Things Are Looking Up (film)

Things Are Looking Up
Directed by	Albert de Courville
Produced by	Michael Balcon Herbert Mason Alexander Korda (uncredited)^[1]
Written by	Stafford Dickens Daisy Fisher Con West Albert de Courville
Starring	Cicely Courtneidge Max Miller William Gargan Mary Lawson
Music by	Louis Levy
Cinematography	Charles Van Enger Glen MacWilliams
Edited by	R.E. Dearing
Production company	Gaumont British Picture Corporation
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release dates	1935
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Things Are Looking Up is a 1935 British musical comedy film directed by Albert de Courville, produced by Michael Balcon for Gaumont British and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Max Miller and William Gargan.^[2]^[3] It was made at Islington Studios by British Gaumont, an affiliate of Gainsborough Pictures.^[4] The film's sets were designed by Alex Vetchinsky. Courtneidge plays a dual role as the sisters Bertha and Cicely Fytte. Bertha is a dour schoolteacher, while the bubbly Cicely runs a nearby showground. When Bertha surprisingly elopes, Cicely takes her place at the school to prevent her from getting the sack. It was the film debut for Vivien Leigh.^[5]

Cast

Cicely Courtneidge as Cicely Fytte / Bertha Fytte
Max Miller as Joey
William Gargan as Van Gaard
Mary Lawson as Mary Fytte
Mark Lester as Chairman
Henrietta Watson as Miss McTavish
Cicely Oates as Miss Crabbe
Judy Kelly as Opal
Dick Henderson as Mr. Money
Dickie Henderson as Mr. Money's Son
Charles Mortimer as Harry
Hay Plumb as Tennis Umpire
Danny Green as Big Black Fox
Suzanne Lenglen as Madame Bombardier
Vivien Leigh as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Alma Taylor as Schoolmistress (uncredited)
Wyn Weaver as Governor (uncredited)
Ian Wilson as Drummer in Band (uncredited)

References

↑ "Alexander Korda". -The Open University. Accessed 2015-12-29
↑ "Things Are Looking Up 1935". britmovie.co.uk. Britmovie Home of British Films. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
↑ Cook, 1997, p. 188
↑ Wood, 1986 p.84
↑ Howard Reid, 2005, p. 205

Bibliography

Wood, Linda. (1986). British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute
Howard Reid, John. (2005). Hollywood's Miracles of Entertainment. Lulu.com
Cook, Pam. (1997). Gainsborough Pictures. Performing Arts

External links

Things Are Looking Up at the Internet Movie Database
Things Are Looking Up Britmovie | Home of British Films

The films of Albert de Courville

Wolves (1930)
77 Park Lane (1931)
77 Rue Chalgrin (1931)
Between Night and Day (1932)
Under the Leather Helmet (1932)
There Goes the Bride (1932)
The Midshipmaid (1932)
This Is the Life (1933)
Wild Boy (1934)
Things Are Looking Up (1935)
Charing Cross Road (1935)
The Case of Gabriel Perry (1935)
Seven Sinners (1936)
Strangers on Honeymoon (1936)
Clothes and the Woman (1937)
The Rebel Son (1938)
Oh Boy! (1938)
Star of the Circus (1938)
Crackerjack (1938)
The Lambeth Walk (1939)
An Englishman's Home (1940)

Films produced by Michael Balcon

1920s	The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Blighty (1927) Downhill (1927) The Rolling Road (1927) Easy Virtue (1927) One of the Best (1927) The Vortex (1927) A South Sea Bubble (1928) A Light Woman (1928) The First Born (1928) The Wrecker (1929) The Return of the Rat (1929) City of Play (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Woman to Woman (1929)

1930s	Jack's the Boy (1932) I Was a Spy (1933) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Princess Charming (1934) Evergreen (1934) Red Ensign (1934) Along Came Sally (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Car of Dreams (1935) First a Girl (1935) Me and Marlborough (1935) The 39 Steps (1935) Stormy Weather (1935) Things Are Looking Up (1935) The First Offence (1936) Tudor Rose (1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Secret Agent (1936) Where There's a Will (1936) Windbag the Sailor (1936) Doctor Syn (1937) A Yank at Oxford (1938) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)

1940s	Let George Do It! (1940) The Proud Valley (1940) The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) Ships with Wings (1941) Turned Out Nice Again (1941) The Big Blockade (1942) Went the Day Well? (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) My Learned Friend (1943) The Foreman Went to France (1942) Undercover (1943) The Bells Go Down (1943) San Demetrio London (1943) Nine Men (1943) For Those in Peril (1944) Champagne Charlie (1944) The Halfway House (1944) Fiddlers Three (1944) Dead of Night (1945) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) They Came to a City (1945) Johnny Frenchman (1945) The Captive Heart (1946) The Overlanders (1946) Hue and Cry (1947) It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Frieda (1947) Against the Wind (1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Passport to Pimlico (1949) Whisky Galore! (1949) A Run for Your Money (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

1950s	Cage of Gold (1950) The Blue Lamp (1950) The Magnet (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Pool of London (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) The Cruel Sea (1953) The Ladykillers (1953) The Maggie (1954) The Night My Number Came Up (1955) Touch and Go (1955) The Long Arm (1956) Barnacle Bill (1957) The Man in the Sky (1957) The Shiralee (1957) Dunkirk (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

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