Director: Milton Rosmer
Release Date: November 1931
An unseen film. On 23 April 1931 The Stage announced that The Lovelorn Lady, the production name for The Perfect Lady, will feature ‘an unusual location’ at ‘the swimming bath in the the Ladies’ Carlton Club’ and while it’s not mentioned the club was at 4-5 Grosvenor Place. The Bioscope mentioned the same location again, 29 April, while adding that ‘In the film we shall also see actual shots taken at the London Zoo; inside a Beauty Parlour, and some thrilling flying scenes at Hatfield and Croydon, in all of which the actual artists take part.’ The Kinematograph Weekly added, 4 June, that ‘The Zoo has at last gone talkie! After a number of nature study shorts, a real full-length talkie production has been introduced complete with cast cameras and microphone into the precincts of the Mapping Terraces. The scenes enacted were for B.I.P.’s picture “The Lovelorn Lady,” and the two leading players, Moira Lynd and Harry Wilcoxon were shown making each other’s acquaintance with no other introduction than that provided by their mutual caged friends. Milton Rosmer, who is directing the film, found many willing “supers” in addition to his company among spectators.’
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Moira Lynd and Harry Wilcoxon at the London Zoo from a photograph which appeared in Kinematograph Weekly, 9 July 1931
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Lynd's visit to the London Zoo was also recorded in the Nottingham Evening Post, 11 July, where the caption suggested she was taking the 'Cure for the hump.'
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A shot of Lynd which may show her in this film.