The Pleasure Garden (1925) on Netflix
Jill, a dancer, comes to London with an introduction letter for Mr. Hamilton at the Pleasure Garden Theatre. A thief takes it and her money. Patsy, a chorus girl, offers her lodgings.
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Plot summary
Jill Cheyne is a dancer who reaches London with a letter meant to introduce her to Mr. Hamilton, the proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre; while she waits to see him a thief empties her handbag of the letter and her money. Patsy Brand, a chorus girl at the theatre, notices her difficulty, offers her a bed at her own lodgings and tries to find her work, and the next morning Jill lands a part in the show. Jill's fiancé, Hugh Fielding, arrives in the city with a colleague named Levet. Wealthy admirers pursue Jill as her success grows, and Patsy and Hugh grow close.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Pleasure Garden (1925)
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- Producer Michael Balcon let Alfred Hitchcock direct The Pleasure Garden only after Graham Cutts, a jealous executive at Gainsborough Pictures, refused to let Hitchcock work on The Rat.
- Cinematographer Gaetano Ventimiglia failed to declare the film stock to Italian customs officials while making The Pleasure Garden, so the team had to pay fines and buy new film, seriously depleting its budget.
- In 2021 The Pleasure Garden became the first Hitchcock film to enter the public domain in the United States, after having been heavily bootlegged on home video.
- A new score for the film's restoration, by the British composer Daniel Patrick Cohen, has been performed live with The Pleasure Garden around the world but has never come out on home video because there was no money to record it.
