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Gracie Fields Collection

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Rated 3.0 stars
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Starring: Gracie Fields | John Loder | Ivor Barnard | Dorothy Hyson | Stanley Holloway | Frank Pettingell | Ian Hunter | Florence Desmond | Richard Dolman | Julian Rose | Wyn Richmond | Enid Stamp-Taylor | Fred Duprez | Alfred Drayton | Billy Nelson
Director: Maurice Elvey, Basil Dean, Graham Cutts
Studio: OPTIMUM
Run time: 468 mins
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Released: February 11, 2008

This box set features the following films:

Love, Life and Laughter (Dir. Maurice Elvey) (1934): An impoverished author and a cabaret girl each have their dream of success, but are happy to wake to each other and reality.

Sing As We Go (Dir. Basil Dean) (1934): When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

Sally In Our Alley (Dir. Maurice Elvey) (1931): A working class girl who waits on tables in a London coffee house sings to the customers to keep them entertained.

Looking on The Bright Side (Dir. Graham Cutts / Basil Dean) (1932): Manicurist Fields falls for songwriting hairdresser Dolman whose heart belongs to a gorgeous singer.

Queen of Hearts (Dir. Monty Banks) (1936): Gracie Perkins is a seamstress who is mistaken for a wealthy patroness of the arts!

Look Up And Laugh (Dir. Basil Dean) (1935): Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders when a department store chain threatens to takeover and demolish their business.

The Show Goes On (Dir. Basil Dean) (1937): The rise of British entertainer Graci Fields from humble mill girl to the most popular and highest paid performer in Great Britain during the Depression era is chronicled in this biographical drama.

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Rated 3.0 stars
Gracie

A Customer from London, 18th March, 2008

Sing as we go is Gracie Fields's best film. If you don't take to it, you should not bother with the others. Directed by the theatre producer, Basil Dean, without any style, Fields, nevertheless, manages a decent performance with some good sketches as a popular mill-hand during the economic depression of the 1930s. She is, naturally, in love with the boss's son, but does he know it and does he care? Love, life & laughter is is from Britain's most prolific film director, Maurice Elvey, who directed the greatly admired late silent version of Hindle Wakes. Elvey is rarely less than competent and, here, he shows what he can do with weak material.

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Rated 4.0 stars
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Barry from London, England, 31st December, 2009

I wish someone would put SHIPYARD SALLY on DVD and add it to the Gracie Fields collection. Watch the You Tube clip and you will see what I mean. The film is the first time Gracie sings 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye' which, of course, later became a famous (the best?) Second World War morale booster song.

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Rated 4.0 stars
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teg from , 17th April, 2009

good old films of the 30s

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