Canaries Sometimes Sing

Canaries Sometimes Sing

80 mins | Comedy | Sept. 10, 1930

Over the course of their marriage, Geoffrey Lymes has become increasingly exasperated by the shallowness and superficiality of his wife Anne. He despairs of her ridiculous affectations, social-climbing aspirations and constant embarrassing attempts in company to show herself as an elegant, cultured sophisticate. He feels trapped in a relationship where, as he observes, a wife "does nothing to entitle her husband to divorce her, but a thousand things that entitle him to murder her".

Canaries Sometimes Sing

80 mins | Comedy | Sept. 10, 1930

Canaries Sometimes Sing
Over the course of their marriage, Geoffrey Lymes has become increasingly exasperated by the shallowness and superficiality of his wife Anne. He despairs of her ridiculous affectations, social-climbing aspirations and constant embarrassing attempts in company to show herself as an elegant, cultured sophisticate. He feels trapped in a relationship where, as he observes, a wife "does nothing to entitle her husband to divorce her, but a thousand things that entitle him to murder her".
Producers British & Dominions Film Corporation
Original title Canaries Sometimes Sing
Directors Tom Walls
Writers Frederick Lonsdale, W.P. Lipscomb

Cast

Tom Walls

as Geoffrey Lymes

Yvonne Arnaud

as Elma Melton

Cathleen Nesbitt

as Anne Lymes

Athole Stewart

as Ernest Melton