Shipyard Sally

{{Infobox film

| name = Shipyard Sally

| image = File:Shipyard Sally.jpg

| caption =

| director = Monty Banks

| producer = Robert Kane

| writer = Don Ettlinger
Gracie Fields
Thomas J. Geraghty
Karl Tunberg
Val Valentine

| starring = Gracie Fields
Sydney Howard
Norma Varden

| music = Louis Levy

| cinematography = Otto Kanturek

| editing = R. E. Dearing
Alfred Roome

| studio = Twentieth Century Productions

| distributor = Twentieth Century Fox

| released = {{Film date|df=y|1939|10|16|UK}}

| runtime = 77 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget = £255,057{{cite magazine|title=‘The highest salary ever paid to a human being’: Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England |last=Chapman|first= Llewella|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|magazine=Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10|volume=19|number=4|page=470-494 at 487}}

| gross =

}}

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Shipyard Sally is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard and Norma Varden.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b5bd3e3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826034425/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b5bd3e3|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 August 2017|title=Shipyard Sally (1939)|publisher=}} The film is notable for the song "Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye", which became a major hit.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/shipyard-sally-v109928|title=Shipyard Sally (1939) - Monty Banks - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}

Plot

Sally, a failed music hall performer, and her father take over a pub near the John Brown & Company shipyard at Clydebank. When the closure of the yard threatens to put many out of work she leads a campaign to persuade the government to reconsider the decision.

Production

Made shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, it was Fields' last British film.Shafer p.186 It was shot at Islington Studios with sets designed by Alex Vetchinsky.Wood p.101

Cast

References

Bibliography

  • Shafer, Stephen C. British Popular Films 1929–1939:The Cinema of Reassurance. Rutledge, 1997. {{ISBN|978-0-415-00282-0}}.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.