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Maisie's Marriage

Family Planning: The Movie. The film they didn't want you to see in 1923.

Drama 1923 96 mins Silent

Director: Alexander Butler

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Overview

Controversial! The film they don't want you to see of the book they didn't want you to read. Waitress Maisie discovers that the path of love is not easy - but small families are happier than large ones. Think of this as Family Planning: The Movie, a fiction feature inspired by the contentious, wildly successful non-fiction book Married Love, written by Marie Stopes who was consultant on the film.

The film is in fact very chaste but that didn't stop the censors from taking a close and antagonistic interest in it. Soon-to-be Hitchcock favourite Lillian Hall-Davies stars, while future Powell & Pressburger regular Roger Livesey is among the names in the cast.

Director

Alexander Butler

Featuring

Rex Davies and Lilian Hall-Davis

Genres

Drama

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

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