Trottie True is a 1949 British musical comedy film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Jean Kent, James Donald and Hugh Sinclair.

Trottie True is a Gaiety Girl of the 1890s who, after a brief romance with a balloonist, marries Lord Digby Landon, becoming Duchess of Wellwater when he succeeds to the dukedom.

But Trottie is also dining there, with an old beau, having invited him after they innocently met in Hyde Park, London, after years of separation.

The film is set as Trottie looks back over her past, whilst staring out of a window at a wedding, and pondering her future.

[1] Hugh Stewart read the book at the suggestion of Dennis Freeman and succeeded in setting up the project at Rank.

[4] Stewart says that several directors were considered, including Harold French, before Brian Desmond Hurst was chosen.

So I had to devise ways to keep moving all the time so they couldn't get the scissors in, particularly during the Marie Lloyd number in the ballroom scene after I'd become the duchess.

[11] The New York Times described the film as "the professional and romantic rise of Trottie True as depicted in The Gay Lady, which arrived from England at the Sixtieth Street Trans-Lux on Saturday.

But this Technicolored rags to riches ascent, which is interlarded with song and dance turns, is something less than original and rarely sprightly.

"[13] The New York Times called it "a typical Gay nineties success story" that "amuses but never convulses the reader.