A Feather in Her Hat | |
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Directed by | Alfred Santell |
Screenplay by | Lawrence Hazard |
Based on | A Feather in Her Hat 1934 novel by Ida Alexa Ross Wylie |
Produced by | Everett Riskin |
Starring | Pauline Lord Basil Rathbone Louis Hayward |
Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
Music by | Phil Boutelje |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
A Feather in Her Hat is a 1935 melodrama film starring Pauline Lord as a working-class woman with ambitions for her son. It is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by I. A. R. Wylie.
In 1925 London, middle-aged, widowed shopkeeper Clarissa Phipps pities genteel, but homeless drunkard Captain Randolph Courtney and takes him in. When Courtney corrects the lower-class accent and grammar of her son Richard, an idea is born. Richard benefits from Courtney's tutelage as he grows up.
Ten years later, on Richard's twenty-first birthday, Clarissa makes a startling announcement. She is not his mother, but was merely hired to raise him for his upper-class parents. She gives him a bank passbook with a balance of £1000 as arranged with his real mother and asks him to move out on his own. Richard and Courtney are both stunned. Emily Judson, with whom Richard has grown up, is distressed as well; she had hoped to marry him, but now feels he is out of her reach.
From Clarissa's private papers and what she had said, Courtney guesses that Richard's mother is Julia Trent Anders, a former star actress. Would-be playwright Richard, seeking to get to know her, becomes a lodger in her mansion, where he also meets her absentminded scientist husband Paul and her beautiful stepdaughter Pauline. Richard and Pauline are attracted to each other, much to the annoyance of rival suitor Leo Cartwright. Pauline becomes aware of Emily's prior claim, however, and desists.
When Julia discovers that her tenant has written a play (with a starring role suitable for her comeback), she introduces him to her friend, producer Sir Elroyd Joyce. Joyce reads his play as a favor to Julia; however, while he sees promise in Richard's work, it would be too expensive for him to produce. When Clarissa finds out, she sells her shop and uses most of the proceeds to secretly finance it without Richard's knowledge.
She and Courtney proudly attend the premiere of Son of Sixpence. The play is a success, but the experience is too much for Clarissa, already in very bad health. On her deathbed, she admits to Richard that she is actually his mother after all. Emily, admitting defeat, concedes Richard to Pauline.
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