Lady Conan Doyle Visits Gainsborough
Lady Conan Doyle (centre) at the Gainsborough Studios, where her husband's story, "The Hound of the Baskervilles," is being directed by Gareth Gundry (seated left). In the cast are John Stuart (centre), Fredk. Lloyd (left); Henry Hallett (right); and Sybil Jane (seated next to Lady Doyle).
Lady Conan Doyle Visits Gainsborough is an article published in The Bioscope on 4 february 1931.
Lady Conan Doyle visited Gainsborough Studios in early 1931 to watch The Hound of the Baskervilles movie while it was still in production, before its 1932 release.
Lady Conan Doyle Visits Gainsborough
Lady Conan Doyle at Islington
Met Lady Conan Doyle, who was an interested spectator of the filming of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" at Islington last week. Lady Doyle had with her her two sons, Adrian and Dennis, and expressed pleasure that several of her husband's "Sherlock Holmes" stories have recently been filmed in England. This was, however, Lady Doyle's first visit to a British studio, though while on a tour with Sir Arthur — no one ever heard him referred to by his friends as "the late" — she saw inside several American studios.
Lady Doyle and I had a long talk on her own special subject, during the course of which she referred to the striking British Movietone picture taken a few days previously, of Mrs. Muerig Morris, the young trance spiritualist. Lady Doyle impresses one as having a calm and critical mind; even Dean Inge could scarcely describe her fairly as "unbalanced" or "neurotic." She seems to have her feet very firmly on earth; but all the same, makes bold claims for her Cause. I am not sure that Lady Doyle could not herself write some fascinating material for the screen.
