Keep Smiling

Keep Smiling (1938)

Entertainer quits a crooked London theater and sets up her troupe on her uncle's farm. A famous musician joins the group and helps them get a legitimate booking.

Date of release
1938-01-02
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 23m
Director
Monty Banks

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

Keep Smiling is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Roger Livesey and Mary Maguire. It was written by Rodney Ackland, William M. Conselman and Val Valentine.

Production

It was the second film made by Fields under her contract with 20th Century-Fox, and was made at Pinewood Studios with sets designed by the art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff. It was retitled Smiling Along to avoid confusion with another film with the same name, released by Fox in America the same year, and starring Jane Withers.

Fields' salary was £50,000 making her the best paid British based film star of the 1930s.

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