The Village Squire is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Reginald Denham and included which star, who was an English stage and film actress, and won two Academy Awards for Best Actress?
The Village Squire The Village Squire is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Reginald Denham and starring David Horne, Leslie Perrins, Moira Lynd and Vivien Leigh. It was based on a play by Arthur Jarvis Black. A village's amateur production of "MacBeth" is aided by the arrival of a Hollywood star. This provokes the fierce resistance of the village squire who hates films.
Mary Eaton Mary Eaton (January 29, 1901 – October 10, 1948) was a leading American stage actress, singer, and dancer in the 1910s and 1920s. A professional performer since childhood, she enjoyed success in stage productions such as the "Ziegfeld Follies" and early sound films such as "Glorifying the American Girl" and "The Cocoanuts," but found her career in sharp decline by the mid-1930s. A battle with alcoholism led to her death in 1948 from liver failure.