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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Anthony Asquith

1952

  • Comedy
7.2

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

Cast & crew

  • Anthony AsquithDirector
  • Michael RedgraveErnest Worthing
  • Michael DenisonAlgernon Moncrieff
  • Edith EvansLady Bracknell
  • Joan GreenwoodGwendolen Fairfax
  • Dorothy TutinCecily Cardew
  • Margaret RutherfordMiss Prism
  • Miles MallesonCanon Chasuble
  • Richard WattisSeton

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