''Three Maxims'' is a 1936 British

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directed by

Herbert Wilcox Herbert Sydney Wilcox Order of the British Empire, CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977) was a British film producer and film director, director. He was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He is best know ...

and starring Anna Neagle,

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and

Leslie Banks Leslie James Banks CBE (9 June 1890 – 21 April 1952) was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930s and 1940s, but also the Choru ...

. It was released in the

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under the alternative title '' The Show Goes On''. Separate French and German language versions were filmed 1935 in

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. The film's sets were designed by Wilcox's regular art director

Lawrence P. Williams Lawrence P. Williams (10 August 1905 – 8 October 1996) was a British motion picture art director. He was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire). Filmography * ''So Well Remembered'' (1947) * ''Brief Encounter'' (1945) (as L.P. Willia ...

Premise

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causes major disruption to the harmony of a trapeze act.

Cast

* Anna Neagle – Pat *

– Toni *

– Mac * Arthur Finn – Hiram K. Winston * Olive Blakeney – Mrs Winston *

Miki Hood Barbara Mary "Miki" Hood (9 January 1915 – September, 1994) was an English stage and film actress. She played the female lead in the 1934 film ''Guest of Honour Guest of honour (or honor) may refer to: Film, television and theatre * ''Guest o ...

– Valentine *

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– Val * Nicolas Koline – Niki * Gaston Palmer – Juggler * Leonard Snelling – Prodigy * Winifred Oughton – Prodigy's Mother * Beatrix Fielden-Kaye – Madame Thomas *

Laurence Hanray Laurence Hanray ( Lawrence Henry Jacobs; 16 May 1874 – 28 November 1947), sometimes credited as Lawrence Hanray, was a British film and theatre actor born in London, England. He is also credited as the author of several plays and music hall s ...

– Thomas * Tarva Penna – Doctor * Vincent Holman – Cafe Proprietor * Henry Caine – Stage Manager * Horace Hodges – Mike

Other film versions

* ' (1935) with Jean Gabin and

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* '' Variety'' (1935) with

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and

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927–1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

* 1936 films 1936 drama films British drama films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Herbert Wilcox Films with screenplays by Herman J. Mankiewicz Circus films British remakes of French films British remakes of German films British black-and-white films Films shot at Imperial Studios, Elstree 1930s British films {{1930s-UK-film-stub