The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
Violet Loraine
Bessie Bolton
Gordon Harker
Bert Bolton
Kay Hammond
Pearl Bolton
John Mills
Fred Bolton
Drusilla Wills
Mrs. Wigglesworth
Walter Sondes
Harold Hogarth
Glennis Lorimer
Maud
Anthony Holles
Guidobaldi
Joyce Kirby
Joan
Gibb McLaughlin
Westerbrook
Grethe Hansen
Gwen
Wally Patch
Harry
Ernest Sefton
Publicity Man
Jane Cornell
Fay
Cecil Ramage
Producer
Ron Johnson
Dirt Track Rider
Gus Kuhn
Dirt Track Rider
Colin Watson
Dirt Track Rider
Tom Farndon
Dirt Track Rider
Claude Rye
Dirt Track Rider
Arthur Warwick
Dirt Track Rider
Roy Fox
Bandleader
Ian Wilson
George Turner
Pal
Director
Sinclair Hill
Theatre Play
Christine Jope-Slade
Theatre Play
Sewell Stokes
Writer
Ralph Stock
Writer
G.H. Moresby-White
August 29, 2022
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This is actually quite a cheery little feature that sees fish and chip shop owner "Bessie" (established theatre star Violet Loraine) aspire to become a film star. Fat chance thinks you! Well, as it happens she has a decent enough singing voice and when she is "discovered" by a local studio, her life with family "Bert" (Gordon Harker), "Pearl" (Kay Hammond) and "Fred" (John Mills) is suddenly all topsy-turvy. What makes this a little more memorable is that it demonstrates to an audience just how films were put together then - the filming, audio, lighting - and film was expensive stuff so much of this was live! Harker and Loraine have a conviviality to their characters that lends well to the gentle comedy very much of it's time: an amiable English combination of stoicism and opportunity - with a solid supporting cast. It has a charm to it this. That doesn't make it memorable or really even very good, but it had a job to do in 1930s Britain and I suspect it did it well enough to pack out the houses for eighty minutes on a Saturday afternoon.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00