The Girl in Possession
1934 film
- March 1934 (1934-03)
Running time
The Girl in Possession is a 1934 British comedy film starring Laura La Plante and Henry Kendall and directed by Monty Banks, who also wrote the screenplay and featured in the film himself.
The film was a quota quickie production shot at Twickenham Studios, with La Plante as wisecracking New York girl Eve Chandler, who receives the good news that she has inherited a large country estate in England. She crosses the Atlantic with her friend Julie, only to find that things are not as straightforward as she had been led to believe. Complications ensue as she crosses paths with a silly-ass toff (Claude Hulbert), an unscrupulous continental lothario (Banks) and a snobbish butler (Charles Paton) before she manages to sort matters out with the help of the kindly Sir Mortimer (Kendall), with whom she falls in love.
Cast
- Laura La Plante as Eve Chandler
- Henry Kendall as Sir Mortimer
- Claude Hulbert as Cedric
- Monty Banks as Caruso
- Bernard Nedell as de Courville
- Charles Paton as Saunders
- Millicent Wolf as Julie Garner
- Ernest Seton as Wagstaff
Preservation status
The Girl in Possession is classed by the British Film Institute as a lost film.[1]
When in February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of his pre-December 1949 films; including (The Girl in Possession) to Associated Artists Productions (which merged with United Artists Television in 1958, and later was subsequently acquired by Turner Broadcasting System in early 1986 as part of a failed takeover of MGM/UA by Ted Turner).
References
- ^ Missing Believed Lost British Pictures. Retrieved 21-10-2010
External links
- The Girl in Possession at IMDb
- The Girl in Possession at BFI Film & TV Database
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The films of Monty Banks
- Cocktails (1928)
- The Compulsory Husband (1930)
- Not So Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- Kiss Me Sergeant (1930)
- Almost a Honeymoon (1930)
- Why Sailors Leave Home (1930)
- The Black Hand Gang (1930)
- Old Soldiers Never Die (1931)
- The Wife's Family (1931)
- Poor Old Bill (1931)
- Tonight's the Night (1931)
- What a Night! (1931)
- Money for Nothing (1932)
- For the Love of Mike (1932)
- Love and Luck (1932)
- Leave It to Me (1933)
- Heads We Go (1933)
- You Made Me Love You (1933)
- Your Smile (1934)
- The Girl in Possession (1934)
- The Church Mouse (1934)
- Falling in Love (1934)
- Father and Son (1934)
- 18 Minutes (1935)
- Hello, Sweetheart (1935)
- Man of the Moment (1935)
- No Limit (1935)
- Queen of Hearts (1936)
- Keep Your Seats, Please (1936)
- We're Going to Be Rich (1938)
- Keep Smiling (1938)
- Shipyard Sally (1939)
- Great Guns (1941)
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