Romantic musical starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding. Debonair Michael Gore-Brown inherits a dress shop and becomes involved with its manager, Eileen Grahame. But when a rival shop always seems to get the new fashions first, some investigation is required.
This is virtually a remake of the previous year's Anna Neagle/Michael Wilding smash hit Spring in Park Lane. Director (and Mr Neagle) Herbert Wilcox, who also co-produced with his wife, knew when he was on to a good thing, and this time added Technicolor. The plot might remind Neagle fans of an even earlier movie, Irene, with its dress-shop rivalry, once so fashionable and today so dated. Neagle looks rather too old and staid to partner the charming Wilding, but a hard-working supporting cast, including Tom Walls, Nicholas Phipps (who also wrote this soufflé), Peter Graves (the British one!) and Thora Hird, keeps the fun bubbling. In their day, movies such as these offered a sort of genteel postwar chirpiness and were welcomed by a grateful British public.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Eileen Grahame | Anna Neagle |
| Michael Gore-Brown | Michael Wilding |
| D'Arcy Davenport | Peter Graves (1) |
| Sir Henry Hazelrigg | Nicholas Phipps |
| Janet | Thora Hird |
| Shepherd | Michael Shepley |
| Inspector | Tom Walls |
| Mr Keats | Max Kirby |
| Mr Shelley | Desmond Walter-Ellis |
| Policeman | Tom Walls Jr |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Herbert Wilcox |
