TY - ADVS AU - Asquith,Anthony AU - Denison,Michael AU - Evans,Edith AU - Greenwood,Joan AU - Frankel,Benjamin AU - Wilde,Oscar ED - Janus Films ED - J. Arthur Rank Film (Firm) ED - British Film Makers, ltd. ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) TI - The importance of being Earnest PY - 2002/// CY - [United States] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Wilde, Oscar, KW - Film adaptations KW - Feature films KW - Comedy films N1 - Based on the play by Oscar Wilde; Originally released as a motion picture in 1952; Features : rare production stills with notes by film historian Bruce Eder, original theatrical trailer; Director of photography, Desmond Dickinson ; camera, David Harcourt ; art director, Carmen Dillon ; film editor, John D. Guthridge ; music, Benjamin Frankel; Actors : Michael Denison, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Miles Malleson, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Rutherford, Dorothy Tutin N2 - A lovestruck suitor is put off when his fiancee announces she can only love a man named Earnest ER -