Girls Will Be Boys

Girls Will Be Boys
Directed byMarcel Varnel
Written byCurt Siodmak
Roger Burford
Clifford Grey
Produced byWalter C. Mycroft
StarringDolly Haas
Cyril Maude
Esmond Knight
CinematographyClaude Friese-Greene
Ronald Neame
Edited byBert Bates
Production
company
Distributed byWardour Films
Release date
  • 17 September 1934 (1934-09-17)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Girls Will Be Boys is a 1934 British comedy film by French director Marcel Varnel and starring Dolly Haas, Cyril Maude and Esmond Knight.[1] It is based on The Last Lord, a play by Kurt Siodmak.[2] The film was shot at Elstree Studios with sets designed by the art director Cedric Dawe. Haas made this, her first English-language film, following a Nazi-led riot at the premiere of her previous film Das häßliche Mädchen. The riots protested the male lead, Max Hansen, who was supposedly "too Jewish." In 1936, Haas fled Germany altogether.[3]

Plot

A young woman dresses up as a boy to fool a wealthy misogynist.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Girls Will Be Boys (1934) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  2. ^ Nash & Ross p.1029.
  3. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.178.

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Nash, Jay Robert & Ross, Stanley Ralph. The Motion Picture Guide. Cinebooks, 1986.


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