Eliot Crawshay-Williams

Movies

The Night at the Hotel
Novel
In a palace on the Côte d'Azur, a whole fauna evolves: a colonel who cheats on his wife, the colonel's daughter who flirts with Fred, Fred's friend, Emmanuel, who is in love with Marion, and Marion who kills himself. believing that Emmanuel does not forgive him for having, out of idleness, yielded to Fred one day.
Service for Ladies
Writer
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
Man of Mayfair
Writer
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
Fascination
Theatre Play
Madeleine Carroll stars as a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple, in this light-hearted melodrama from Miles Mander.
Cupboard Love
Scenario Writer
A young woman locks an intruding blackmailer in her bedroom closet overnight, in order to prove her innocence in the morning.