United Kingdom
1952
95 minutes
Color
1.33:1
English
158
Oscar Wilde’s comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith’s film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, and Dame Edith Evans, the enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen.
| Jack Worthing | Michael Redgrave |
| Seton | Richard Wattis |
| Algernon Moncrieff | Michael Denison |
| Lane | Walter Hudd |
| Lady Augusta Bracknell | Edith Evans |
| Gwendolen Fairfax | Joan Greenwood |
| Cecily Cardew | Dorothy Tutin |
| Miss Letitia Prism | Margaret Rutherford |
| Director | Anthony Asquith |
| Screenplay | Anthony Asquith |
| From the play by | Oscar Wilde |
| Producer | Teddy Baird |
| Cinematography | Desmond Dickinson |
| Editing | John D. Guthridge |
Anthony Asquith is remembered primarily as the director of Pygmalion, The Browning Version, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all stage-to-screen adaptations comfortable flaunting their own theatricality. Yet as critic Jay Weissberg writes in the latest issue...
It’s been a little over a century since Oscar Wilde celebrated the opening season The Importance of Being Earnest in court, on trial for homosexual behavior. The scandal of Wilde’s “indecent acts” forced the smash play to close early in its run; the Irishman’s...
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