After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.

• The Rank Organisation
• Gainsborough Pictures
• Margaret Lockwood
• Phyllis Calvert
• James Mason
• Stewart Granger
• Harry Scott
• Beatrice Varley
• Martita Hunt
• Helen Haye