Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "music hall performer"

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The Lady Craved Excitement ** (1950, Hy Hazell, Michael Medwin, Sidney James, Thelma Grigg, Andrew Keir, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 11,036

Director Francis Searle’s 1950 British low-budget black and white Hammer Films production The Lady Craved Excitement is a fairly ordinary, though not too dull Fifties British B-movie comedy mystery thriller, in which the irrepressibly bubbly, […]

Mar, 22

Shipyard Sally *** (1939, Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard, Morton Selten, Norma Varden) – Classic Movie Review 8430

Director Monty Banks’s lively 1939 British musical comedy Shipyard Sally stars Gracie Fields as failed music-hall singer Sally Fitzgerald, who takes charge of the saloon her father Major Fitzgerald (Sydney Howard) has bought near the John […]

May, 03

The Entertainer ***** (1960, Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 2527

Director Tony Richardson’s superlative 1960 film version of one of John Osborne’s finest theatre plays The Entertainer has the enormous advantage of encouraging Laurence Olivier to record for posterity one of his greatest stage appearances – […]

May, 27

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