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Day-Dreams

1928Short⏱️ 25m
ShortComedy
7.8
IMDB Rating
23 votes

A young cleaning woman in a boarding house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic...

Director
Ivor Montagu
Writers
Frank Wells, H.G. Wells
Stars
Elsa Lanchester, Harold Warrender, Charles Laughton
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
💬 2
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Lanchester
as Elsa
Harold Warrender
Harold Warrender
as Count Pornay
Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton
as Lecherous Boarder
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Dorice Fordred
as Maggie
Marie Wright
Marie Wright
as Landlady

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
Angle Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

based on the works of h.g. wellscleaning ladyforeign studentdaydreamnobility

🎯 Categories

ComedyShort

⭐ Featured Review

A Hoot
by richardchatten2018-05-02
8/10

"All those besotted with the unique Elsa Lanchester (and you know who you are!) will have a great time with this follow-up to her short comedy 'Bluebottles', on which considerably more money and ingenuity has obviously been spent and which she sashays through in a variety of knockout outfits, including a bathing suit. Director Ivor Montagu's time spent studying Soviet and Continental cinema at the Film Society has plainly been well spent, while the camera is in the able hands of a 25 year-old Freddie Young. Elsa's real-life husband Charles Laughton has a considerably larger..."

💡 Did You Know?

Third of three entries in the H.G. Wells two-reel comedy series.

📖 Synopsis

A young cleaning woman in a boarding house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic...