First a Girl

First a Girl
Film poster
Directed by	Victor Saville
Produced by	S. C. Balcon Michael Balcon
Written by	Marjorie Gaffney Reinhold Schünzel
Starring	Jessie Matthews
Music by	Bretton Byrd
Cinematography	Glen MacWilliams
Edited by	Al Barnes
Release dates	31 December 1935 (1935-12-31)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

First a Girl is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews.^[1] First a Girl was adapted from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel.^[2] It was remade into the 1982 American musical comedy Victor Victoria starring Julie Andrews.^[3]

Cast

Jessie Matthews as Elizabeth
Sonnie Hale as Victor
Anna Lee as Princess Mironoff
Griffith Jones as Robert
Alfred Drayton as Mr. McLintock
Constance Godridge as Beryl
Eddie Gray as Goose Trainer
Martita Hunt as Madame Seraphina
Donald Stewart as Singer

References

↑ Sennwald, Andre. "New York Times: First a Girl". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
↑ IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024736/
↑ IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084865/

External links

First a Girl at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Victor Saville

The Arcadians (1927)
Tesha (1928)
Kitty (1929)
Woman to Woman (1929)
The W Plan (1930)
A Warm Corner (1930)
The Sport of Kings (1931)
Hindle Wakes (1931)
Michael and Mary (1931)
Sunshine Susie (1931)
The Faithful Heart (1932)
Love on Wheels (1932)
The Good Companions (1933)
I Was a Spy (1933)
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
Evergreen (1934)
Evensong (1934)
The Iron Duke (1934)
The Dictator (1935)
Me and Marlborough (1935)
First a Girl (1935)
It's Love Again (1936)
Dark Journey (1937)
Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Action for Slander (1937)
South Riding (1938)
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
The Green Years (1946)
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Desire Me (1947)
If Winter Comes (1947)
Conspirator (1949)
Kim (1950)
Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952)
The Long Wait (1954)
The Silver Chalice (1954)

Films produced by Michael Balcon

1920s	The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Blighty (1927) Downhill (1927) The Rolling Road (1927) Easy Virtue (1927) One of the Best (1927) The Vortex (1927) A South Sea Bubble (1928) A Light Woman (1928) The First Born (1928) The Wrecker (1929) The Return of the Rat (1929) City of Play (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Woman to Woman (1929)

1930s	Jack's the Boy (1932) I Was a Spy (1933) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Princess Charming (1934) Evergreen (1934) Red Ensign (1934) Along Came Sally (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Car of Dreams (1935) First a Girl (1935) Me and Marlborough (1935) The 39 Steps (1935) Stormy Weather (1935) Things Are Looking Up (1935) The First Offence (1936) Tudor Rose (1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Secret Agent (1936) Where There's a Will (1936) Windbag the Sailor (1936) Doctor Syn (1937) A Yank at Oxford (1938) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)

1940s	Let George Do It! (1940) The Proud Valley (1940) The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) Ships with Wings (1941) Turned Out Nice Again (1941) The Big Blockade (1942) Went the Day Well? (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) My Learned Friend (1943) The Foreman Went to France (1942) Undercover (1943) The Bells Go Down (1943) San Demetrio London (1943) Nine Men (1943) For Those in Peril (1944) Champagne Charlie (1944) The Halfway House (1944) Fiddlers Three (1944) Dead of Night (1945) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) They Came to a City (1945) Johnny Frenchman (1945) The Captive Heart (1946) The Overlanders (1946) Hue and Cry (1947) It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Frieda (1947) Against the Wind (1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Passport to Pimlico (1949) Whisky Galore! (1949) A Run for Your Money (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

1950s	Cage of Gold (1950) The Blue Lamp (1950) The Magnet (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Pool of London (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) The Cruel Sea (1953) The Ladykillers (1953) The Maggie (1954) The Night My Number Came Up (1955) Touch and Go (1955) The Long Arm (1956) Barnacle Bill (1957) The Man in the Sky (1957) The Shiralee (1957) Dunkirk (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

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