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  1. 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 ...

  2. City of Beautiful Nonsense is a 1935 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Emlyn Williams, Sophie Stewart and Eve Lister. The film is based on the best-selling 1909 novel of the same name by E. Temple Thurston, which had previously been filmed as a silent by Henry Edwards in 1919. The plot deals with a young woman who is in ...

  3. The City of Beautiful Nonsense: Directed by Henry Edwards. With Henry Edwards, Chrissie White, James Lindsay, Henry Vibart. A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.

    • Henry Edwards
    • 1923
    • Romance
    • Henry Edwards, Chrissie White, James Lindsay
  4. The first film based on the novel was The City of Beautiful Nonsense, a silent movie released in 1919, which featured Henry Edwards, Chrissie White and Henry Vibart. The second film was a talkie, released in 1935 as City of Beautiful Nonsense. It starred Emlyn Williams, Sophie Stewart and Eve Lister. Both were filmed and produced in the United ...

    • E. Temple Thurston
    • 1911
  5. A tale of a woman intending to marry for financial gain and security, who realizes 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.

  6. A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father and only realizes after various tribulations that she should follow her heart rather than her head.

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  8. City of Beautiful Nonsense: Directed by Adrian Brunel. With Emlyn Williams, Sophie Stewart, Eve Lister, George Carney. A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father and only realizes after various tribulations that she should follow her heart rather than her head.