Lancashire Luck is a 1937

1937 in film

The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.- Events :*April 16 - Way Out West premieres in the US....

 British film comedy, directed by Henry Cass

Henry Cass

Henry Cass was an English film director, particularly prolific in the horror and comedy genres.-Filmography:*Lancashire Luck *29 Acacia Avenue *The Glen Is Ours *The Glass Mountain...

. It is notable as the film debut of Wendy Hiller

Wendy Hiller

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took...

, and the first credited appearance of Nigel Stock.

Plot

The film is set around the paterfamilias of the Lovejoy family in Lancashire winning a large sum on the pools. With this windfall he buys a small tea-shop in a more upper-class section of their town, and generally lives the high life. His daughter falls in love with an aristocratic visitor to the shop, but her mother stands in her way, until all is happily resolved by the end.

Cast

• George Carney
  George Carney
  George Carney was a British film actor.He worked in the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, in a furniture business, then in the Belfast shipping yards...
  
   - George Lovejoy
• Margaret Damer - Lady Maydew
• George Galleon - Sir George Maydew
• Muriel George
  Muriel George
  Muriel George was an English singer and film actress. She appeared in some 55 films between 1932 and 1955.She also appeared on the variety stage and sang on radio with her husband, Ernest Butcher for thirty years...
  
   - Mrs. Lovejoy
• Wendy Hiller
  Wendy Hiller
  Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took...
  
   - Betty Lovejoy
• Bett Huth - Lady Evelyn Brenton
• Peter Popp
• Nigel Stock - Joe Lovejoy