Mayfair Melody 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 musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

, directed by Arthur B. Woods

Arthur B. Woods

Arthur Bickerstaffe Woods was an English film director with 27 credits between 1933 and 1940. Woods' films were mainly quota quickies but were diverse in style, from light comedy and musicals to dark crime thrillers. His most acclaimed film is 1938's They Drive by Night...

 and starring popular bass-baritone

Bass-baritone

A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...

 singer Keith Falkner

Keith Falkner

Sir Keith Falkner was a distinguished English bass-baritone singer especially associated with oratorio and concert recital, who later became Director of the Royal College of Music in London.- Childhood and youth :...

 in the first of his three screen performances.

The film was a quota quickie production, featuring Falkner as a factory hand whose wonderful singing voice is discovered by the daughter of the factory owner. She then guides him up the ladder to fame and fortune as a professional singer. Mayfair Melody is now classed as a lost film

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

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Cast

• Keith Falkner
  Keith Falkner
  Sir Keith Falkner was a distinguished English bass-baritone singer especially associated with oratorio and concert recital, who later became Director of the Royal College of Music in London.- Childhood and youth :...
  
   as Mark
• Chili Bouchier
  Chili Bouchier
  Chili Bouchier , later known as Dorothy Bouchier, was a British film actress who achieved success during the silent film era, and went on to many screen appearances with the advent of sound films, before progressing to theatre later in her career.She made her first appearance as a child dancer at a...
  
   as Carmen
• Bruce Lester
  Bruce Lester
  Bruce Lester was a South African-born English film actor with over 60 screen appearances to his credit between 1934 and his retirement from acting in 1958. Lester's career divided into two distinct periods...
  
   as Dickie
• Joyce Kirby
  Joyce Kirby
  -Selected filmography:* The Midshipmaid * Britannia of Billingsgate * It's a Boy * The Fire Raisers * Are You a Mason? * Mayfair Melody * The Compulsory Wife -External links:...
  
   as Brenda
• Glen Alyn as Daphne
• Aubrey Mallalieu
  Aubrey Mallalieu
  Aubrey Mallalieu was an English actor with a prolific career in supporting roles in films in the 1930s and 1940s....
  
  as Dighton
• George Galleon as Lord Chester

External links

• Mayfair at BFI Film & TV Database