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Evensong

1934, Movie, NR, 83 mins

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Laye is an Irish opera singer whose career rises and falls over the course of the film. Kortner is her manager, who always forbade his prima donna romance, depriving her of the happiness she might have found with Esmond. The final scene has the aging diva with the burned-out voice upstaged by a young singer. She then returns to her dressing room to listen to her old records, and dies. A tragic story competently acted and told. Alec Guinness made his film debut here as an ext... read more leave a comment
Year: 1934
Rated NR

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Cast
Evelyn Laye: Irela
Fritz Kortner: Kober
Alice Delysia: Mme. Valmond
Carl Esmond: Archduke Theodore
Emlyn Williams: George Murray
Muriel Aked: Tremlowe

 

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