Little Friend (film)

Little Friend is a 1934 British drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Matheson Lang, Nova Pilbeam and Lydia Sherwood. The film was based on a novel by Ernst Lothar and adapted for the screen by Margaret Kennedy and Christopher Isherwood. The score is by the Austrian composer then in exile Ernst Toch.

Plot summary
A young girl (Pilbeam) slowly becomes aware that her parents' marriage is disintegrating.

Cast

 * Matheson Lang ... John Hughes
 * Lydia Sherwood ... Helen Hughes
 * Nova Pilbeam ... Felicity Hughes
 * Arthur Margetson ... Hilliard
 * Jean Cadell ... Miss Drew
 * Jimmy Hanley ... Leonard Parry
 * Gibb McLaughlin ... Thompson
 * Diana Cotton ... Maud
 * Cecil Parker ... Mason
 * Clare Greet ... Mrs. Parry
 * Jack Raine ... Jeffries
 * Finlay Currie ... Grove
 * Robert Nainby ... Uncle Ned
 * Atholl Fleming ... Shepherd
 * Basil Goth ... Doctor
 * Charles Childerstone ... Solicitor
 * Gerald Kent ... Butler
 * Allan Aynesworth ... Col. Amberley
 * Lewis Casson ... Judge
 * Fritz Kortner ... Giant
 * Hughie Green ... Boy

Prater Violet
Christopher Isherwood based his novel Prater Violet (1945) on his experience of working with Viertel and others on the production of Little Friend.