Nance (film)

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Nance
Directed by Albert Ward
Written byAlbert Ward
Based on Nance
by Charles Garvice
Produced by G.B. Samuelson
Starring Isobel Elsom
James Lindsay
Ivan Samson
Mary Forbes
Production
company
Distributed by General Film Distributors
Release date
  • July 1920 (1920-07)
Running time
5,000 feet [1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Nance is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Albert Ward and starring Isobel Elsom, James Lindsay and Ivan Samson. It was based on the novel Nance by Charles Garvice. It depicts the relationship between an aristocratic man and a working-class woman. [2]

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  1. Low p.416
  2. Bamford p.75

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