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    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    "They don't come any wilder than Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals and morality!"

    1952

    1:35:41

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    7.2/10 (112)

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    The Importance of Being Earnest

    Genre

    Comedy

    Plot

    Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

    Director

    Anthony Asquith

    Writers

    Oscar Wilde, Anthony Asquith,

    Stars

    Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin,