''Kicking the Moon Around'' is a 1938 British
musical
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comedy film
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directed by
Walter Forde
Walter Forde (born Thomas Seymour Woolford, 21 April 1898 – 7 January 1984) was a British actor, screenwriter and Film director, director. Born in Lambeth, south London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the silent era ...
and starring
Bert Ambrose
Benjamin Baruch Ambrose (11 September 1896 – 11 June 1971), known professionally as Ambrose or Bert Ambrose, was an English bandleader and violinist. Ambrose became the leader of a highly acclaimed British dance band, ''Bert Ambrose & His Orc ...
,
Evelyn Dall
Evelyn Dall (born Evelyn Mildred Fuss; January 8, 1918 – March 10, 2010) was an American singer and actress.
Career
Born in The Bronx, New York City as Evelyn Mildred Fuss, she took her stage name from the surname of two grandchildren of P ...
and
Harry Richman
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.
The film marked Maureen O'Hara's screen debut; she appeared very briefly, speaking one line.
Plot summary
In an effort to discover whether his
fiancee
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is a
gold digger
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Etymology and usage
The term "gold ...
, a millionaire's son pretends to have lost all of his money.
Cast
*
Bert Ambrose
Benjamin Baruch Ambrose (11 September 1896 – 11 June 1971), known professionally as Ambrose or Bert Ambrose, was an English bandleader and violinist. Ambrose became the leader of a highly acclaimed British dance band, ''Bert Ambrose & His Orc ...
and his orchestra - Themselves
*
Evelyn Dall
Evelyn Dall (born Evelyn Mildred Fuss; January 8, 1918 – March 10, 2010) was an American singer and actress.
Career
Born in The Bronx, New York City as Evelyn Mildred Fuss, she took her stage name from the surname of two grandchildren of P ...
- Pepper Martin
*
Harry Richman
Harry Richman (born Henry Reichman Jr.; August 10, 1895 – November 3, 1972) was an American singer, actor, dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and nightclub performer, at his most popular in the 1920s and 1930s. In his peak yea ...
- Harry
*
Florence Desmond
Florence Dawson (31 May 1905 – 16 January 1993), better known by her stage name Florence Desmond, was an English actress, comedian and impersonator.
Biography
Early life and career
Born in London in 1905, Desmond was educated at the Dame A ...
- Flo Hadley
* Hal Thompson - Bobbie Hawkes
*
C. Denier Warren
Charles Denier Warren (29 July 1889 – 27 August 1971) was an Anglo-American actor who appeared extensively on stage and screen from the early 1930s to late 1960s, mostly in Great Britain.
Life
He was born in Chicago the son of Charles Warren ...
- Mark Browd
* Leslie Carew - Streamline
*
Julian Vedey - Herbert Stoker
*
Max Bacon
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- Gus
*
Davy Burnaby
George Davy Burnaby (7 April 1881 – 18 April 1949) was a British actor who appeared in more than thirty films between 1929 and 1948. He was born in Buckland, Hertfordshire and made his screen debut in the 1929 film ''The Devil's Maze''. He die ...
- Magistrate
*
George Carney
George Carney (21 November 1887 – 9 December 1947) was a British comedian and film actor.
Born in Bristol, he worked in the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, in a furniture business, then in the Belfast shipyards. In 1906 he made his debut stage ...
- Constable Truscott
*
Edward Rigby
Edward Coke MC (5 February 1879 – 5 April 1951), known professionally as Edward Rigby, was a British character actor.
Early life
Rigby was born at Ashford, Kent, England, the second son of Dr William Harriott Coke and his wife, Mary Elizab ...
- Professor Scattlebury
*
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara (; 17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was a native Irish and naturalized American actress and singer, who became successful in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural ...
- Secretary
References
External links
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1938 films
British musical comedy films
1938 musical comedy films
Films directed by Walter Forde
Films shot at Pinewood Studios
British black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
1930s British films
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