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5.7/10   23 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Val Guest (additional dialogue)
Sig Herzig (writer)
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Release Date:
22 July 1953 (USA) more
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Plot:
An aging music hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Sid Field ... Jerry Sanford
Greta Gynt ... Mrs. Eve Barry
Petula Clark ... Peggy Sanford
Kay Kendall ... Patsy
Sonnie Hale ... Charlie de Haven
Claude Hulbert ... Belgrave, Charlie's dresser
Mary Clare ... Mrs. Gates
Tessie O'Shea ... Herself
Jerry Desmonde ... George
Beryl Davis ... Paula
Scotty McHarg ... Bill
W.G. Fay ... Mike
Reginald Purdell ... Stage Manager
Alf Dean ... Heckler (as Alfie Dean)
Charles Paton ... Novelty Shopkeeper
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
My Heart Goes Crazy (USA) (cut version)
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Runtime:
126 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #11816)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This film was Britain's first major Technicolor musical and also became the most notorious critical and box-office flop of the postwar British cinema and the largest bomb ever for its production company, the famed J. Arthur Rank Organisation. more
Quotes:
Belgrave: [to Peggy] God help the male population when you grow up! more
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4 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Relic of the days before tv, 9 July 2000
6/10
Author: edward wilgar (edwardwilgar@optusnet.com.au) from Melbourne, Australia

Interesting today mainly as a historical record of the Music Hall (Vaudeville to our American cousins), this is fairly slow and unfunny when not actually showing the performances.

Featuring Sid Field, a big star of the thirties and forties. He had a pleasant light singing voice but his act included a Golf Lesson routine not in the class of his namesake, W.C. Two-ton Tessie O'Shea, literally a big star, showed that she had lots of personality and there's an enjoyable Pearlie Kings act with `Any Old Iron?' etc.

Surprisingly in (pretty gaudy) colour.

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