August Weekend

Valerie Hobson takes the lead in this movie from Chesterfield. It's about a get-together at the country home of kindly, frankly climbing broker Paul Harvey who, it turns out, is facing jail for tax fraud and suggests to Miss Hobson that a life as an international fugitive with him might be fun. The guests (who are penniless members of the 400) and occupants of the house have their own plots running. This, however, is not made from an Elinor Glyn novel, but from one by Faith Baldwin. With the Production Code looking on, you can be sure that matters will end appropriately.

Miss Hobson was near the end of her two-year sojourn in Hollywood. She rarely got out of Gower Gulch and would soon return to Britain. There she would become a screen star, benefiting from her marriage to Anthony Havelock-Ellis. Her second marriage would be less successful; husband John Profumo became a byword for scandal throughout the United Kingdom.