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15 February 1940 (USA)
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When VIVIEN LEIGH swings it...and CHARLES LAUGHTON sings it...WOW! (original ad) more
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On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room...
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There was a time before evil and a time before death...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Charles Laughton | ... | Charles Staggers | |
| Vivien Leigh | ... | Liberty 'Libby' | |
| Rex Harrison | ... | Harley Prentiss | |
| Larry Adler | ... | Constantine Dan | |
| Tyrone Guthrie | ... | Gentry | |
| Maire O'Neill | ... | Mrs. Such | |
| Gus McNaughton | ... | Arthur Smith | |
| Polly Ward | ... | Frankie | |
| Basil Gill | ... | Magistrate | |
| Helen Haye | ... | Selina | |
| David Burns | ... | Hackett | |
| Phyllis Stanley | ... | Della | |
| Edward Lexy | ... | Mr. Such | |
| Clare Greet | ... | Old Maud | |
| Alf Goddard | ... | Doggie |
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St. Martin's Lane
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85 min
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The premiere of this film, as "St. Martin's Lane'" was broadcast from the Carlton Theatre, Haymarket, with Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton) as the on-air reporter describing the event.
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Liberty 'Libby':
Just a minute! Look here, mister, who does this lovely world belong to, eh? To the people who live on it, you say? Well, I'm one of them. And I've got just the same taste as all the rest. You should be surprised. I get hungry. I get thirsty. I get cold. I enjoy smoke and a permanent wave, and whatever I can get in the way of extras. And why shouldn't I have them?
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Featured in The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988) (TV)
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Vivian Leigh charms and beguiles as does Charles Laughton and Rex Harrison,all of them in their innocence and unaffected excellence. A needful but blithe and hopeful era in London, after the internecine slaughter of World War I and the unimaginable evil of World War II and the Holocaust. To experience these three and others in a blitheful , happy episode of innocent merriment will uplift thee.