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Bitter Sweet is a British film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Wilcox released in USA on 21 august 1933 with Anna Neagle

Bitter Sweet (1933)

Bitter Sweet
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Released in USA 21 august 1933
Length 1h33
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Musical,    Romance
Rating65% 3.268413.268413.268413.268413.26841

Bitter Sweet is a British musical romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and released by United Artists in 1933. It was the first film adaptation of Noël Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. It starred Anna Neagle and Fernand Gravey, with Ivy St. Helier reviving her stage role as Manon. It was made at Elstree Studios and was part of a boom in operetta films during the 1930s.

It tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance. Sarah, now a gray-haired old woman, tells her story to a girl who is on the eve of marrying an obnoxious man when she is really in love with a musician.

The operetta was remade in 1940 as a film of the same name with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; however, it was less faithful to the original story than the less censored 1933 version.

Actors

Anna Neagle

(Sari Linden)Esmé Percy

(Hugh Devon)Miles Mander

(Captain Auguste Lutte)Clifford Heatherley

(Herr Schlick)Gibb McLaughlin

(The Footman)
And :
Hugh Williams
Patricia Paterson
Kay Hammond
Miles Malleson
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