Flight from Folly (1945)

Directed by

Herbert Mason

Genre

musical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An unemployed showgirl pretends to be a nurse to care for a composer and playwright whose Russian wife has left him. She takes on the job and gets involved in his life and work.

lightheartedplayfulwhimsicalcomediclivelyupbeatold-fashionedbrisk

What happens

Flight from Folly is a lost 1945 British musical comedy film directed and produced by Herbert Mason, in his last directorial credit before moving onto production, for Warner Bros. The cast includes Pat Kirkwood, Hugh Sinclair and Tamara Desni, with music from Edmundo Ros and the Rumba Band. An unemployed showgirl impersonates a nurse and undertakes the job of looking after a composer and playwright abandoned by his Russian wife. The story was written by Lesley Storm, Katherine Strueby and Edmund Goulding. The film was distributed by Warner Brothers and First National Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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