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Design For Loving
''Design for Loving'' (also known as ''Fashion for Loving'') is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring June Thorburn, Pete Murray and Soraya Rafat. A beatnik becomes a top fashion model. Plot With an eye on the youth market, fashion executive Barbara Winters hires beatnik Stanford as her chief fashion adviser. However, discovering Stanford is in reality Lord Stanford, leads to ensuing comic complications. Cast * June Thorburn as Barbara Winters * Pete Murray as Lord Stanford * Soraya Rafat as Irene * James Maxwell as Joe * June Cunningham as Alice * Prudence Hyman as Lady Bayliss * Michael Balfour as Bernie * Edward Palmer as Graves * John Bay as Freddie * Marjie Lawrence as Mrs. Samson * Katharine Page as chaperone * Patsy Smart as landlady * Mark Singleton as Karl * Charles Lamb as Walter * Humphrey Lestocq as manager * Mary Malcolm as compere * Angela Douglas as Bernie's secretary Critical reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Grayson
Godfrey Ramsey H. Grayson (1913, Birkenhead, Cheshire – 1998, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey) was an English film director. Selected filmography * ''Doctor Morelle'' (1949) * ''Meet Simon Cherry'' (1949) * ''The Adventures of PC 49'' (1949) * ''What the Butler Saw (1950 film), What the Butler Saw'' (1950) * ''The Lady Craved Excitement'' (1950) * ''Room to Let (1950 film), Room to Let'' (1950) * ''To Have and to Hold (1951 film), To Have and to Hold'' (1951) * ''Innocent Meeting'' (1949) * ''The Fake (1953 film), The Fake'' (1953) * ''Black Ice (1957 film), Black Ice'' (1957) * ''Woman's Temptation'' (1959) * ''An Honourable Murder'' (1960) * ''Escort for Hire (1960)'' * ''The Spider's Web (1960 film), The Spider's Web'' (1960) * ''The Pursuers'' (1961) * ''The Durant Affair'' (1962) * ''She Always Gets Their Man'' (1962) * ''The Lamp in Assassin Mews'' (1962) * ''The Battleaxe (film), The Battleaxe'' (1962) * ''Design for Loving'' (1962) References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Singleton (actor)
Mark Singleton (1919–1986) was a British film and television actor. Partial filmography * '' The Gambler and the Lady'' (1952) - Waiter at Jack of Spades (uncredited) * '' Girdle of Gold'' (1952) - Waiter * ''Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder'' (1953) - 2nd Drama critic * '' Take a Powder'' (1953) - (uncredited) * '' Face the Music'' (1954) - Waiter * '' You Lucky People!'' (1955) - Lt. Arthur Robson * '' Moment of Indiscretion'' (1958) - (Jeweller) * '' Innocent Meeting'' (1959) - (uncredited) * ''No Safety Ahead'' (1959) - Fordham * '' Top Floor Girl'' (1959) - (uncredited) * '' Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons'' (1960) - Advertising Clerk (uncredited) * '' Compelled'' (1960) - Derek * ''Transatlantic'' (1960) - Mills * '' Sentenced for Life'' (1960) - Edward Thompson * '' A Taste of Money'' (1960) - Detective * '' The Court Martial of Major Keller'' (1961) - Captain Fuller * '' Murder in Eden (film)'' (1961) - Arnold Woolf * '' Part-Time Wife'' (1961) - Detective * '' Partners in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s English-language Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Comedy Films
British comedy films are comedy films produced in the United Kingdom. In the early 1930s, film adaptations of stage farces were popular. British comedy films are numerous, but among the most notable are the Ealing comedies, the 1950s work of the Boulting Brothers, and innumerable popular comedy series including the St Trinian's films, the '' Doctor'' series, and the long-running Carry On films. Some of the best known British film comedy stars include Will Hay, George Formby, Norman Wisdom, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and the Monty Python team. Other actors associated with British comedy films include Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips. Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series. Recent successful films include the working-class comedies '' Brassed Off'' (1996) and '' The Full Monty'' (1997), the more middle class Richard Curtis-scripted films '' Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Comedy Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to war-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Godfrey Grayson
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Films
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with '' Lawrence of Arabia'' winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures will celebrated their 50th anniversaries. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * February – Warner Bros. buy the film rights for ''My Fair Lady'' for the unprecedented sum of $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million. * May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government. * June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca- Universal. * July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board. * August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose. * September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's '' Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ... company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. In 2008, the company sold its founding product, the '' TV Guide'' magazine and the entire print magazine division, to a private buyout firm operated by Andrew Nikou, who then set up the print operation as TV Guide Magazine LLC. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become '' TV Guide'' magazine was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monthly Film Bulletin
The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a narrow arthouse release. History The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was edited in the mid-1950s by David Robinson, in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Peter John Dyer, and then by Tom Milne. By the end of the 1960s, when the character and tone of its reviews changed considerably with the arrival of a new generation of critics influenced by the student culture and intellectual tumult of the time (not least the overthrow of old ideas of "taste" and quality), David Wilson was the editor. It was then edited by Jan Dawson (1938 – 1980), for two years from 1971, and from 1973 until its demise by the New Zealand-born critic Richard Combs. In 1991, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was merged with '' Sight & Sound'', which had until then be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Douglas
Angela Douglas (born Angela McDonagh) is an English actress. Early life Douglas was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire circa 1940. Career Douglas started acting as a teenager, joining the Worthing, West Sussex repertory theatre, repertory company, before making her West End theatre debut in 1958. Douglas made an uncredited appearance as an audience member in the 1958 film version of Six-Five Special. She made her (non-speaking) film debut in 1959 in ''The Shakedown (1959 film), The Shakedown'', and then appeared with Tommy Steele in ''It's All Happening (film), It's All Happening''. She is best remembered for her roles in several ''Carry On (franchise), Carry On Films'' in the 1960s, including ''Carry On Cowboy'' (1965) as an all-singing and trigger-happy version of Annie Oakley. She then appeared in ''Carry On Screaming!'' (1966), ''Follow That Camel'' (1967) and ''Carry On Up the Khyber'' (1968). She has, by virtue of this association, appeared on many retrospective a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Malcolm
Helen Mary Malcolm Retrieved 2012-11-08 (15 March 191813 October 2010) was one of the first two regular female announcers on after the and was a household name in the United Kingdom during the 1950s. Biography The only daughter and youngest of four children of the diplomat and politician Sir Ian Malcolm and Jeanne Langtry (1881–1964) and grand ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Lestocq
Humphrey Lestocq (23 January 1919 – 29 January 1984) was a British actor, best known for his roles in ''Angels One Five'' (1952) and '' The Long Shadow'' (1961), and guest appearances in the television series '' The Avengers''. Lestocq shot to fame as Flying Officer Kyte in the BBC radio wartime comedy ''Merry-Go-Round'' (1944–1948), which later evolved into ''Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh''. He was also the presenter of the TV series ''Whirligig'', the first Saturday children's programme to be broadcast live from the BBC's Lime Grove Studios. It ran from 1950 to 1956. Calling himself "H.L.", he was the stooge of the puppet Mr. Turnip, voiced by Peter Hawkins. Lestocq's catchphrases were "Goody, Goody Gumdrops" and "Jolly D", and Mr. Turnip's was "Lawky, Lawky, Lum". Family He was born Humphrey Lestocq Gilbert on 23 January 1919 in Chiswick, London, England. His parents were George Marx Gilbert and May Frances née Wooldridge, married 1911 in Brentford (Chiswick). They h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
