Things Are Looking Up (Original title)
Date: 22 April 1935 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Albert de Courville
Synopsis: When schoolmistress Bertha Fytte elopes with circus wrestler The Big Black Fox, her younger sister, Mary, a pupil at the school, persuades yet another sister, Cicely, a circus performer and identical twin to Bertha, to stand in for the latter at the school. Initially this is to be only for twenty-four hours until Joey, a colleague of Cicely's at the circus, can bring Bertha back. However, Bertha ends up in Africa and Cicely has to take her sister's place for longer than planned. While Bertha is away, Cicely also has to continue performing with the circus as she wants to sell it as a going concern. Bertha, however, eventually returns and finds that Cicely has managed to get her appointed as the new headmistress with the present encumbent due to retire. Cicely also manages to sell the circus, after which she runs away with Mr. Van Gaard, one of the teachers at the school.Synopsis: Comedy of twin sisters, a circus performer and a schoolmistress, and the masquerade of the former as the latter.
Genre: Comedy
Subject: Circuses
Releases
Date: 1935Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 80 mins Length: 7197 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 22 April 1935 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Albert de Courville
Synopsis: When schoolmistress Bertha Fytte elopes with circus wrestler The Big Black Fox, her younger sister, Mary, a pupil at the school, persuades yet another sister, Cicely, a circus performer and identical twin to Bertha, to stand in for the latter at the school. Initially this is to be only for twenty-four hours until Joey, a colleague of Cicely's at the circus, can bring Bertha back. However, Bertha ends up in Africa and Cicely has to take her sister's place for longer than planned. While Bertha is away, Cicely also has to continue performing with the circus as she wants to sell it as a going concern. Bertha, however, eventually returns and finds that Cicely has managed to get her appointed as the new headmistress with the present encumbent due to retire. Cicely also manages to sell the circus, after which she runs away with Mr. Van Gaard, one of the teachers at the school.Synopsis: Comedy of twin sisters, a circus performer and a schoolmistress, and the masquerade of the former as the latter.
Genre: Comedy
Subject: Circuses
Releases
Date: 1935Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 80 mins Length: 7197 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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Production Company: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, [Producer]: Michael Balcon, Associate Producer: Herbert Mason, Screen Play: Con West, C. Stafford Dickens, Story: Albert de Courville, Daisy Fisher, Photography: Charles Van Enger, Editor: R.E. Dearing, Art Director: A. Vetchinsky, Musical Number ['Things Are Looking Up']: Noel Gay, Clifford Grey, Musical Director: Louis Levy, Recordist: A.C. O'Donoghue, Sound: British Acoustic Film, Studio: Shepherd's Bush Studios
Cast
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Cicely Courtneidge (Cicely\Bertha Fytte), Max Miller (Joey), William Gargan (Van Gaard), Mary Lawson (Mary Fytte), Mark Lester (chairman, school governors), Henrietta Watson (Miss McTavish), Cicely Oates (Miss Crabbe), Judy Kelly (Opal), Dick Henderson (Mr. Money), Dick Henderson Jnr. (Mr. Money's son), Charles Mortimer (Harry, circus ringmaster), Hay Plumb (tennis umpire), Denny Green (The Big Black Fox), Suzanne Lenglen (Mme. Bombardier), Wyn Weaver ([governor]), Alma Taylor ([schoolmistress]), Vivien Leigh ([schoolgirl]), Ian Wilson ([drummer in band]), Zena Harcourt