''Come Dance with Me'' is a 1950 British

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directed by

Mario Zampi Mario Zampi (1 November 19032 December 1963) was an Italian film producer and director. A co-founder of Two Cities Films, a British production company, he is most closely associated with British comedies of the 1950s. Biography Zampi began his ca ...

and starring

Max Wall Max Wall (12 March 1908 – 21 May 1990) was an English actor and comedian whose performing career covered music hall, films, television and theatre. Early years Wall was born Maxwell George Lorimer, son of the successful music hall entert ...

, Gordon Humphris and Yvonne Marsh. The film was made by Zampi's Anglofilm and largely consisted of

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acts.Harper & Porter p.165

Cast

- Manager * Gordon Humphris - Joe Smith - The Boy * Yvonne Marsh - The Girl * Barbara Hamilton - Kiki - Stage Girl *

Vincent Ball Vincent Martin Ball OAM (born 4 December 1923) is an Australian retired character actor of radio, stage and screen, active in the industry for nearly 55 years (with a brief return) firstly in Britain and then his native Australia. He has also ...

- Secretary *

Anton Karas Anton Karl Karas (7 July 1906 – 10 January 1985) was an Austrian zither player and composer, best known for his internationally famous 1948 soundtrack to Carol Reed's ''The Third Man''. His association with the film came about as a result of ...

- Himself * Anne Shelton - Herself *

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- Himself *

Stanley Black Stanley Black OBE (14 June 1913 – 27 November 2002) was an English bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist. He wrote and arranged many film scores, recording prolifically for the Decca label (including their subsidiaries ''Lond ...

and his orchestra

References

Bibliography

* Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. ''British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference''. Oxford University Press, 2007.

External links

* 1950 films 1950 musical films Films directed by Mario Zampi British musical films British black-and-white films 1950s English-language films 1950s British films English-language musical films {{UK-musical-film-stub