Top billed cast

1. 

   Tommy Handley

   The Host

2. 

   Teddy Brown

   Himself

3. 

   Donald Calthrop

   Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew

4. 

   Jack Hulbert

   Himself

5. 

   Helen Burnell

   Herself

6. 

   The Three Eddies

   Themselves

7. 

   Lily Morris

   Herself

8. 

   Will Fyffe

   Himself

9. 

   Cicely Courtneidge

   Herself

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-08-29

A distinctly off-form Tommy Handley introduces this rather curious piece of cinematic entertainment that features a variety of stars from the British stage at the end of the 1920s. The mixture of musical, comedy and magical turns illustrates well just quite how a real pot-pourri of acts took to the stage in theatres up and down the UK - but there is no audience. Without the engagement, even applause, from those watching the whole thing comes across as a rather sterile collection of concert performances, as if filmed in an empty television studio. It has a couple of rather tenuous continuing th...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• tap dancing
• black and white
• vaudeville
• blackface
• russian music
• skit
• variety show
• xylophone player
• music hall song
• romantic song