Variety Jubilee (1943)
This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
- Date of release
- 1943-06-14
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Music
- Director
- Maclean Rogers
Casting
- Reginald Purdell — Joe Swan
- Ellis Irving — Kit Burns
- Lesley Brook — Evelyn Vincent
- Tom E. Finglass — Eugene Stratton
- Betty Warren — Florrie Forde
Interesting facts
Variety Jubilee is a 1943 British historical musical film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Reginald Purdell, Ellis Irving and Lesley Brook. It was written by Kathleen Butler based on a story by Mabel Constanduros, and depicts life in a London music hall from 1892 to the Second World War. It was made at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. The film was re-released in 1945, to capitalise on the popularity of Ealing's Champagne Charlie.
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