Keep Smiling (film)
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Keep Smiling is a 1938 British
comedy film
directed by Monty Banks
and starring Gracie Fields
, Roger Livesey
and Mary Maguire
. After they are cheated out of money by an ex-manager, a group of performers club together to buy a bus
and travel around the country doing shows.
Banks incidentally, had starred in a 1925 silent film with this same title, a copy of which was recently located in Russia.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
comedy film
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
directed by Monty Banks
Monty Banks
Montague Banks was a comedian and film director. In the 1920s, he worked in Hollywood, starring in many silent short comedies and in the feature-length action thriller Play Safe...
and starring Gracie Fields
Gracie Fields
Dame Gracie Fields, DBE , was an English-born, later Italian-based actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall.-Early life:...
, Roger Livesey
Roger Livesey
Roger Livesey was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death...
and Mary Maguire
Mary Maguire
Mary Maguire was an Australian actress who briefly became a Hollywood and British film star in the late 1930s.-Childhood and Career in Australia:...
. After they are cheated out of money by an ex-manager, a group of performers club together to buy a bus
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
and travel around the country doing shows.
Banks incidentally, had starred in a 1925 silent film with this same title, a copy of which was recently located in Russia.
Cast
- Gracie FieldsGracie FieldsDame Gracie Fields, DBE , was an English-born, later Italian-based actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall.-Early life:...
- Gracie Gray - Roger LiveseyRoger LiveseyRoger Livesey was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death...
- Bert Wattle - Mary MaguireMary MaguireMary Maguire was an Australian actress who briefly became a Hollywood and British film star in the late 1930s.-Childhood and Career in Australia:...
- Avis Maguire - Peter CokePeter Coke-Personal life:Peter John Coke was born in Southsea on 3 April 1913. His father was a commander in the Navy, who took his family to Kenya to run a linen plantation, however, this venture failed and he began to run a coffee plantation...
- Rene Sigani - Jack DonohueJack DonohueJack Donohue may refer to:*Jack Donohue , Canadian basketball coach*Jack Donohue , American film director, see Chico and the Man*Molly Maguires's member, John "Yellow Jack" Donahue...
- Denis Wilson - Hay PetrieHay PetrieHay Petrie , born David Hay Petrie, was a Scottish actor noted for playing eccentric characters, among them Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop , the McLaggen in The Ghost Goes West and Uncle Pumblechook in Great Expectations .Hay Petrie went to St Andrew’s Academy, Dundee, and St...
- Jack - Mike Johnson - Charlie
- Eddie GrayEddie GrayEdwin "Eddie" Gray was a cultured winger who was an integral member of the legendary Leeds United football team of the 1960s and 1970s, later twice becoming the club's manager....
- Silvo - Tommy Fields - The Three Bolas
- Gladys Dehl - The Three Bolas
- Nino Rossini - The Three Bolas
- Edward RigbyEdward RigbyEdward Rigby was a British character actor.-Early life:Rigby was the son of Jamaican-born Dr. William Harriot Coke and his wife Liverpool-born Mary Elizabeth of 17 High Street, Ashford. He was educated at Haileybury, and Wye Agricultural College...
- Silas Gray - Joe MottJoe MottJoe Mott is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for three seasons for the New York Jets and the Green Bay Packers. He stands at 6'4" and weighs 245 pounds. He attended Union High School.-External links:*...
- Bill Sneed - Philip Leaver - De Courcy
- Gus McNaughtonGus McNaughtonGus McNaughton was an English film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1930 and 1947.He was born in London and died in Castor, Cambridgeshire.-Selected filmography:* Children of Chance...
- Eddie Perkins