Lord Camber's Ladies

Lord Camber 's Ladies is an English film director Benn W. Levy of 1932. It is based on the stage play The Case of Lady Camber by Horace Annesley Vachell, which was adapted for the film. Lord Camber 's Ladies is the only cinema, the film director Alfred Hitchcock produced without staging himself as a director.

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The film shows the melodramatic and tragic ending story of an aging former vaudeville singer, who is unhappily married to a nobleman, a womanizer and adulterer.

Background

  • The production of Lord Camber 's Ladies was under the influence of the steadily deteriorating relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and the production company British International Pictures (BIP ), stood at the Hitchcock at the time as a director still under contract: Ideal Opportunities Hitchcock were not realized, Hitchcock was forced to make a film for him uninteresting substances and suffered from interference in his work. Thus, Hitchcock agreed to produce a film itself. Seems unclear whether he originally wanted to stage the film itself or was planned from the beginning only as a producer.
  • Lord Camber 's Ladies was a so-called Quota quickie. This marked one English films - often given by American production companies in order - were turned down cheaply and quickly, to meet a statutory quota respectively to bypass, which was from 1927 to promote the local film industry and against the dominance of American films sponsor.
  • Hitchcock occupied starring and directed with personal friends. Therefore, the friendship with the director Benn W. Levy chose to go break because Hitchcock - who had suffered in GDP even under interference - allowed himself to criticize the director, and to give him advice and instructions, which did not accept this and in turn Hitchcock offended.
  • The main actor Gerald du Maurier was the father of writer Daphne du Maurier, whose stories of three Hitchcock filmed. Also his friendship with him went early to an end when Hitchcock made ​​him a joke to a painful scene by inviting him to an alleged " Masquerade Ball ", where du Maurier then was the only guest who appeared dressed.
  • Clare Greet was seen in a total of five films Hitchcock in The World Champion, The man from the Isle of Man, murder - Sir John intervenes, sabotage and Reef Pirates!.
  • Lord Camber 's Ladies was Hitchcock's last work for British International Pictures.
Screenplay James Wilson The Ring (1927 film) The Manxman Sabotage (1936 film)
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