The Man Who Loved Redheads

The Man Who Loved Redheads is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Moira Shearer, John Justin and Roland Culver. The film is based on the play Who is Sylvia? (1950) by Terence Rattigan, which is reputedly a thinly veiled account of the author's philandering father. The film follows the play fairly closely, its main difference being the turning of Sylvia into a redhead. The film contains a ballet sequence featuring extracts from The Sleeping Beauty, which was decorated by Loudon Sainthill. Plot Young peer and junior member of the Foreign Office, Mark St. Neots (John Justin), is obsessed with the memory of Sylvia (Moira Shearer), a 16-year-old redhead he met at a party as a boy, and vowed he would love forever. Now older and respectably married, Mark still retains his image of the beautiful young girl with the red hair, and spends the rest of his life searching for her, through a string of casual affairs. Cast Moira Shearer as Sylvia / Daphne / Olga / Colette John Justin as Mark St. Neots, Lord Binfield Roland Culver as Oscar Gladys Cooper as Caroline, Lady Binfield Denholm Elliott as Dennis Harry Andrews as Williams Patricia Cutts as Bubbles Moyra Fraser as Ethel John Hart as Sergei Joan Benham as Chloe Jeremy Spenser as Young Mark Melvyn Hayes as Sydney Kenneth More as Narrator (voice)