City of Beautiful Nonsense | |
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Directed by | Henry Edwards |
Produced by | Cecil Hepworth |
Written by | E. Temple Thurston |
Starring | Chrissie White Henry Edwards |
Studio | Hepworth Picture Plays |
Release date(s) | 1919 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent film English intertitles |
City of Beautiful Nonsense is a 1919 British silent film drama directed by Henry Edwards, who also starred in the film with Chrissie White. The film is based on the best-selling 1909 novel of the same name by E. Temple Thurston and is a tale of a woman intending to marry for financial gain and security, who realises at the last minute that to be true to herself and to have the prospect of a happy future she must instead marry for love. A sound version of the same story was made in 1935 by Adrian Brunel.
The film appears to have been well-received and popular with audiences and has been described as "the most talked about British film of 1919" and "technically on a par with the current Hollywood imports".[1] A contemporary review in The Bioscope admired Edwards' "poetic embellishments" and "symbolistic touches".[2]