Frail Women Explained

Frail Women is a 1932 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Mary Newcomb, Owen Nares, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. In the years after World War I a Colonel marries his war-time mistress.^[1]

It was made at Twickenham Studios^[2] with sets designed by James A. Carter.

Cast

• Mary Newcomb as The Woman (Lilian Hamilton)
• Owen Nares as The Man (Colonel Leonard Harvey)
• Margaret Vines as The Girl (Mary Willis)
• Frederick Peisley as The Boy (Peter Farrer)
• Jane Welsh as The Sister (Eleanor Farrer)
• Herbert Lomas as The Solicitor (Burrows)
• Edmund Gwenn as The Bookmaker (Jim Willis)
• Athole Stewart as The Father (Sir Robert Farrer)
• Frank Pettingell as The Employer (McWhirter)
• Miles Malleson as The Registrar
• Heather Angel as The Girl (uncredited)

References

1. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | FRAIL WOMEN (1932) . 17 August 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121016211524/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/33878 . 16 October 2012 . dead .
2. Wood p.71

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.