City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935 film)

City of Beautiful Nonsense is a 1935 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Emlyn Williams, Sophie Stewart and Eve Lister. The film is based on the best-selling 1909 novel of the same name by E. Temple Thurston, which had previously been filmed as a silent by Henry Edwards in 1919. The plot deals with a young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father and only realises after various tribulations that she should follow her heart rather than her head.

Cast

 * Emlyn Williams as Jack Grey
 * Sophie Stewart as Jill Dealtry
 * Eve Lister as Amber
 * George Carney as Chesterton
 * Marie Wright as Dorothy Grey
 * Eric Maturin as Robert Downing
 * J. Fisher White as Thomas Grey
 * Daisy Dormer as Mrs. Deakin
 * Hubert Harben as Mr. Dealtry
 * Margaret Damer as Mrs. Dealtry
 * Dorothy Vernon as Mrs. Rowse