An unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant.An unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant.An unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant.
Eddie Leslie
- Comic
- (as Eddy Leslie)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaOne of the Beauty Queen contestants is a dark-haired Ruth Ellis, later to become infamous as the last woman hanged in Britain for murder and the subject of the movie Dance with a Stranger (1985).
- GoofsWhen Mrs. Clark complains about serving customers, while leaving her ironing, a shadow of the boom microphone is visible at the top of screen.
- Quotes
Hawtrey Murington - Optimum Films: The casting director is no longer with us. Murington alone remains, and he faces you.
Marjorie Clark: You mean you're "the" Mr. Murington?
Hawtrey Murington - Optimum Films: No longer "the" - - "that."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Those British Faces: A Tribute to Dennis Price 1915-1973 (1993)
- SoundtracksHow Long Is Always?
Written by Leo Towers and Frankie Russell
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Austerity is Nearly Over!
This was a hugely enjoyable film for those of us who were around when it was made. Even sixty years on I can still remember Battersea Funfair.
What I do wonder though, is how many in a modern audience will get all the topical jokes, a few for instance: the reference to Johnny being a butter patter: in those days Sainsbury's cut butter from a block, and patted it with wooden patters to the required weight; in the cinema Johnny buys a brickette ice-cream (without wafers); the 10/- fine if a half-naked girl moved during a tableau (Lord Chamberlain's rules - see Mrs Henderson Presents).
Among the nice touches: Alistair Sim's cameo as Hawtry Murington was quite brilliant from the opening, louring, shot of him to his accurate critique of the problems facing the British film industry; as Marjorie goes into see Otto Mann, casting director, a couch is just inside the door.
Although set in the North, the exterior shot of Chanters store is of Bentalls in Kingston. The station with the train back home is Kings Cross (the coaches are Eastern Region). And was the pawnbroker an uncredited Bernard Miles? Oh, and wasn't the 20 year old Diana Dors a dish? (And can somebody identify Joan Collins for me please).
The whole thing was a delight from start to finish (despite the lack of regional accents among the girls).
What I do wonder though, is how many in a modern audience will get all the topical jokes, a few for instance: the reference to Johnny being a butter patter: in those days Sainsbury's cut butter from a block, and patted it with wooden patters to the required weight; in the cinema Johnny buys a brickette ice-cream (without wafers); the 10/- fine if a half-naked girl moved during a tableau (Lord Chamberlain's rules - see Mrs Henderson Presents).
Among the nice touches: Alistair Sim's cameo as Hawtry Murington was quite brilliant from the opening, louring, shot of him to his accurate critique of the problems facing the British film industry; as Marjorie goes into see Otto Mann, casting director, a couch is just inside the door.
Although set in the North, the exterior shot of Chanters store is of Bentalls in Kingston. The station with the train back home is Kings Cross (the coaches are Eastern Region). And was the pawnbroker an uncredited Bernard Miles? Oh, and wasn't the 20 year old Diana Dors a dish? (And can somebody identify Joan Collins for me please).
The whole thing was a delight from start to finish (despite the lack of regional accents among the girls).
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- robinakaaly
- Mar 19, 2010
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Maxie macht Karriere
- Filming locations
- The Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, Kent, England, UK(setting of the Fascination Soap beauty pageant.)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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