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
| gross =
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{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
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
- Gracie Fields as Sally Fitzgerald
- Sydney Howard as Major Fitzgerald
- Morton Selten as Lord Alfred Randall
- Norma Varden as Lady Patricia Randall
- Oliver Wakefield as Forsyth
- Tucker McGuire as Linda Marsh
- MacDonald Parke as Diggs
- Richard Cooper as Sir John Treacher
- Joan Cowick as Secretary
- Monty Banks as Marsh’s doctor (uncredited)
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.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0033043}}
{{Monty Banks}}
Category:British musical comedy films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:1939 musical comedy films
Category:Films directed by Monty Banks
Category:20th Century Fox films
Category:Islington Studios films
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:Films scored by Louis Levy
Category:English-language musical comedy films
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