This Week of Grace

This Week of Grace (1933)

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.

Date of release
1933-06-30
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Maurice Elvey

Casting

Interesting facts

This Week of Grace is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Gracie Fields, Henry Kendall and John Stuart. It was written by H. Fowler Mear and Jack Marks from a story by Nell Emerald and Maurice Braddell. The screenplay concerns a poor, unemployed woman who is made housekeeper at the estate of a wealthy duchess. It was promoted with the tagline "Cinderella in modern dress" and includes songs written by Harry Parr-Davies, such as "My Lucky Day" and "Happy Ending".

Production

The film was made by Twickenham Studios following a dispute between Radio Pictures, which owned the rights to Fields, and Associated Talking Pictures (ATP), which had previously made her films. It was part of an attempt by Twickenham to move away from making Quota quickies towards higher-budgeted quality productions a strategy that continued until the bankruptcy of its owner, Julius Hagen.

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