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Easy Virtue is a British film of genre Drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock released in USA on 5 march 1928 with Isabel Jeans
Easy Virtue (1928)
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Add to a movie listEasy Virtue is a 1928 British silent romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall and Ian Hunter.
The movie is loosely based on the 1924 play Easy Virtue by Noël Coward. It was made at the Islington Studios in London. The film's art direction is by Clifford Pember.
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“ 'Virtue is its own reward' they say -- but 'easy virtue' is society's reward for a slandered reputation.Actors
Isabel Jeans
(Larita Filton)
Franklin Dyall
(Aubrey Filton)
Ian Hunter
(The Plaintiff's Counsel)
Dorothy Boyd
(Hilda Whittaker)
Violet Farebrother
(Mrs. Whittaker)
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