Frail Women

Frail Women
Mary Newcomb
Directed by	Maurice Elvey
Written by	Michael Barringer
Produced by	Julius Hagen
Starring	Mary Newcomb Owen Nares Edmund Gwenn
Cinematography	Basil Emmott William Luff
Edited by	Jack Harris Lister Laurance
Music by	W.L. Trytel
Production company	Real Art Productions
Distributed by	RKO Pictures
Release date	23 May 1932 (1932-05-23)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Frail Women is a 1932 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Mary Newcomb, Owen Nares, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. In the years after World War I a Colonel marries his war-time mistress. ^[1]

It was made at Twickenham Studios ^[2] with sets designed by James A. Carter.

Cast

• Mary Newcomb as The Woman (Lilian Hamilton)
• Owen Nares as The Man (Colonel Leonard Harvey)
• Margaret Vines as The Girl (Mary Willis)
• Frederick Peisley as The Boy (Peter Farrer)
• Jane Welsh as The Sister (Eleanor Farrer)
• Herbert Lomas as The Solicitor (Burrows)
• Edmund Gwenn as The Bookmaker (Jim Willis)
• Athole Stewart as The Father (Sir Robert Farrer)
• Frank Pettingell as The Employer (McWhirter)
• Miles Malleson as The Registrar
• Heather Angel as The Girl (uncredited)

References

1. "BFI | Film & TV Database | FRAIL WOMEN (1932)". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
2. Wood p.71

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

Frail Women at IMDb