1920 movie biography hitchcock

1925 film by Alfred Hitchcock

The Pleasure Garden is a 1926 British–German silentdrama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his feature film directorial debut. Based on the 1923 novel of the same name by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships.^[2]

Plot

Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr.

Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre. The letter and all her money are stolen from her handbag as she waits to see him. Patsy, a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden, sees her difficulty and offers to take her to her own lodgings and to try to get her a job.

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Next morning Jill is successful in getting a part in the show. Her fiancé, Hugh, arrives with a colleague called Levet. Hugh and Patsy become very close while Jill is being pursued by a number of rich men, eventually breaking up with Hugh in order to begin Alfred Hitchcock: The Life Story You May Not Know | Stacker LEHO