---
title: 'The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1919)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Henry Edwards'
released: '1919-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-city-of-beautiful-nonsense-1919'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247249/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1919)

1919 · Drama, Romance · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

City of Beautiful Nonsense is a 1919 British silent film drama directed by Henry Edwards, who also starred in the film with Chrissie White. The film is based on the best-selling 1909 novel of the same name by E. Temple Thurston, and is a tale of a woman intending to marry for financial gain and security, who realises at the last minute that to be true to herself and to have the prospect of a happy future she must instead marry for love. A sound version of the same story was made in 1935 by Adrian Brunel.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Henry Edwards](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-edwards)
- **Screenplay:** [Ernest Charles Temple Thurston](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-charles-temple-thurston)
- **Producer:** [Cecil Hepworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-hepworth)

## Cast

- [Chrissie White](https://cinepixo.com/people/chrissie-white)

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