Everybody Dance (film)
Everybody Dance | |
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Directed by | Charles Reisner |
Screenplay by | |
Based on | a story by Leslie Arliss & Stafford Dickens |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Jack Cox |
Edited by | R.E. Dearing |
Music by | Words & music: Mack Gordon Harry Revel Musical director: Louis Levy |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors |
Release dates |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Everybody Dance is a 1936 British musical film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Ernest Truex, Percy Parsons and Alma Taylor.[1] The film's sets were designed by Alex Vetchinsky. It was made at Islington Studios.[2]
Plot[]
When a successful nightclub singer (Cicely Courtneidge) finds herself guardian to her late sisters children, she ditches her singing career and takes the kids to live on a farm. Her manager is less than happy and resorts to legal means to try and stop her.
Cast[]
- Cicely Courtneidge as Katharine 'Lady Kate' Levering
- Ernest Truex as Wilbur Spurgeon
- Percy Parsons as Josiah Spurgeon
- Alma Taylor as Rosemary Spurgeon
- Chuck Reisner Jr. as Tony Spurgeon
- Billie De la Volta as Shirley Spurgeon
- Kathleen Harrison as Lucy
- Bruce Winston as Pierre
- C. Denier Warren as Dan Fleming
- Peter Gawthorne as Sir Rowland Morton
- Helen Haye as Lady Morton
- Janet Johnson as Lilian Morton
- Joan Ponsford as Dorothy Morton
References[]
- ^ "Everybody Dance (1936) - Charles "Chuck" Riesner - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | EVERYBODY DANCE (1936)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
Bibliography[]
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1936 films
- English-language films
- British films
- British musical films
- 1936 musical films
- Gainsborough Pictures films
- Islington Studios films
- Films directed by Charles Reisner
- British black-and-white films
- Films set in London
- British musical film stubs