Carry On Girls

Carry On Girls (1973)

When it comes to Beauty Queens - It's 'Carry On' and Bust!

Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.

Date of release
1973-11-09
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (66)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Gerald Thomas
Collection
Carry On Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

Carry On Girls is a 1973 British comedy film, the 25th release in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992). The film features regulars Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Bernard Bresslaw, June Whitfield and Peter Butterworth. This Carry On featured neither Kenneth Williams nor Charles Hawtrey; Williams was unavailable because of stage commitments and Hawtrey had been dropped from the series due to his alcoholism and unreliability.

Production

An early version of the script featured Kenneth Williams in the role of Mayor Bumble which would ultimately be played by Kenneth Connor in the finished film. Williams was appearing in a West End play, My Fat Friend. The role of Cecil Gaybody was written for Charles Hawtrey, however he had been dropped due to his unreliability.

The Rank Organisation financed four films in 1974, Carry on Dick, Carry on Girls, The Belstone Fox and Don't Just Lie There, Say Something, and partly financed Soft Beds and Hard Battles and Caravan to Vaccares.

The movie was shot from 16th April to 25th May, 1973. All the interiors were shot in Pinewood Studios, in Buckinghamshire.

The Clarges Hotel in Brighton (the exterior of which was used in the film) was then-owned by actress Dora Bryan who had appeared in the first Carry On, Carry On Sergeant. The hotel was previously used (also exterior only) in the 1971 film Carry On at Your Convenience. Another filming location these two movies have in common is Brighton's West Pier (the Palace Pier had been used a couple of years earlier in Carry On at Your Convenience).

Other filming locations include the Slough Town Hall, in Slough, Berkshire; and the Marylebone railway station in London.

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