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Elstree Calling (1930)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1930
Running Times: 86 mins
Format: black and white tinted
sequences 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: British International Pictures
SCRIPT
Script: Adrian Brunel, Walter C. Mycroft, Val Valentine
DIRECTION
Supervising Director: Adrian Brunel
Directors: André Charlot, Alfred
Hitchcock, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Claude Friese-Greene
MUSIC
Music: Reg Casson, Vivian
Ellis, Chic Endor
Songs: Ivor Novello, Jack Strachey Parsons (My Heart is Singing; The
Thought Never Entered My Head); Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf
(Ain't Misbehavin'); Edgar Leslie, Walter Donaldson (Tain't No Sin (to
Take Off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones))
Songs Performed By: Helen Burnell and The Adelphi Girls (My Heart is
Singing); Helen Burnell, Jack Hulbert (The Thought Never Entered My
Head); Lily Morris (Why Am I Always the Bridesmaid?; He's Only a Working
Man); The Charlot Girls (The Lady's Maid is Always in the Know); Cicely
Courtneidge and The Adelphi Girls (I've Fallen in Love); Teddy Brown
and his Orchestra (Ain't Misbehavin'); Will Fyffe (Twelve and a Tanner
a Bottle); The Three Eddies (Doin' the New Lowdown); The Three Eddies
(Tain't No Sin (to Take Off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones))
SOUND
Sound Engineer: Alex Murray
LOCATIONS
Studio: Elstree Studios, London, England
CAST
Teddy Brown
Helen Burnell
Donald Calthrop
Bobbie Comber
Cicely Courtneidge
Will Fyffe
Tommy Handley
Gordon Harker
Jack Hulbert
Hannah Jones
John Longden
Ivor McLaren
Lily Morris
Nathan Shacknovsky
John Stuart
Jameson Thomas
Anna May Wong
PLOT SUMMARY
A series of sketcehs and musical numbers, some of which are fantasy,
presented as a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Wardour Films Ltd
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Elstree llama - Spanish title
Parla elstree - Italian title
LINKS
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1996)
KEYWORDS revues, sketches, television, vaudeville
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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