A Southern Maid (film)

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A Southern Maid
Directed by Harry Hughes
Written byDion Clayton Calthrop
Harry Graham
Frank Launder
Austin Melford
Frank Miller
Arthur B. Woods
Produced by Walter C. Mycroft
Starring Bebe Daniels
Clifford Mollison
Hal Gordon
Cinematography Claude Friese-Greene
Phil Grindrod
Edited byEdward B. Jarvis
Music by Harold Fraser-Simson
Production
company
Distributed by Wardour Films
Release date
October 1933
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Southern Maid is a 1933 British musical film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Bebe Daniels, Clifford Mollison and Hal Gordon. [1] It is based on the operetta A Southern Maid by Harold Fraser-Simson. A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure. It was part of the cycle of operetta films popular in Britain in the mid-1930s.

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References

  1. "BFI | Film & TV Database | A SOUTHERN MAID (1933)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.