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Happidrome (film)

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| name = Happidrome
| image = "Happidrome"_(1943_film).jpg
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| caption = Opening titles
| director = Phil Brandon
| producer = Harold Boxall
Jack Buchanan
| screenplay = James Seymour
& Tom Arnold
| based on = radio series by Harry Korris
| narrator =
| starring = Harry Korris
Robbie Vincent
Cecil Fredericks
| music = Bretton Byrd
| cinematography = Geoffrey Faithfull
| editing = Alan Jaggs
| studio = Aldwych Films
| distributor = MGM
| released = 7 June 1943
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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Happidrome is a 1943 British comedy film directed by Philip Brandon and starring Harry Korris, Robbie Vincent and Cecil Fredericks.^[1] It was a spin-off from the Happidrome BBC radio series which was popular at the time.^[2] The film was made at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, and produced by the musical star Jack Buchanan. The sets were designed by the art director William Hemsley.

Synopsis

Mr Lovejoy, a struggling actor-manager returns to a small provincial town with plans to put on a show. Despite having debts there during the previous visit, he is cunningly able to keep his show on the road and gains free advertising in a newspaper by announcing that local talent will be cast. In the meantime he acquires two incompetent assistants, Enoch and Rambsbottom, and Bunty Meadows, an eager would-be star also wangles her way into the company. A statuesque but domineering Russian prima donna also joins the cast.

Bunty's determination to become a leading lady has a disastrous effect on the opening night which is supposed to be a serious play about Ancient Rome, but quickly descends into a total farce. With the audience extremely amused, the show is quickly rebilled as a comedy.

Cast

Harry Korris as Mr Lovejoy
Robbie Vincent as Enoch
Cecil Fredericks as Ramsbottom
Bunty Meadows as Bunty Mossup
Lisa Lee as Tanya / Josephine
Jennie Gregson as Mrs Bane
Muriel Zillah as Muriel
Connie Creighton as Connie
Marie Lawson as Marie
Olga Stevenson as Miss D'Orsay
Joss Ambler as Mr Mossup
Valentine Dunn as Mrs Mossup
Bryan Herbert as Newspaper editor
Arthur Hambling as Jones Jnr.
Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson as Himself
Cairoli Brothers as Themselves
Billy Wells as Ivan

References

1. ^http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/35718
2. ^Richards p.275

Bibliography

Richards, Jeffrey. Films and British National Identity: from Dickens to Dad's Army. Manchester University Press, 1997.

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