It Started in Paradise

It Started in Paradise (1952)

A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.

Date of release
1952-10-28
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama
Director
Compton Bennett

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

It Started in Paradise is a 1952 British drama film directed by Compton Bennett and starring Jane Hylton, Martita Hunt and Muriel Pavlow.

Production

The movie was known as Fanfare for Fig Leaves. In February 1952 Earl St John, head of production at Rank, announced British Film-Makers would make a slate of 12 movies at a cost of £1,500,000, including Fanfare for Fig Leaves with Kay Kendall and Ian Hunter.

Filming started 17 March 1952. The film was made at Pinewood Studios with sets designed by the art director Edward Carrick. It was shot in Technicolor and is described by Hal Erickson of Allmovie as: "an unusually plush, Lana Turner-esque production to come from a British studio in the early 1950s".

Muriel Pavlow recalls there "were a lot of ‘backstage’ problems on" the film:

They engaged a nice young woman who had produced some fine designs, but she had no experience of dressing films. About a third of the way through it became apparent that what she was doing was a disaster; so another designer was brought in to finish off the film, and, from then on, we all began to look rather smarter. The story was fairly ‘Peg’s Paper’; still, it was a very lucky film for me.

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