Shipyard Sally (1939)
A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened.
- Date of release
- 1939-09-30
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Director
- Monty Banks
Casting
- Gracie Fields — Sally Fitzgerald
- Sydney Howard — Major Fitzgerald
- Morton Selten — Lord Alfred Randall
- Norma Varden — Lady Patricia Randall
- Oliver Wakefield — Forsyth
- Tucker McGuire — Linda Marsh
- MacDonald Parke — Diggs
- Richard Cooper — Sir John Treacher
- Monty Banks
- Joan Cowick
- Frank Atkinson — Jenkins
- Noel Dainton — Receptionist at Argyle Club
Interesting facts
Shipyard Sally is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard and Norma Varden. It was written by Don Ettlinger, Fields, Thomas J. Geraghty, Karl Tunberg and Val Valentine.
Production
Made shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, it was Fields' last British film. It was shot at Islington Studios with sets designed by Alex Vetchinsky.
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