Love in Waiting is a 1948

1948 in film

The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :...

 British 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...

 film directed by Douglas Pierce, and starring David Tomlinson

David Tomlinson

David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English film actor. He is primarily remembered for his roles as authority figure George Banks in Mary Poppins, fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and as hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug.-Early life:Born...

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Plot

In a busy restaurant during the food rationing period in the wake of WWII three waitresses fall in love with the manager (Tomlinson), the garbage man (who is the owner's son in disguise) and the downstairs neighbour, while trying to stay in the good books of the ruthless Miss Bell who runs the catering staff and is selling restaurant food supplies to the Black Market.

As is common with Tomlinson's 1940s films this is a very gentle romantic comedy with clever twists which hold up today even though they lack a great deal of originality 60 years on.

Cast

• David Tomlinson
  David Tomlinson
  David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English film actor. He is primarily remembered for his roles as authority figure George Banks in Mary Poppins, fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and as hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug.-Early life:Born...
  
   as Robert Clitheroe
• Andrew Crawford as Dick Lambert
• Peggy Evans
  Peggy Evans
  -Selected filmography:* School for Secrets * Penny and the Pownall Case * Look Before You Love * The Blue Lamp * Calling Bulldog Drummond -External links:...
  
   as Gloria 'Golly' Raine
• Elspet Gray
  Elspet Gray
  Elspeth Jean Gray, Baroness Rix is a Scottish actress, known for her work on British television in the 1970s and '80s...
  
   as Brenda Lawrence
• Patsy Drake as Mary Corder
• George Merritt
  George Merritt (actor)
  George Merritt was a British film and television actor.-Selected filmography:* The W Plan * The Lodger * I Was a Spy * Crime on the Hill * The Silver Spoon...
  
   as James Hartley Pepperfield
• Eliot Makeham
  Eliot Makeham
  Eliot Makeham , sometimes credited as Eliott Makeham or Elliot Makeham, was an English film and television actor.-Early life and education:He was born Harold Elliott Makeham in 1882, in London, England....
  
   as Sam Baxter
• John Witty as Harry Pepperfield
• Linda Gray
  Linda Gray
  Linda Ann Gray is an American actress, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the television prime-time soap opera Dallas.-Career:Prior to acting, Gray began working as a model in the 1960s...
  
  as Miss Bell