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The Importance of Being Earnest

They don't come any wilder than Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals and morality!

02 Jun 1952
  • United Kingdom
95 mins
7.2
112 votes
  • Comedy
articleOverview personCast
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.
  • Michael Redgrave

    as Ernest Worthing
  • Michael Denison

    as Algernon Moncrieff
  • Edith Evans

    as Lady Bracknell
  • Joan Greenwood

    as Gwendolen Fairfax
  • Dorothy Tutin

    as Cecily Cardew
  • Margaret Rutherford

    as Miss Prism
  • Miles Malleson

    as Canon Chasuble
  • Richard Wattis

    as Seton
  • Walter Hudd

    as Lane
  • Aubrey Mather

    as Merriman
  • Ivor Barnard

    as Conductor (Uncredited)

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