Violet Loraine

Gordon Harker

Kay Hammond

John Mills

Drusilla Wills

Walter Sondes

Glennis Lorimer

Anthony Holles

Joyce Kirby

Gibb McLaughlin

Grethe Hansen

Wally Patch

Ernest Sefton

Jane Cornell

Cecil Ramage

Ron Johnson

Gus Kuhn

Colin Watson

Tom Farndon

Claude Rye

Arthur Warwick

Roy Fox

Ian Wilson

George Turner

Sinclair Hill

Alfred Junge

Christine Jope-Slade

G.H. Moresby-White

Sewell Stokes

Michael Balcon

Mutz Greenbaum

Gordon Conway

Ralph Stock

Fredrick Y. Smith

Bill Salter

Comedy

Music

Drama

Britannia of Billingsgate

Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

United Kingdom

English

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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.

Britannia of Billingsgate

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