''Uneasy Virtue'' is a 1931

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directed by Norman Walker and starring

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, and

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and shot at the company's

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. The film was based on the 1927 West End play '' The Happy Husband'' by Harrison Owen.

Synopsis

A loyal wife cultivates the impression that she has affairs with a variety of other men.

Cast

as Dorothy Rendell *

as Harvey Townsend *

as Bill Rendell *

Margot Grahame Margot Grahame (born Margaret Clark; 20 February 1911 – 1 January 1982) was an English actress most noted for starring in '' The Informer'' (1935) and ''The Three Musketeers'' (1935). She started acting in 1930 and made her last screen app ...

as Stella Tolhurst *

as Burglar *

as Arthur Tolhurst * Dodo Watts as Sylvia Fullerton *

Adele Dixon Adele Dixon (born Adelaide Helena Dixon; 3 June 1908 – 11 April 1992) was an English actress and singer. She sang at the start of regular broadcasts of the BBC Television Service on 2 November 1936. After an early start as a child actress, ...

as Consuelo Pratt * Hubert Harben as Frank K. Pratt * Gerard Lyley as Sosso Stephens *

Margaret Yarde Margaret Yarde (2 April 1878 – 11 March 1944) was a British stage and film actress. She often played domestics, landladies and mothers. Biography Yarde was born on 2 April 1878 in Dartmouth, Devon, England. Initially training to be an o ...

as Mrs Robinson *

Molly Lamont Molly Lamont (22 May 1910 – 7 July 2001) was a South African-British film actress. Life and career Margorie Edith Lamont was born in Boksburg, Transvaal, South Africa. She was active in sports as a young woman. She moved to England aft ...

as Ada

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

* 1931 films 1931 comedy films 1930s English-language films British comedy films Films shot at British International Pictures Studios British films based on plays Films set in England Films directed by Norman Walker British black-and-white films 1930s British films {{1930s-UK-comedy-film-stub