| Bitter Sweet | |
|---|---|
_poster.JPG) Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Screenplay by | Lydia Hayward Monckton Hoffe Herbert Wilcox |
| Based on | Bitter Sweet 1929 operetta by Noël Coward |
| Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Starring | Anna Neagle Fernand Gravey Esme Percy Clifford Heatherley Ivy St. Helier |
| Cinematography | Freddie Young |
| Edited by | Michael Hankinson |
| Music by | Roy Robertson |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date | 31 August 1933 |
Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £500,000[1] |
Bitter Sweet is a British musical romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and released by United Artists in 1933. It was the first film adaptation of Noël Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. It starred Anna Neagle and Fernand Gravey, with Ivy St. Helier reviving her stage role as Manon. It was made at British and Dominion's Elstree Studios and was part of a boom in operetta films during the 1930s.
It tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance. Sarah, now a gray-haired old woman, tells her story to a girl who is on the eve of marrying an obnoxious man when she is really in love with a musician.[2]
The operetta was remade in 1940 as a film of the same name with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; however, it was less faithful to the original story than the less censored 1933 version.[3]
