The Pleasure Garden

Nov 3, 1925

1h 15m

★ 5.3

Overview

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Münchner Lichtspielkunst

Bavaria Film

Gainsborough Pictures

The Pleasure Garden Trailers

Cast

Patsy Brand

Virginia Valli

Jill Cheyne

Carmelita Geraghty

Levett

Miles Mander

Hugh Fielding

John Stuart

Oscar Hamilton

George Snell

Mr. Sidey

Frederic K. Martini

Mrs. Sidey

Florence Helminger

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