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The Love Match
''The Love Match'' is a 1955 British black and white comedy film directed by David Paltenghi and starring Arthur Askey, Glenn Melvyn, Thora Hird and Shirley Eaton. A football-mad railway engine driver and his fireman are desperate to get back in time to see a match. It was based on the 1953 play by Glenn Melvyn, one of the stars of the film. A TV spin-off series ''Love and Kisses'', appeared later in 1955. Cast * Arthur Askey as Bill Brown * Glenn Melvyn as Wally Binns * Thora Hird as Sal Brown * Shirley Eaton as Rose Brown * James Kenney as Percy Brown * Edward Chapman as Mr. Longworth * Danny Ross as Alf Hall * Robb Wilton as Mr. Muddlecombe * Anthea Askey as Vera * Patricia Hayes as Emma Binns * Iris Vandeleur as Mrs. Entwhistle * William Franklyn as Arthur Ford * Leonard Williams as Aggressive Man * Peter Swanwick as Mr. Hall * Dorothy Blythe as Waitress * Reginald Hearne as Police Constable Wilfred * Maurice Kaufmann as Harry Longworth * Janet Davies as Motorist Rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Paltenghi
David Paltenghi (1919 – 4 February 1961) was a British ballet dancer, choreographer, director and film director. Early life David Paltenghi was born in 1919 in Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset), the son of a Swiss-Italian father and English mother. Career Dancer He was a dancer with Ballet Rambert, until joining Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1941. Paltenghi created leading roles in Robert Helpmann's ''Miracle in the Gorbals'' in 1944 and '' Adam Zero'' in 1946, both for Sadler's Wells Ballet. Choreographer In 1950, he rejoined Ballet Rambert as a guest artist, and as a choreographer, created five ballets from 1950-51. The last was ''Canterbury Prologue'', based on Chaucer's ''Canterbury Tales'' with music by Peter Racine Fricker and designs by the artist Edward Burra, who he had met when they both worked on ''Miracle in the Gorbals''. Film director Paltenghi later became a film director, and his 1955 ''The Love Match'' starring Arthur Askey was praised, "gets the utmost out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthea Askey
Anthea Shirley Askey (2 March 1933 – 28 February 1999) was an English actress, particularly prominent on television in the 1950s. Anthea Askey was born in Golders Green, north London, to the comedian and actor Arthur Askey, and his wife Elizabeth May Swash. She featured in many television roles alongside her father. Her early television appearances included '' Love and Kisses'', where she played Rose Brown, whose father Bill was played by her father; while other TV and films include ''The Love Match'', ''Ramsbottom Rides Again'', ''Before Your Very Eyes'', ''Living It Up'', ''The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour'', ''Arthur's Treasured Volumes'' and a cameo appearance in ''Make Mine a Million'' in 1959. In 1993, she appeared in ''Climb the Greasy Pole: Part 1'', an episode of '' The Darling Buds of May''. Askey died in Worthing, West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By David Paltenghi
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
