''Harmony Heaven'' is a 1930
British
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Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
musical film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks ...
directed by
Thomas Bentley
Thomas Bentley (23 February 1884 – 23 December 1966) was a British film director. He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, ''The Man in the Street'' (1926), '' ...
and starring
Polly Ward
Polly Ward (born Byno Poluski; 30 June 1912–23 February 1987) was a British singer and actress.
Filmography
* ''The Marriage Business'' (1927)
* '' Alf's Button'' (1930)
* ''Harmony Heaven'' (1930)
* '' His Lordship'' (1932)
* '' Kentucky Mins ...
, Stuart Hall and
Trilby Clark
Trilby Clark (born Gwendolyn Gladys Blakely Clark; 30 August 1896 – 7 July 1983) was an Australian actress who appeared in British films beginning in the silent film era. She was a lead role, leading lady in British films during the 1920s and ...
. This film had
Pathechrome inserts, and was one of Britain's first two musical films, along with
''Raise the Roof''.
[Barrios p.211]
It 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 ...
with sets designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
John Mead.
Cast
*
Polly Ward
Polly Ward (born Byno Poluski; 30 June 1912–23 February 1987) was a British singer and actress.
Filmography
* ''The Marriage Business'' (1927)
* '' Alf's Button'' (1930)
* ''Harmony Heaven'' (1930)
* '' His Lordship'' (1932)
* '' Kentucky Mins ...
as Billie Breeze
* Stuart Hall as Bob Farrell
*
Trilby Clark
Trilby Clark (born Gwendolyn Gladys Blakely Clark; 30 August 1896 – 7 July 1983) was an Australian actress who appeared in British films beginning in the silent film era. She was a lead role, leading lady in British films during the 1920s and ...
as Lady Violet Mistley
*
Jack Raine
Thomas Foster "Jack" Raine (18 May 1897 – 30 May 1979) was an English stage, television and film actor.
He was a leading man of the British cinema in the late twenties and early thirties in such films as ''The Hate Ship'' (1929), '' Raise the ...
as Stuart
*
Philip Hewland
Philip Hewland (12 December 1876, Gravesend, Kent, England – 1953, Ealing, London) was a British actor. He had one son Ivor and a granddaughter Domini.
Selected filmography
* '' The Christian'' (1915)
* '' His Daughter's Dilemma'' (1916)
* ''Ar ...
as Beasley Cutting
*
Percy Standing
Percy Standing (26 October 1882 – 17 September 1950) was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 42 films between 1913 and 1934. He was born in Lambeth, London and died in Placer County, California.
Selected filmography ...
as Producer
* Gus Sharland as Stage Manager
*
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 Suggs
* Edna Prince as The Singer
See also
*
List of early color feature films
This is a list of early feature-length color films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major-studio fa ...
Bibliography
* Barrios, Richard. ''A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film''. Oxford University Press, 2010.
References
External links
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1930 films
1930s color films
1930s English-language films
1930 musical films
British musical films
Films shot at British International Pictures Studios
Films directed by Thomas Bentley
British black-and-white films
1930s British films
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