Forces' Sweetheart (film)
Encyclopedia
Forces' Sweetheart is a 1953 British
comedy film
directed by Maclean Rogers
and starring Hy Hazell
, Harry Secombe
and Michael Bentine
.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
comedy film
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
directed by Maclean Rogers
Maclean Rogers
-Selected filmography:Director* The Third Eye * The Mayor's Nest * Up for the Derby * The Crime at Blossoms * Trouble * Summer Lightning * It's a Cop * Virginia's Husband...
and starring Hy Hazell
Hy Hazell
Hy Hazell was a British film actress. She was born as Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins.-Selected filmography:* Meet Me at Dawn * Paper Orchid * The Lady Craved Excitement...
, Harry Secombe
Harry Secombe
Sir Harry Donald Secombe CBE was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show...
and Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine CBE was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. A Peruvian Briton by heritage as a result of his father's nationality, In 1971 Bentine received the Order of Merit of Peru because of his fund-raising work for the 1970 Great Peruvian...
.
Cast
- Hy HazellHy HazellHy Hazell was a British film actress. She was born as Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins.-Selected filmography:* Meet Me at Dawn * Paper Orchid * The Lady Craved Excitement...
- Judy James - Harry SecombeHarry SecombeSir Harry Donald Secombe CBE was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show...
- Harry Llewellyn - Michael BentineMichael BentineMichael Bentine CBE was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. A Peruvian Briton by heritage as a result of his father's nationality, In 1971 Bentine received the Order of Merit of Peru because of his fund-raising work for the 1970 Great Peruvian...
- John Robinson - Freddie FrintonFreddie FrintonFreddie Frinton, born Frederick Bittiner Coo was an English comedian who remains a household name in Germany and Scandinavia because of his performance in Dinner for One....
- Aloysius Dimwitty - John Ainsworth - John Robinson
- Molly WeirMolly WeirMary Weir, better known as Molly Weir, was a Scottish stage actress, most notable for her role as the long-running character Hazel the McWitch in the BBC TV series Rentaghost. She was the sister of naturalist and broadcaster Tom Weir.Born in Glasgow and brought up in the Springburn area of the...
- Maid - Adrienne Fancey - Audrey
- Kenneth Henry - Tommy Tupp
- Graham StarkGraham StarkGraham Stark is an English comedian, actor, writer and director.Stark was born in Wallasey on the Wirral in Cheshire, England. He first came to prominence on BBC Radio, making his debut in Happy Go Lucky and going on to Ray's A Laugh, Educating Archie and substitute on The Goon Show...
- Simmonds - John FitzgeraldJohn Fitzgerald-American football:*John Fitzgerald , former Dallas Cowboys center*John Fitzgerald , former quarterback with the af2's Austin Wranglers* John Fitzgerald , former University of Central Oklahoma lineman...
- Producer - Michael McCarthyMichael McCarthyMichael McCarthy is an Irish Labour Party politician, who was elected as a Teachta Dála for the Cork South West constituency at the 2011 general election. A former member of Seanad Éireann, McCarthy was first elected to the Seanad in 2002, ans was re-elected in 2007, on the Labour Panel on both...
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