The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch

91 mins | Drama | June 19, 1956

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.

The Feminine Touch

91 mins | Drama | June 19, 1956

The Feminine Touch
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers The Rank Organisation, Ealing Studios
Original title The Feminine Touch
Directors Jean Graham, Pat Jackson, David Middlemas
Writers Sheila Mackay Russell

Cast

George Baker

as Dr Jim Alcott

Belinda Lee

as Nurse Susan Richards

Delphi Lawrence

as Nurse Pat Martin

Adrienne Corri

as Nurse Maureen O'Brien

Mandy Miller

as Young patient Jessie

Diana Wynard

as Matron

Henryetta Edwards

as Nurse Bowland

Barbara Archer

as Nurse Jenkins

Christopher Rhodes

as Doctor

Beatrice Varley

as Sister Snow

Dandy Nichols

as Kitchen-hand

Joan Haythorne

as Home Sister

Joan Carol

as Theatre Sister

Constance Fraser

as Assistant Matron

Vivienne Drummond

as Second-year Nurse

Richard Leech

as Casualty Doctor

Newton Blick

as Lofty

Charles Lamb

as Jenkins

Dorothy Alison

as The Suicide

Joss Ambler

as Bateman

Olwen Brookes

as Other Sister

Barbara Leake

as Other Sister

Iris Russell

as Other Sister

Sylvia Bidmead

as Other Trainee Nurse

Shirley Lawrence

as Other Trainee Nurse

Sally Pierce

as Other Trainee Nurse

Rosamund Waring

as Other Trainee Nurse

Madge Brindley

as Other Patient

Hélène Burls

as Other Patient

Margaret Halstan

as Other Patient

Molly Hamley-Clifford

as Other Patient

Mark Daly

as Gardener (uncredited)