

The Man in Grey
The most daring novel of the century lives on the screen
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
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- English
- jealousy
- england
- victorian england
- marriage of convenience
- tragedy
- murder
- extramarital affair
- blackface
- marquis
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United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York City, New York29 Nov 1945
- TheatricalNR13 Mar 1946
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical(Rated A)6 Aug 1943
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- Theatrical7 Dec 1945
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The Man in Grey was released on 6 August 1943.
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2- J8/10
John Chard
1/21/2014
The Gypsy Portent and the Woman of Deadly Nightshade. The Man in Grey is directed by Leslie Arliss and adapted to screenplay by Margaret Kennedy and Doreen Montgomery from the novel of the same name written by Eleanor Smith. It stars Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger. Music is By Cedric Mallabey and cinematography by Arthur Crabtree. A forerunner of Gainsborough’s Wicked Wome…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
4/4/2022
James Mason is the spoiled, somewhat ruthless "Marquis of Rohan" who alights on the charming, if naive, "Clarissa" (Phyllis Calvert) and decides she is to be the mother of his heir. That's all he wants from her. No love or romance - just so long as he gets a child. She grew up with "Hester" (Margaret Lockwood) and when many years later, sees her acting in a play, she asks her to come and live with her in her palatial…
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