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Easy Virtue is a 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...1928 A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. ...Alfred Hitchcock. It was based on a play by Sir Noel Peirce Coward (spelling his forename Noël with the diaeresis was an affectation of later life, and Peirce is the correct spelling) (December 16, 1899 _ March 26, 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. ...Noel Coward.


The heroine Larita (Isabel Jeans) is married to a drunken brute. After he catches her almost being seduced by the artist who has been painting her picture, he brings suit for divorce. Adultery is the only ground for divorce in England at this time. She is now a disgraced woman of "easy virtue," Larita takes to the French Riviera where she ensnares a rich young suitor John Whittaker (Robin Irvine). She doesn't tell him about her checkered past and his family does not like her.


Cast

  • Isabel Jeans — Larita Filton
  • Franklin Dyall — Aubrey Filton
  • Eric Bransby Williams — Claude Robson
  • Robin Irvine — John Whittaker
  • Violet Farebrother — Mrs. Whittaker
  • Frank Elliott — Colonel Whittaker
  • Dacia Deane — Marion Whittaker
  • Dorothy Boyd — Hilda Whittaker


Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. ...Alfred Hitchcock's films
The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 film (actually released in early 1927), and the debut feature of Alfred Hitchcock. ...The Pleasure Garden | The Mountain Eagle is a lost silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...The Mountain Eagle | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog often just called The Lodger was a 1927 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Downhill is a 1927 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...Downhill | Easy Virtue | The Ring | The Farmer's Wife | Champagne is a 1928 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...Champagne | The Manxman is a 1928 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...The Manxman | Blackmail (1929) was British film with sound. ...Blackmail | Juno and the Paycock | Murder! | The Skin Game is a 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a play by John Galsworthy. ...The Skin Game | Number Seventeen | Rich and Strange | Waltzes from Vienna | The Man Who Knew Too Much is the name of two suspense films, one released in 1934 and the other in 1956, and both directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...The Man Who Knew Too Much | The Thirty_Nine Steps is an adventure novel by John Buchan, first published in 1915. ...The 39 Steps | Spy and secret agent redirect here; for alternate use, see Spy (disambiguation) and Secret agent (disambiguation). ...Secret Agent | Sabotage is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which tells the story of Carl Verloc (played by Oscar Homolka), a terrorist from an unnamed European country, who conducts a series of attacks in London. ...Sabotage | Young and Innocent (U.S. title: The Girl Was Young) is a British film (1937) by Alfred Hitchcock starring Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney and John Longden. ...Young and Innocent | The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from the novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. ...The Lady Vanishes | The Jamaica Inn is a Free House on the borders of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. ...Jamaica Inn | Rebecca is a 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...Rebecca | Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 film which tells the story of an American reporter who becomes involved in espionage in England during World War II. It stars George Sanders, Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Albert Bassermann and Robert Benchley. ...Foreign Correspondent | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Suspicion (1941) is a film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. ...Suspicion | Saboteur | Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 film noir which tells the story of a young woman who thinks that her uncle might be a serial killer. ...Shadow of a Doubt | Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. ...Lifeboat | Spellbound (1945), a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims to be. ...Spellbound | Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in a scene from this highly regarded film. ...Notorious | The Paradine Case was a 1947 courtroom drama movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, produced by David O. Selznick. ...The Paradine Case | Rope (1948), an Alfred Hitchcock film based on the play Ropes End by Patrick Hamilton, which was in turn inspired by the real_life murder of a young boy in 1924 by two college students named Leopold and Loeb. ...Rope | Under Capricorn | This article is about the sudden onset of fear while performing. ...Stage Fright | Strangers on a Train is a film released in 1951 by Warner Bros. ...Strangers on a Train | I Confess (1953) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Montgomery Clift as a Catholic priest, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue. ...I Confess | Dial M for Murder (1954) is a U.S. film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Grace Kelly and Ray Milland as a married couple. ...Dial M for Murder | Rear Window (1954) is a motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrich´s short story It Had to Be Murder (1942). ...Rear Window | To Catch a Thief is a movie made in 1955, and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams. ...To Catch a Thief | The Trouble With Harry is an American comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which was released on October 3, 1955 in the United States. ...The Trouble With Harry | The Man Who Knew Too Much is the name of two suspense films, one released in 1934 and the other in 1956, and both directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...The Man Who Knew Too Much | The Wrong Man | For other uses of the word Vertigo, see Vertigo. ...Vertigo | Spoiler warning: North By Northwest is a 1959 MGM film about a Manhattan advertising man, Roger Thornhill (played by Cary Grant), who is mistaken for a government agent and pursued by spies who want to kill him. ...North by Northwest | This article is about the novel and the movies based on it. ...Psycho | The Birds (1963) is a horror film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier, who also wrote the novel Hitchcocks film Rebecca was based on. ...The Birds | Marnie is a 1964 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Winston Graham. ...Marnie | Torn Curtain | Topaz, director Alfred Hitchcocks 51st movie, filmed between 1968 and 1969, was adapted from a book by Leon Uris. ...Topaz | Frenzy (1972) is a crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the second last feature film of his extensive career. ...Frenzy | Family Plot

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Word that start with E letter (2213 words)
3 free from embarrassment, awkwardness, constraint, etc.; relaxed and pleasant (an easy manner).
easy on the eye (or ear etc.) colloq.
of easy virtue (of a woman) sexually promiscuous.
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia (288 words)
Since, he has designed at Theatre Calgary, for The Pacific Opera Company (among other opera companies), Vancouver Playhouse, Tarragon, Theatre Aquarius, Globe Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Stratford, Grand Theatre (London) and the National Arts Centre among others.
More recently, in 1999, he designed set and costumes for the Shaw's Easy Virtue and Rebecca.
In February, 2000, he designer Christopher Newton 's Vancouver Playhouse /Grand Theatre, London co-production of She Stoops to Conquer (February, 2000).
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