''Oh, Daddy!'' is a 1935 British
comedy film
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directed by
Graham Cutts
John Henry Graham Cutts (1884 – 7 February 1958), known as Graham Cutts, was a British film director, one of the leading British directors in the 1920s. His fellow director A. V. Bramble believed that Gainsborough Pictures had been built ...
and
Austin Melford and starring
Leslie Henson
Leslie Lincoln Henson (3 August 1891 – 2 December 1957) was an English comedian, actor, producer for films and theatre, and film director. He initially worked in silent films and Edwardian musical comedy and became a popular music hall come ...
,
Frances Day
Frances Day (born Frances Victoria Schenk; December 16, 1907April 29, 1984) was an American actress and singer who achieved great popularity in the UK in the 1930s.
Her career began as a nightclub cabaret singer in New York City and London. ...
,
Robertson Hare
John Robertson Hare, OBE (17 December 1891 – 25 January 1979) was an English actor, who came to fame in the Aldwych farces. He is remembered by more recent audiences for his performances as the Archdeacon in the popular BBC sitcom, ''All Ga ...
, and
Barry MacKay.
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It was made at Islington Studios
Islington Studios, often known as Gainsborough Studios, were a British film studio located on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London between 1919 and 1949. The studio ...
. The film's sets were designed by the art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Ernő Metzner Ernő Metzner (February 25, 1892 – September 25, 1953) was a film director and production designer.
Metzner was born in Subotica (then Austria-Hungary). He studied art at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts, then worked as a painter and graphic a ...
.
Cast
See also
* '' The True Jacob'' (1931)
* ''One Night Apart
''One Night Apart'' (german: Eine Nacht im Separee) is a 1950 West German period comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Kurt Seifert, Olga Tschechowa and Sonja Ziemann.Höfig p. 95 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The fi ...
'' (1950)
* '' The True Jacob'' (1960)
References
External links
*
''Oh, Daddy!'' at BFI Database
1935 films
1935 comedy films
British comedy films
Films directed by Graham Cutts
British remakes of German films
British films based on plays
British black-and-white films
Films set in London
1930s English-language films
1930s British films
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