A picture that missed getting into London’s Hollywood is this charming portrait of John Stuart and Virginia Valli in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Pleasure Garden (1926) filmed in Munich at the Emelka Studios.
Regarded as Hitchcock’s first ‘true’ feature film in a directorial capacity it was filmed in the summer of 1925 and also starred Carmelita Geraghty and Miles Mander. Despite overall praise for the finished picture things were not all rosy, and at the time there was much internal politics at Gainsborough Pictures which led to complications for Hitchcock that held up the national release.
London’s Hollywood: The Gainsborough Studio in the Silent Years
will be published 15th July 2014
A detailed look at the British Silent Film industry with this first ever evaluation of the history, output and achievement of the most iconic film studio in England during the silent era.
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ISBN 9781909230101
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Tags: 1920s, 20s, Alfred Hitchcock, British Silent Film, Carmelita Geraghty, Gainsborough Pictures, Gainsborough Studio, Islington Studio, Jazz Age, London's Hollywood, Miles Mander, The Pleasure Garden, Virginia Valli