The Girl Who Forgot

Name: The Girl Who Forgot
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1940-02-24
Rating: 4.9
Cast: Elizabeth Allan, Jeanne De Casalis, Basil Radford

1940

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4.9/10

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Comedy

A young college student under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but suddenly is stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist, seeing her condition, p... Read allA young college student under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but suddenly is stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist, seeing her condition, poses as her mother when she finds out that the young girl has a trust fund, intending to s... Read allA young college student under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but suddenly is stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist, seeing her condition, poses as her mother when she finds out that the young girl has a trust fund, intending to swindle her out of her money.

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4.9/10

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Trivia
Actress Elizabeth Allan was facing 30 when she made this film, but plays a college student whose age is variously given as 18 or 20.

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5/10

Did She Remember She Had Amnesia?

While daddy Basil Radford and Mummy Jeanne de Cassalis are flying off to Baghdad -- presumably to meet Naunton Wayne -- daughter Elizabeth Allan cracks under the pressure of exams and finds herself with amnesia. She is palmed off by Enid Stamp-Taylor as Muriel Aked's daughter, lest she steal fiance Ralph Michael.

It may have worked well enough as a novel, but I find it all very unlikely -- except the idea that anyone batty enough to marry Basil Radford would be happy to fly off to Baghdad for several months, forgetting she had a daughter. Everyone performs their roles well enough, and Miss Aked is quite amusing as a gradgrinding sort of raiser of funds in the name of good works, but the large number of coincidences and unlikely unlikable personalities that fool everyone but the audience wore out their welcome quickly.