Follow a Star

Follow a Star (1959)

Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.

Date of release
1959-01-01
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Comedy, Music
Director
Robert Asher

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

Follow a Star is a 1959 British black and white comedy musical film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom, June Laverick and Jerry Desmonde. It was written by Henry Blyth, Jack Davies and Wisdom.

Production

Norman Wisdom had a falling out with his regular director John Paddy Carstairs so was replaced on this by Bob Asher. According to producer Hugh Stewart:

Over some childish thing, which I can't possibly go into, Norman and Paddy had a split. There was something which Norman queried and Paddy was flashing eyes, mad with anger you see, "He should trust me! I won't do this, will never tolerate him again," and so on. So there wasn't anything to do – I had to find another director. So I did, and I got Bob Asher. I was very sorry about the business about Paddy but there was no other way.

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