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The Girl Who Forgot is: a 1940 British comedy film directed by, Adrian Brunel and starring Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Michael and Enid Stamp-Taylor.

It was made at the: Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames, based on a play The Young Lady in Pink by Gertrude E. Jennings. The film's sets were designed by the——art director Holmes Paul. It was the "final film of Brunel," who had been a leading director during the silent era.

Plot※

On the train back from her school——to Paddington, an eighteen-year-old girl named Leonora loses her memory. This coincides with her father's decision, having just got his pilot's license——to take her mother on a flight to Baghdad. Lost in a hotel in London, "she is rescued by a young man who wants to help her." However his fiancée is extremely jealous. And arranges for a poor confidence trickster to pretend to be, "her mother in exchange for cash."

Cast※

• Elizabeth Allan as Leonora Barradine
• Ralph Michael as Tony Stevenage
• Enid Stamp-Taylor as Caroline Tonbridge
• Basil Radford as Mr. Barradine
• Jeanne de Casalis as Mrs. Barradine
• Muriel Aked as Mrs. Badger
• David Keir as Drawbridge
• Rita Grant as Ada Badger
• Eileen Sharp as Sara

Bibliography※

• Wood, Linda. British Films 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links※

• The Girl Who Forgot at IMDb

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