The Tinted Venus [SEP] cast member
The Tinted Venus
The Tinted Venus is a 1921 British silent fantasy film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, George Dewhurst and Maud Cressall.
The Tinted Venus was based on the 1885 novella by F. Anstey (pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie), in which a statue of Venus becomes human and responds to social mores and repressed sexuality in Victorian England. (The novella was also the basis for the 1941 musical fantasy, One Touch of Venus, by composer, Kurt Weill, with book by S. J. Perelman
, which the late nineteenth century English author George Gissing described as 'very poor stuff'. Anstey discovered (and again in 1889 with "The Pariah") that it was not as a serious novelist but as a humorist that the public insisted on regarding him. As such, his reputation was further confirmed by "The Black Poodle" (1884), "The Tinted Venus" (1885), "A Fallen Idol" (1886), and other works.
Guthrie became an important member of the staff