''Men of Yesterday'' is a 1936 British
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
John Baxter and starring
Stewart Rome,
Sam Livesey
Samuel Livesey (14 October 1873 – 7 November 1936) was a Welsh stage and film actor.
Life
Livesey's father, Thomas, had been a railway engineer before leaving the industry to establish a travelling theatre with his wife Mary.
The two had six ...
and
Hay Petrie
David Hay Petrie (16 July 1895 – 30 July 1948) was a Scottish actor noted for playing eccentric characters, among them Quilp in ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' (1934), the McLaggen in ''The Ghost Goes West'' (1935) and Uncle Pumblechook in '' Great ...
.
[Shafer p.173] It was made at
Shepperton Studios
Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England, with a history dating back to 1931. It is now part of the Pinewood Studios Group. During its early existence, the studio was branded as Sound City (not to be confused w ...
with sets designed by
John Bryan. The screenplay concerns an ex-army officer who organises a gathering of his former comrades while at the same time confronting a personal crisis.
Cast
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Stewart Rome as Major Radford
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Sam Livesey
Samuel Livesey (14 October 1873 – 7 November 1936) was a Welsh stage and film actor.
Life
Livesey's father, Thomas, had been a railway engineer before leaving the industry to establish a travelling theatre with his wife Mary.
The two had six ...
*
Hay Petrie
David Hay Petrie (16 July 1895 – 30 July 1948) was a Scottish actor noted for playing eccentric characters, among them Quilp in ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' (1934), the McLaggen in ''The Ghost Goes West'' (1935) and Uncle Pumblechook in '' Great ...
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Eve Lister
Eve Lister (1913 – 1997) was a British film and television actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern medi ...
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Cecil Parker
Cecil Parker (born Cecil Schwabe, 3 September 1897 – 20 April 1971) was an English actor with a distinctively husky voice, who usually played supporting roles, often characters with a supercilious demeanour, in his 91 films made between ...
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Roddy Hughes
Rhodri Henry Hughes (19 June 1891 – 22 February 1970) was a Welsh theatre, film and television actor, who appeared in over 80 films between 1932 and 1961.
Selected filmography
* ''Mr. Bill the Conqueror'' (1932)
* ''Reunion'' (1932)
* '' Say ...
*
Ian Colin
Ian Colin (1912–1987) was a British film and television actor. During the 1930s, Colin was a leading man in Quota quickies. He later acted predominantly in television shows such as ''The Quatermass Experiment'', ''Emergency-Ward 10'' and ''Coro ...
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George Robey
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*
Will Fyffe
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Ella Shields
Ella Shields (27 September 1879 – 5 August 1952) was a music hall singer and male-impersonator. Her famous signature song, " Burlington Bertie from Bow", a parody of Vesta Tilley's " Burlington Bertie", written by her manager and first husba ...
* Dick Henderson
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Edgar Norfolk
Edgar Norfolk (5 November 1893 – 1980) was a British actor.
Norfolk was born Edgar Greenwood. He was the first husband of the actress Helen Saintsbury (a daughter of the actor H.A. Saintsbury); her second husband, Captain Buckley Rutherford, a ...
* Dick Francis
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Frederick Culley
Frederick Culley (8 March 1879 – 3 November 1942) was a British film actor. He is best remembered as the kindly Dr. Sutton in ''The Four Feathers'' (1939). His Father, Richard Palethorpe Culley, was an entrepreneur and philanthropist and his ...
* Freddie Watts
*
Patric Curwen
Patric Curwen (14 December 1884 – 31 May 1949) was a British stage and film actor.
Biography
Curwen, son of John Spencer Curwen of the music publishing company, and grandson of John Curwen, founder of the Tonic sol-fa system, was educated at A ...
* Stanley Kirby
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Vi Kaley
Vi Kaley, (19 November 1878, Lambeth - 1967, Marylebone), was a British actress. She was married to Alfred Artois.
Partial filmography
* '' Lloyd of the C.I.D.'' (1932)
* ''A Royal Demand'' (1933)
* ''Gay Old Dog'' (1935)
* '' The Man Without a F ...
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Ernest Jay
Ernest Jay (18 September 1893 – 8 February 1957) was a British actor.
Selected filmography
* '' My Lucky Star'' (1933) - Press Agent
* ''Tiger Bay'' (1934) - Alf
* '' The Iron Duke'' (1934) - First Orderly
* '' The Phantom Light'' (1935) ...
* John Hepworth
* Henry Hepworth
* J. Neil More
* Gustave Ferrari
* Denis Hayden
* Terry Doyle
*
Barbara Everest
Barbara Everest (19 June 1890 – 9 February 1968) was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film ''The Man Without a Soul''. On stage she played Queen Anne in the 1935 his ...
References
Bibliography
* Shaefer, Stephen. ''British Popular Films 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance''. Routledge, 2003.
*Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927–1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
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1936 films
1936 drama films
1930s English-language films
British drama films
Films set in England
Films shot at Shepperton Studios
Films directed by John Baxter
British black-and-white films
1930s British films
English-language drama films
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