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Sing As You Swing
''Sing as You Swing'' is a 1937 British musical film directed by Redd Davis and starring Charles Clapham, Bill Dwyer and Claude Dampier. It was made as a quota quickie and features turns from a variety of radio and revue stars with little background narrative.Chibnall p.291 The film's sets were designed by the art director George Provis. It was shot at Joe Rock's Elstree Studios. Cast * Charles Clapham as Himself * Bill Dwyer as Himself * Claude Dampier as Pomphrey Featherstone-Chaw * Billie Carlyle as Telephone Operator * The Mills Brothers as Themselves * Evelyn Dall as Cora Fane * Mantovani as Himself * Lu Ann Meredith as Sally Bevan * Brian Lawrance as Jimmy King * Carol Chilton as Herself * Maceo Thomas as Himself * Nat Gonella and His Georgians as Themselves * Beryl Orde as Herself * H. F. Maltby as Drake * Edward Ashley as Harrington * Rio & Santos as Themselves * Jimmy Godden * Eric Maturin * The Sherman Fisher Girls as Themselves References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redd Davis
Redd Davis (1896–?) was a Canadian film director and producer who directed more than twenty films between 1932 and 1942. He was born in Canada in 1896, but he moved to Britain where he directed his first film '' The Spare Room'' in 1932. He worked mainly at Twickenham Studios in west London. In 1937 he directed '' Underneath the Arches'' his most successful film. Selected filmography * ''Here's George'' (1932) * '' The Spare Room'' (1932) * '' The Medicine Man'' (1933) * '' Excess Baggage'' (1933) * ''Ask Beccles'' (1933) * ''Send 'em Back Half Dead'' (1933) * '' The Umbrella'' (1933) * ''Easy Money'' (1934) * ''The Girl in the Flat'' (1934) * '' Seeing Is Believing'' (1934) * '' Say It with Diamonds'' (1935) * '' On Top of the World'' (1936) * '' King of the Castle'' (1936) * ''Calling All Ma's'' (1937) * ''Sing as You Swing'' (1937) * '' Underneath the Arches'' (1937) * ''Anything to Declare?'' (1938) * ''Special Edition'' (1938) * '' Discoveries'' (1939) * ''That's the Ticke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Provis
George Provis (1901–1989) was a British art director who worked on over a hundred films during a lengthy career. He began his career working on quota quickies during the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures.Spicer p.99 Selected filmography * ''The Man Behind the Mask'' (1936) * '' One Good Turn'' (1936) * ''Cotton Queen'' (1937) * ''Sing as You Swing'' (1937) * ''Rhythm Serenade'' (1943) * ''He Snoops to Conquer'' (1944) * '' This Man Is Mine'' (1946) * ''Holiday Camp'' (1947) * ''A Boy, a Girl and a Bike'' (1949) * ''The Bad Lord Byron'' (1949) * '' Diamond City'' (1949) * ''So Long at the Fair'' (1950) * ''Madame Louise'' (1951) * '' The Beachcomber'' (1954) * ''The Black Tent'' (1956) * ''Two Letter Alibi'' (1962) * ''Night of the Prowler'' (1962) * ''Tarzan Goes to India'' (1962) * ''Hide and Seek'' (1963) * ''Do You Know This Voice?'' (1964) * ''The Eyes of Annie Jones'' (1964) * ''A Jolly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Maturin
Eric Bagot Maturin (30 May 1883 – 17 October 1957) was a British actor whose acting career began in 1905 and whose first film appearance was in 1919 during the era of silent films. Early life Maturin was born in Nainital, India in 1883,Maturin on the the oldest of three sons born to Edith Emily (née Money; 1863–1945) and Colonel Frederick Henry Maturin (1848–1936) of the , who married on 1 August 1882 at St Andrew's church in |
Jimmy Godden
Jimmy Godden (11 August 1879 – 5 March 1955) was a British film actor. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and was in the Civil Service before becoming a concert pianist. Godden later turned to the stage and made his debut in pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, then going on to the London West End doing a number of comedies and revues. Filmography * ''Big Business'' (1930) – Oppenheimer * ''The Wife's Family'' (1931) – Doc Knott * ''The Last Coupon'' (1932) – Geordie Bates * '' His Wife's Mother'' (1932) – Mr. Trout * '' Money Talks'' (1932) – Joe Bell * '' For the Love of Mike'' (1932) – Henry Miller * ''Crime on the Hill'' (1933) – Landlord * '' Happy'' (1933) – Brummelberg * ''Their Night Out'' (1933) – Archibald Bunting * ''Meet My Sister'' (1933) – Pogson * ''Hawley's of High Street'' (1933) – Mayor * ''The Outcast'' (1934) – Harry * ''Those Were the Days'' (1934) – Pat Maloney * ''The Luck of a Sailor'' (1934) – Betz * '' Sometimes Goo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio & Santos
Rio or Río is the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Maltese word for "river". When spoken on its own, the word often means Rio de Janeiro, a major city in Brazil. Rio or Río may also refer to: Geography Brazil * Rio de Janeiro * Rio do Sul, a town in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil Mexico * Río Bec, a Mayan archaeological site in Mexico * Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, a city in Mexico United States * Rio, a location in Deerpark, New York, US * Rio, Florida, a census-designated place in Martin County, US * Rio, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Spalding County, US * Rio, Illinois, a village in Knox County, US * Rio, Virginia, a community in Albemarle County, US * Rio, West Virginia, a village in Hampshire County, US * Rio, Wisconsin, a village in Columbia County, US * El Río, Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, a barrio * Río Arriba, Añasco, Puerto Rico, a barrio * Río Arriba, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a barrio * Río Arriba, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a barrio * Río Arriba, Vega Baj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Ashley
Edward Montague Hussey Cooper (August 12, 1906 – May 5, 2000) was an Australian born actor, later active in Britain and the United States. Known by his professional name of Edward Ashley (to avoid confusion with a fellow actor Edward Cooper), Cooper performed in 60 films for Metro Goldwyn Mayer including ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1940) where he played George Wickham. Origins Edward Montague Hussey Cooper was born on 12 August 1906 California, County of San Diego, Death Certificate #3 200037 007441; known as Edward A. Cooper aSocial Security Death Index site/ref> in Sydney, Australia, the Passenger Manifest, SS Mostun, Rotterdam – San Pedro, California, 29 August 1939 son of Edward Montague Hussey Cooper and Violet Coghill Maddrell. His father, Edward (known as Montague) was a Master Mariner and a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, who worked as a second officer for the P&O Steam Navigation Company in Australia.''The Melbourne Argus'', 2 February 1927, page 18, Article: " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beryl Orde
Beryl ( ) is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2Si6O18. Well-known varieties of beryl include emerald and aquamarine. Naturally occurring, hexagonal crystals of beryl can be up to several meters in size, but terminated crystals are relatively rare. Pure beryl is colorless, but it is frequently tinted by impurities; possible colors are green, blue, yellow, pink, and red (the rarest). It is an ore source of beryllium. Etymology The word ''beryl'' – enm, beril – is borrowed, via fro, beryl and la, beryllus, from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος ''bḗryllos'', which referred to a 'precious blue-green color-of-sea-water stone'; from Prakrit ''veruḷiya'', ''veḷuriya'' 'beryl' (compare the pseudo-Sanskritization वैडूर्य ''vaiḍūrya'' 'cat's eye; jewel; lapis lazuli', traditionally explained as '(brought) from (the city of) Vidūra'), which is ultimately of Dravidian origin, maybe from the name of Belur or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Gonella
Nathaniel Charles Gonella (7 March 1908 – 6 August 1998) was an English jazz trumpeter, bandleader, vocalist, and mellophonist. He founded the big band The Georgians, during the British dance band era. Early life and career Gonella was born in Islington, North London, where he attended St Mary's Guardian School, an institution for underprivileged children, where he started playing cornet. After a short spell as a furrier's apprentice, his professional career began in 1924 when he joined Archie Pitt's Busby Boy's Band, a small pit orchestra and touring review band. During his four years with the band, he discovered the music of Louis Armstrong and dixieland jazz. He transcribed Armstrong's solos and learned them by heart. Beginning in 1928, Gonella spent a year in Bob Bryden's Louisville Band before working with Archie Alexander and Billy Cotton. Cotton's band allowed him to record his first solos and to explore scat singing. The 1930s He played briefly with Roy Fox in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maceo Thomas
Maceo may refer to: Places * Maceo, Antioquia, Colombia, a town and municipality * Maceo, Kentucky Maceo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 413. The community was founded by freed slaves just after the U.S. Civil War. In ..., an unincorporated community Other uses * Maceo (name) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Chilton
Carol Chilton Thomas Anthony (December 13, 1907 – October 27, 1996) was an American dancer, part of the duo Chilton and Thomas, with her husband Maceo Thomas. She danced in several films and stage productions, and was one of the "first American artists to be selected for the initial television broadcast in England." Early life and education Chilton was born in Chicago, the daughter of Newton T. Chilton and Lucille E. Bacon Chilton. Both parents were part of the Great Migration from the American South to Northern cities; her mother was a probation officer and her father was a carpenter. She trained as a dancer in Chicago. Career Chilton was performing as a dancer and singer in Chicago from her teens. She and Thomas began touring together as a "fancy dance act" by early 1927. They were often billed as "Creole dancers". Theirs are really winged feet," commented an Iowa newspaper in 1929. "That seems to be the only solution for the rapidity of their motion. They apparently d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lu Ann Meredith
Lu Ann Meredith (July 7, 1913November 12, 1998) was an American film actress. Picked as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1934, her career did not flourish unlike a number of other awardees such as Jean Arthur and Ginger Rogers.Mank p.254 She made a few appearances in British films, but by 1937 her film career had declined. She appeared in a total of nine films between 1934 and 1939 before retiring from acting. Filmography * '' Young and Beautiful'' (1934) * ''Whirlpool'' (1934) * ''Night Life of the Gods'' (1936) * '' Ball at Savoy'' (1936) * '' Sporting Love'' (1937) * ''Sing as You Swing ''Sing as You Swing'' is a 1937 British musical film directed by Redd Davis and starring Charles Clapham, Bill Dwyer and Claude Dampier. It was made as a quota quickie and features turns from a variety of radio and revue stars with little bac ...'' (1937) References Bibliography * Gregory William Mank. ''Women in Horror Films, 1930s''. McFarland, 2005. External links * 1913 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantovani
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (; 15 November 1905 – 29 March 1980) was an Anglo-Italian conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature. The book ''British Hit Singles & Albums'' stated that he was "Britain's most successful album act before the Beatles ... the first act to sell over one million stereo albums and avesix albums simultaneously in the US Top 30 in 1959". Biography Mantovani was born in Venice, Italy, into a musical family. His father, Benedetto Paolo "Bismarck" Mantovani, was a violinist and served as the concertmaster of La Scala opera house's orchestra in Milan, under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. The family moved to England in 1912, where young Annunzio studied at Trinity College of Music in London. After graduation, he formed his own orchestra, which played in and around Birmingham. He married Winifred Moss in 1934, having two children: Kenneth (born 12 July 1935) and Paula Irene (born 11 April 1939) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
