The Gainsborough Lady

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 14

The Gainsborough Lady

U'SHERING in each film with a stately inclination of her head, as she sits in her ornamental frame, the beautiful Gainsborough lady is well-known to audiences wherever Islington Studio productions of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation Ltd. are shown. All the films from that studio are designated Gainsborough pictures, while those produced at Shepherd’s Bush are called Gaumont-British pictures. A new Gainsborough lady will in future greet film audiences, to the strains of the same charming minuet-motif which has accompanied the slow bow and gentle smile of her predecessors. The new “living portrait” was posed by Glennis Lorrimer, a 21-year-old Gaumont junior star, who plays a leading part in Gainsborough’s “My Old Dutch” with Gordon Harker, Betty Balfour, and Michael Hogan. Film-goers who see this film will find it hard to believe that the gracious, bewigged lady of the opening titles of the picture arid the neat, red-headed gamine, in wartime women’s auxiliary uniform of the film itself, are one and the same girl. Incidentally, it is interesting to note, the little minuet which accompanies the first few feet of each Gainsborough picture is an original composition by Mr. Louis Levy, Director of Mpsie to the Gaumont-British organisation.