Trottie True

Trottie True (1949)

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

Date of release
1949-09-29
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Music, Drama, Comedy
Director
Brian Desmond Hurst

Casting

Interesting facts

Trottie True is a 1949 British musical comedy film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Jean Kent, James Donald and Hugh Sinclair. It is a rare British Technicolor film of the period.

Production

The film is based on a novel by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, published in 1946. Hugh Stewart read the book at the suggestion of Dennis Freeman and succeeded in setting up the project at Rank.

The musical comedy was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst.

The exterior shots of the mansion are of Stowe House. Producer Hugh Stewart read the story when he was recovering from jaundice. He bought the film rights and tried to finance the film through MGM, with which he had a contract. MGM did not want to make the film, but Stewart got it financed at Two Cities. MGM loaned Stewart to Two Cities to produce the film.

Stewart said that several directors were considered, including Harold French, before Brian Desmond Hurst was chosen. Anthony Steel made one of his earliest film appearances in Trottie True.

Jean Kent called it her "favourite film. And Harry Waxman was a marvellous cameraman. They weren't good with the music, though. I had a battle about that." She continued:

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