![]() The Importance of Being Earnest was the first English-language film version of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of social pretension and mistaken identity. Why THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Is Essential But when his friend Algernon discovers the ruse - and the existence of Jack's very pretty, very rich ward Cecily - the stage is set for a comedy of mistaken identities.Ĭast: Michael Redgrave (Jack Worthing), Michael Denison (Algernon Moncrieff), Edith Evans (Lady Bracknell), Joan Greenwood (Gwendolen Fairfax), Dorothy Tutin (Cecily Cardew), Margaret Rutherford (Miss Prism), Miles Malleson (Canon Chasuble), Aubrey Mather (Merriman) How can you have fun without paying the price? Jack Worthing thinks he has the perfect answer by being a proper landed gentleman in the country and passing himself off as his imaginary, less respectable brother Ernest in the city, where he has been courting the beautiful Gwendolen Fairfax. ![]() ![]() It's a question that's haunted men for ages. ![]()
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