Trottie True (Original title)The Gay Lady (Alternative title)

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Dates: 1948 (Copyright), 12 September 1949 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst

Synopsis: A music hall girl from Camden Town rises to be a duchess after success at the Gaiety.

Genre: Period drama

Subjects: Vaudeville, London Gaiety Theatre Company, Camden (London)

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Releases
Date: 1949Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 96 mins Length: 8626 FeetDialogue (original): English

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Production Company: Two Cities Films, Executive Producer: Earl St. John, Producer: Hugh Stewart, Associate Producer: George Pitcher, [Production Executive]: Herbert Smith, [Unit Manager]: Frank Sherwin Green, [Assistant Production Manager]: Victor Wark, [Producer's Personal Assistant]: Jean Scott Rogers, Assistant Director: Peter Bolton, [Assistant Director (1st)]: Mark Evans, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Guy Wilsdon, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Denis O'Dell, [Continuity]: Elizabeth Everson, [Casting Director]: Maude Spector, Screenplay: C. Denis Freeman, Based on the novel by: Caryl Brahms, S.J. Simon, Director of Photography: Harry Waxman, Technicolor Colour Consultant: Natalie Kalmus, Associate to Colour Director: Joan Bridge, [Camera Operator]: Harold Haysom, [Technicolor Technician]: Ken Gray, [Clapper Loader]: John Morgan, [Chargehand Electrician]: John McCloud, [Stills (Location)]: Paul Langford-Brown, [Stills (Publicity)]: Norman Gryspeerdt, [Stills (Studio)]: Frank Bellingham, Editor: Ralph Kemplen, [Assistant Editor (1st)]: Patricia Murray, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Gerry Hambling, Art Director: Ralph Brinton, [Assistant Art Director]: Betty Pierce, Set Dresser: Colleen Browning, [Draughtsman]: Bill Holmes, [Draughtsman]: Alec J. Henshaw, [Draughtsman]: Edward Marshall, R.B. Aunger, [Production Buyer]: Leslie Hogg, [Construction Manager]: Jim Tillyer, Dress Designer: Beatrice Dawson, [Wardrobe Supervisor]: Harry Haynes, [Wardrobe Mistress]: A. Jordan, Makeup Supervisor: Tony Sforzini, [Make-up Assistant]: Sid Turner, Stella Morris, Hairdressing Supervisor: Vivienne Walker, [Assistant Hairdresser]: Joyce Wood, [Assistant Hairdresser]: Pearl Bremner, [Assistant Hairdresser]: Vera Franklin, Joan White, Music: Benjamin Frankel, Songs: Carroll Gibbons, Music played by: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recording: John Cook, Sound Recording: Desmond Dew, [Sound Recordist]: Derek Barclay, [Boom Operator]: Fred Ryan, [Assistant Boom Operator]: Stan Ward, [Sound Maintenance]: W. Young, [Asst Dubbing Mixer - foreign version]: Peter T. Davies, Sound Editor: Harry Miller, [Publicity Manager]: Ken Green, [Publicity]: Anthony Firth, Studio: Denham Studios

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Jean Kent (Trottie True), James Donald (Lord Digby Landon), Hugh Sinclair (Maurice Beckenham), Lana Morris (Bouncie Barrington), Andrew Crawford (Sid Skinner), Bill Owen (Joe Jugg), Harcourt Williams (Duke of Wellwater), Michael Medwin (Monty, Marquis of Maidenhead), Hattie Jacques (Daisy Delaware), Joan Young (Mrs True), Heather Thatcher (Angela Platt-Brown), Mary Hinton (duchess), Francis De Wolfe (George Edwardes), Harold Scott (Mr True), Dylis Lay (Trottie, as a child), Irene Browne ([Duchess of Wellwater]), Mary Jones ([Gladys True]), Daphne Anderson ([Bertha True]), Carole Lesley ([Clare]), Sam Kydd (['Bedford' stage manager]), Christopher Lee ([Hon Bongo Icklesham]), Ian Wilson ([Bert, stage hand at 'Gaiety' theatre]), Michael Ward ([pianist at ball]), Roger Moore, Patrick Cargill ([stage door johnnie]), Tony Halfpenny ([Perce True]), Laurel Dudley ([little girl with German band]), Gretchen Franklin ([Martha]), Ian Carmichael ([Bill the postman]), Shaun Noble ([Andy Galloway]), D'Arcy Conyers ([Claude]), Helen Goss ([Mrs Bellaire]), Elspet Gray ([Honor Bellaire]), Katharine Blake ([Ruby Rubarto]), Olwen Brookes ([Lady Talman, 1st dowager]), Doris Rogers ([Hon Mrs Seaton, 2nd dowager]), Len Sharp ([Carter]), May Hallatt ([old Ellen]), W.E. Holloway ([old Vinegar]), Jusuf Ramart ([Monty's chauffeur]), Arthur Hambling ([Jupp]), Norman Hartley, Dennis Wood ([groom]), Anthony Steel ([Bellairs's footman]), Natasha Wills ([debutante daughter]), Elsie Wagstaff ([dependant relative]), Diana Maddox ([Sid Skinner's girlfriend]), John Vere ([Bellairs's butler]), Anne Holland ([Countess of Burney]), Philip Strange ([Earl of Burney]), Howard Douglas ([newspaper editor]), James Neylin ([Lord George Peasemarsh]), Tamara Lees, Constance Smith, Margaret Sullivan, Natalia Potocka ([Gaiety girl]), June Bardsley, Barbara Gurnhill, Josephine Stone ([Mayfair girl]), Joy Adams, Beth Ross, Joy Frankau, Josephine Ingram, Stella Conway, Pamela Galloway, Betty Deverell ([special girl]), John Boston, Peter Dunlop, Edward Leslie ([escort]), Anthony Tancred, John Fabian ([stage door johnnie]), John Morley, Neville Gates, Peter Norris, Stephen Jones ([special young man]), Lyndon Brook, Philip Stainton, Charles Perry, Anthony Adam, John Dennis ([extra]), Pamela Devis ([])

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