The Importance of Being Earnest

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.

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  Anthony Asquith
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  Robert Asher
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  Joan Davis
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  David W. Orton

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  Michael Redgrave
  Ernest Worthing
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  Michael Denison
  Algernon Moncrieff
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  Edith Evans
  Lady Bracknell
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  Joan Greenwood
  Gwendolen Fairfax
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  Dorothy Tutin
  Cecily Cardew
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  Margaret Rutherford
  Miss Prism
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  Miles Malleson
  Canon Chasuble
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  Richard Wattis
  Seton
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  Walter Hudd
  Lane
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  Aubrey Mather
  Merriman
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  Ivor Barnard
  Conductor (Uncredited)