Asking for Trouble
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Asking for Trouble is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell
Oswald Mitchell
Oswald Albert Mitchell was a British film director who directed several of the Old Mother Riley series of films.-Selected filmography:* Such Is the Law * Danny Boy * Old Mother Riley...

 and starring Max Miller, Carole Lynne
Carole Lynne
Carole Lynne, Baroness Delfont was a British theatre actress, best known for her work in the 1940s and 1950s. She was the widow of Lord Bernard Delfont, a prominent figure in the British entertainment industry....

 and Wilfrid Hyde-White
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Wilfrid Hyde-White was an English character actor.-Early life and career:Wilfrid Hyde White was born at the rectory in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, the son of William Edward White, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide Drought...

. A fishmonger
Fishmonger
A fishmonger is someone who sells fish and seafood...

 takes up bookmaking to earn extra cash.

Cast

  • Max Miller as Dick Smith
  • Carole Lynne
    Carole Lynne
    Carole Lynne, Baroness Delfont was a British theatre actress, best known for her work in the 1940s and 1950s. She was the widow of Lord Bernard Delfont, a prominent figure in the British entertainment industry....

     as Jane Smythe
  • Mark Lester
    Mark Lester
    Mark Lester is an English former child actor known for playing the title role in the 1968 musical film version of Oliver! and starring in a number of other British and European films of the 1960s and 70s and in a number of television series.-Early life and film career:Lester was born in Oxford,...

     as General Smythe
  • Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Wilfrid Hyde-White was an English character actor.-Early life and career:Wilfrid Hyde White was born at the rectory in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, the son of William Edward White, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide Drought...

     as Pettifer
  • Billy Percy as George
  • Eleanor Hallam as Margarita
  • Aubrey Mallalieu
    Aubrey Mallalieu
    Aubrey Mallalieu was an English actor with a prolific career in supporting roles in films in the 1930s and 1940s....

     as General Fortescue
  • Kenneth Kove
    Kenneth Kove
    -Selected filmography:* Murder! * The Great Game -Selected filmography:* Murder! (1930)* The Great Game -Selected filmography:* Murder! (1930)* The Great Game (1930* Down River (1931)* The Man from Toronto (1933)* Crime on the Hill (1933)* Asking for Trouble (1942)* Golden Arrow (1949)* Innocents...

     as Captain Fortescue
  • Chick Elliott as Mandy Lou
  • Esma Cannon
    Esma Cannon
    Esma Ellen Charlotte Cannon was a diminutive Australian-born character actress, who moved to England in the early 1930s.-Career:...

     as Ada
  • Lesley Osmond
    Lesley Osmond
    -Selected filmography:* Asking for Trouble * The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson * House of Darkness * This Was a Woman * Let's Have a Murder * The Story of Shirley Yorke * Chelsea Story...

     as Paulette
  • Raymond Glendenning
    Raymond Glendenning
    Raymond Glendenning was a BBC radio sports commentator.-Early years:He was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, and was educated at Newport High School and the University of London...

    as Commentator
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