Film

A Woman of No Importance

19601h 15mDrama Comedy

Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Year: 1960

Oscar Wilde’s mischievous tale of social scandal

A witty but dissolute peer is about to engage as his secretary a young man who turns out to be his illegitimate son. Then he proceeds to make advances to the young man's fiancée.

Top cast

Griffith Jones

Lord Illingworth

Gwen Watford

Mrs. Arbuthnot

Marcia Ashton

Lady Stutfield

Tony Bateman

Lord Alfred Rufford

Helen Cherry

Mrs. Allonby

Stringer Davis

Farquhar

Clifford Elkin

Gerald Arbuthnot

Michael Ely

James

Coral Fairweather

Alice

Nicholas Hannen

Sir John Pontefract

Eira Heath

Miss Hester Worsley

Charles Lloyd Pack

The Ven. Archdeacon Dauberry

Michael Logan

Mr. Kelvil

Athene Seyler

Lady Hunstanton

Marian Spencer

Lady Caroline Pontefract

Directed by

Joan Kemp-Welch

Written by

Paul Dehn