''Chick'' is a 1936 British
comedy
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crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Michael Hankinson
Michael Kyrle le Fleming Hankinson (11 February 1905 –) was a British screenwriter, film editor and film director, director. He wrote and directed the 1936 crime film ''Ticket of Leave (film), Ticket of Leave'' for Paramount British.Low p.399 D ...
and starring
Sydney Howard,
Betty Ann Davies
Betty Ann Davies (24 December 1910 – 14 May 1955) was a British stage and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1950s. Davies made her first stage appearance at the Palladium in a revue in 1924. The following year she joined Cochran's Youn ...
and
Fred Conyngham
Fred Conyngham (June 8, 1901 – May 8, 1974) was an Australian actor from Sydney.
He was the son of George Conyngham, an actor and stage manager. The younger Conyngham began his career as a specialty dancer. He left musical comedy for drama; ...
. It is based on the 1923 novel of the same title by
Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer.
Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during th ...
, which had previously been made into a
1928 silent film. The film was made at
Elstree Studios
Elstree Studios is a generic term which can refer to several current and demolished British film studios and television studios based in or around the town of Borehamwood and village of Elstree in Hertfordshire, England. Production studios ha ...
.
[Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986. p. 89.] The hall porter at an
Oxbridge
Oxbridge is a portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most famous universities in the United Kingdom. The term is used to refer to them collectively, in contrast to other British universities, and more broadly to de ...
College inherits an
Earldom
Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. The title originates in the Old English word ''eorl'', meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form ''jarl'', and meant "chieftain", particular ...
and enjoys a series of adventures.
Cast
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Sydney Howard as Chick Beane
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Betty Ann Davies
Betty Ann Davies (24 December 1910 – 14 May 1955) was a British stage and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1950s. Davies made her first stage appearance at the Palladium in a revue in 1924. The following year she joined Cochran's Youn ...
as Peggy
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Fred Conyngham
Fred Conyngham (June 8, 1901 – May 8, 1974) was an Australian actor from Sydney.
He was the son of George Conyngham, an actor and stage manager. The younger Conyngham began his career as a specialty dancer. He left musical comedy for drama; ...
as Sir Anthony Monsard
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Cecil Humphreys
Cecil Humphreys (1883–1947) was a British film and theatre actor who played in 46 films between 1916 and 1948, mostly in supporting roles as doctors, aristocrats, and generals. Among his best-known roles were Judge Linton, in the 1939 version ...
as Sturgis
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Mae Bacon
Mae Bacon (1897–1981) was a British actress. She was often credited as Mai Bacon. She was the eldest daughter of Hartley Bacon, who was living in Roundhay, Leeds at the time of The Great War.
Early acting career
During the early stages of Worl ...
as Gert
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Wallace Geoffrey
Wallace Geoffrey was a British writer and actor.
Partial filmography
Actor
* ''Brown Sugar'' (1931)
* '' The House Opposite'' (1931)
* '' The Flying Fool'' (1931)
* '' Detective Lloyd'', a serial
* '' Life Goes On'' (1932)
* ''Aren't We All?'' (1 ...
as Latimer
*
Aubrey Mather
Aubrey Mather (17 December 1885 – 16 January 1958) was an English character actor.
Career
Mather was born in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, and began his career on the stage in 1905. He debuted in London in '' Brewster's Millions'' in ...
as The Dean
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Arthur Chesney
Arthur William Kellaway (21 November 1881 – 27 August 1949), known as Arthur Chesney, was an English character actor who worked on stage and screen.
Biography
He was born 21 November 1881 in Hampstead, London, the son of John and Catherine K ...
as Lord Frensham
*Edmund D'Alby as Rennie
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Robert Nainby
Robert Nainby (1869–1948) was an Irish male actor.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1869 births
1948 deaths
Male actors from Dublin (city)
Irish male film actors
20th-century Irish male actors
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as Mr. Beane
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Merle Tottenham
Merle Tottenham (22 January 1901 – 18 July 1958) was a British stage and film actress. Her stage work included the original West End production of Noël Coward's ''Cavalcade'' in 1931; and she reprised her role as Annie the servant in the su ...
as Maid
*
Aubrey Fitzgerald
Aubrey Fitzgerald (1874–1968) was a British actor.
In 1909 he played El Tabloid in '' A Persian Princess'' at the Queen's Theatre in London.
Selected filmography
* ''One Arabian Night'' (1923)
* '' Little Miss Nobody'' (1923)
* ''Hutch Stirs ...
as Banks
*
Fred Rains
Frederick William Rains (c. 1860 – 3 December 1945) was a British actor and film director. He was the father of the actor Claude Rains.
Selected filmography
Actor
* '' The Broken Melody'' (1916)
* '' The New Clown'' (1916)
* ''The Marriag ...
as Warden
*Eric Micklewood as Undergraduate
*Joe Monkhouse as Mason
*Richard Morris as Clerk
*Aubrey Pollock as Lawyer
References
Bibliography
*Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. .
External links
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British crime comedy films
British black-and-white films
1930s crime comedy films
Films directed by Michael Hankinson
Films shot at Station Road Studios, Elstree
Films set in England
Films based on British novels
Films based on works by Edgar Wallace
Remakes of British films
Sound film remakes of silent films
British and Dominions Studios films
1936 comedy films
Films scored by Percival Mackey
1930s British films
1930s English-language films
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