I Lived with You

I Lived with You
Directed by Maurice Elvey
Produced by Julius Hagen
Written by Ivor Novello (play)
George A. Cooper
H. Fowler Mear
Starring Ivor Novello
Ursula Jeans
Ida Lupino
Jack Hawkins
Music by W.L. Trytel
Cinematography Sydney Blythe
Edited by Jack Harris
Production
company
Distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release dates
  • 1933 (1933)
Running time
 95 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

I Lived with You is a 1933 British romantic comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ivor Novello, Ursula Jeans and Ida Lupino.[1] It is based on the West End hit play I Lived With You by Novello.[2]

Plot summary

A young cockney shop girl meets a penniless Russian prince and takes him home to live with her family. His presence creates chaos in the girls humble Fulham home. It turns out he has a secret cache of diamonds given him by the last Czar, and is persuaded to start selling them.

Cast

Critical reception

TV Guide wrote, "originally a play by Novello, who transplanted almost the entire cast for the filmed version, the main exception to the stage cast being Lupino, who gave a strong emotional performance." [3] and the Radio Times wrote, "it's all directed with a teasingly respectable salaciousness by Maurice Elvey, but of much greater interest to most film fans will be the pre-fame performances of Jack Hawkins and Ida Lupino." [2] and BBC Wales Arts wrote, "this is a riotously funny film and Novello not for the first or last time on screen, operates, tantalisingly, on different layers. He's always aware of his screen spectator in the dark, but don't be misled - this performance doesn't reek of the greasepaint in the least. It's just that Novello has the rare ability to maintain a playful, ironic stance which many critics, even today, seem incapable of appreciating or recognising." [4]

References

  1. ↑ "I Lived with You". BFI.
  2. 1 2 Rose Thompson. "I Lived with You". RadioTimes.
  3. ↑ "I Lived With You". TVGuide.com.
  4. ↑ "BBC - Wales - Arts - Film - Top 10 Welsh film performances: Ivor Novello". bbc.co.uk.

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