Women Who Play Explained

Women Who Play
Director:	Arthur Rosson
Producer:	Walter Morosco Alexander Korda (uncredited)
Screenplay:	Frederick Lonsdale (play) Basil Mason Gilbert Wakefield
Starring:	Mary Newcomb Benita Hume George Barraud
Cinematography:	Philip Tannura
Studio:	Paramount British Pictures
Distributor:	Paramount British Pictures
Runtime:	78 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Budget:	$105,000^[1]

Women Who Play is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Mary Newcomb, Benita Hume and George Barraud. It was produced by Walter Morosco and Alexander Korda and has a screenplay by Basil Mason and Gilbert Wakefield.^[2] It is based on the 1925 play Spring Cleaning by Frederick Lonsdale.^[3]

Premise

In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.

Cast

• Mary Newcomb as Mona
• Benita Hume as Margaret Sones
• George Barraud as Richard Sones
• Joan Barry as Fay
• Barry Jones as Ernest Steele
• Edmund Breon as Rachie Wells
• Gerald Lyle as Bobby
• Sylvia Leslie as Lady Jane
• Evan Thomas as Willie

Production

Women Who Play was filmed at British and Dominion Studios, Elstree, in Hertfordshire, England for Paramount British Pictures.^[2]

See also

• The Fast Set (1924)

References

1. Costly Film Censored. Variety. 21. 8 March 1932.
2. Web site: Women Who Play (1932). https://web.archive.org/web/20090117085532/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58552. dead. 17 January 2009. BFI. 2 May 2016.
3. Kulik, Karol.Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Virgin Books, 1990.