I Lived with You

An early feather in the cap of Julius Hagen's nascent Twickenham Films is this precious screen record of Ivor Novello's 1932 West End hit, smoothly directed by Maurice Elvey and attractively shot by cameramen Sydney Blythe & Ernest Palmer.

There's been a bit of unobtrusive opening out (notably the scene shot in Hampton Court maze where hero and heroine first meet), but the play's the thing; complete with dialogue and situations that would not have got past the Hays Office the following year, and are now a bit gamy for 21st Century sensibilities.

The predominantly female cast includes the young Ursula Jeans and Ida Lupino ("She's charming! Is she still a good girl?") and preserves for posterity the extraordinary Cicely Oates (who died the year my father was born aged only 45 not long after featuring in a much smaller role in Hitchcock's original version of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much') as "Little Mrs Sunshine".