''Money for Nothing'' is a 1932 British
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Monty Banks
Montague (Monty) Banks (18 July 1897 – 7 January 1950), born Mario Bianchi, was a 20th century Italian-born American comedian, film actor, director and producer who achieved success in the UK and the United States.
Career
Banks was born Mario ...
and starring
Seymour Hicks
Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and p ...
,
Betty Stockfeld
Betty Stockfeld (15 January 190527 January 1966), often misspelled "Stockfield", was an Australian film actress. She appeared mostly in British and French films.
Betty was the daughter of Sydney businessman Harry Hooper Stockfeld and Susan Eli ...
and
Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1947), for which he won th ...
. It was produced by
British International Pictures
Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production, distribution and exhibition company active from 1927 until 1970 when it was absorbed into EMI. ABPC also owned appro ...
and shot at the company's
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 ...
near
London
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.
[Wood p.72] A French-language remake of the film ''
Love and Luck'', also directed by Banks, premiered later in the year.
Synopsis
The screenplay concerns a penniless gambler who is mistaken for a very wealthy man in
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo (; ; french: Monte-Carlo , or colloquially ''Monte-Carl'' ; lij, Munte Carlu ; ) is officially an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is ...
.
Cast
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Seymour Hicks
Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and p ...
as Jay Cheddar
*
Betty Stockfeld
Betty Stockfeld (15 January 190527 January 1966), often misspelled "Stockfield", was an Australian film actress. She appeared mostly in British and French films.
Betty was the daughter of Sydney businessman Harry Hooper Stockfeld and Susan Eli ...
as Joan Blossom
*
Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1947), for which he won th ...
as Sir Henry Blossom
*
Donald Calthrop
Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor.
Born in London, Calthrop was educated at St Paul's School and made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age at the Comedy Theatr ...
as Manager
*
Henry Wenman
Henry Wenman (1875-1953) was a British actor.
He was a brother of theatrical producer Charles Wenman, who had a substantial career in Australia.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1875 births
1953 deaths
British male film actor ...
as Jay Cheddar
*
Philip Strange
Philip Strange (4 June 1884 – 5 January 1963) was a British actor.
Selected filmography
* ''The Ace of Cads'' (1926)
* '' Broadway Nights'' (1927)
* ''Nevada'' (1927)
* ''Wall Street'' (1929)
* '' The Unholy Night'' (1929)
* '' The Rescue'' (1 ...
as Jackson
*
Amy Veness
Amy Veness (26 February 1876 – 22 September 1960) was an English film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in ''The Huggetts Trilogy'' and was sometimes credited as Amy Van Ness.
Veness was born Amy Clarice Beart in Aldeburgh, Suff ...
as Emma Bolt
*
Charles Farrell
Charles David Farrell (August 9, 1900 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor ...
as Digger
* Mike Johnson as Waiter
*
Hal Gordon
Hal Gordon (1894–1946) was a British film actor. A character actor, he appeared in over 90 films in both comic and straight roles.
He started off as a lawyer's clerk but finding it dull he decided on the stage, making his music hall debut i ...
as Waiter
*
Renee Gadd
Renee Gadd (1908–2003) was an Argentine-born British film actress. She acted mostly in British films.
Early life
Gadd was born on a ranch in Bahía Blanca, Argentina in 1908 to immigrants from Jersey. Her father Talbot Gadd was a railway executi ...
as Maid
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
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1932 films
Films shot at British International Pictures Studios
Films directed by Monty Banks
1932 comedy films
Films set in Monaco
British comedy films
British multilingual films
British black-and-white films
1932 multilingual films
1930s English-language films
1930s British films
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