama film
directed by Maclean Rogers
and starring Douglass Montgomery
, Joyce Howard
and Adele Dixon
. It is based on the play Woman to Woman
by Michael Morton
. A British officer and a French dancer engage in a doomed romance.
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 Maclean Rogers
Maclean Rogers
-Selected filmography:Director* The Third Eye * The Mayor's Nest * Up for the Derby * The Crime at Blossoms * Trouble * Summer Lightning * It's a Cop * Virginia's Husband...
and starring Douglass Montgomery
Douglass Montgomery
Robert Douglass Montgomery was an American film actor.-Career:Son of a jeweler, he used the stage name of Douglass Montgomery when he first acted on stage in New York. He appeared as a ruggedly handsome fair-haired man, often slightly naive. He started his career in Hollywood, often playing the...
, Joyce Howard
Joyce Howard
Joyce Howard was a British film actress.-Filmography:* Freedom Radio * Love on the Dole * The Common Touch * Back-Room Boy * The Night Has Eyes...
and Adele Dixon
Adele Dixon
Adele Dixon was a London-born British musical theatre and film actress best known for performing in Broadway musicals, British musicals and in musical, comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s....
. It is based on the play Woman to Woman
Woman to Woman (play)
Woman to Woman is a 1921 play by the British writer Michael Morton. During the First World War a British officer and a French dancer meet in a doomed romance.-Film adaptations:...
by Michael Morton
Michael Morton (dramatist)
Michael Morton was an English dramatist in the early Twentieth Century.His comedy called Detective Sparks opened at the Garrick Theatre in August 1909 to good reviews...
. A British officer and a French dancer engage in a doomed romance.
Principal cast
- Douglass MontgomeryDouglass MontgomeryRobert Douglass Montgomery was an American film actor.-Career:Son of a jeweler, he used the stage name of Douglass Montgomery when he first acted on stage in New York. He appeared as a ruggedly handsome fair-haired man, often slightly naive. He started his career in Hollywood, often playing the...
- David Anson - Joyce HowardJoyce HowardJoyce Howard was a British film actress.-Filmography:* Freedom Radio * Love on the Dole * The Common Touch * Back-Room Boy * The Night Has Eyes...
- Nicolette Bonnet - Adele DixonAdele DixonAdele Dixon was a London-born British musical theatre and film actress best known for performing in Broadway musicals, British musicals and in musical, comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s....
- Sylvia Anson - Yvonne ArnaudYvonne ArnaudYvonne Arnaud was a French-born pianist, singer and actress.Germaine Yvonne Arnaud was born in 1892. She entered the Paris Conservatoire at age 9, studying piano under Alphonse Duvernoy and other teachers...
- Henriette - Paul CollinsPaul Collins-Athletes:* Paul Collins , American football player* Paul Collins , Canadian long-distance runner* Paul Collins , Australian rugby union international...
- David Junior - Eugene DeckersEugene DeckersEugene Deckers was a Belgian stage actor who relocated to England when his Nazi-held homeland was liberated by the Allies. Re-establishing himself on the British stage, Deckers made his first English language film appearance in 1946. Formerly a romantic lead, he specialized in "continental"...
- De Rillac - John WarwickJohn WarwickJohn Warwick was an Australian film and television actor.-Selected filmography:* On Our Selection * In the Wake of the Bounty * The Squatter's Daughter * Riding High...
- Dr. Gavron - Kay YoungKay YoungCaroline Kate Young is a former Canadian politician.Born in Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador, she represented the riding of Terra Nova in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1993 to 1996 as a member of the Liberal Party. She was Minister of Social Services and Minister...
- Pauline - Gerhard KempinskiGerhard Kempinski-Selected filmography:* The Day Will Dawn * Lady from Lisbon * Thursday's Child * Beware of Pity * Spring Song * Gaiety George * Woman to Woman * White Cradle Inn...
- Cafe Proprietor - Lily Kann - Concierge
- Martin MillerMartin MillerMartin John Miller is an English actor.Martin is originally from Oldham and trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2004...
- Postman - Marcel de Haes - Hotel Clerk
- Therese Carroll - Bookstall Woman
- Alan Sedgwick - John Meredith
- Agnes BernelleAgnes BernelleAgnes Bernelle was an actress and singer, long-based in the UK for much of her career, although she later settled in Ireland. Her family had fled Berlin in 1936...
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