Music Hath Charms
Encyclopedia
Music Hath Charms is a 1935 British
musical film
directed by Thomas Bentley
. Walter Summers
, Arthur B. Woods
and Alexander Esway, and starring Henry Hall
, Carol Goodner
and Arthur Margetson
.
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...
musical film
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
directed by Thomas Bentley
Thomas Bentley
Thomas Bentley was a British film director. He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, The Man in the Street , The Antidote , and Acci-Dental Treatment .Bentley was born in London and originally trained as an engineer,...
. Walter Summers
Walter Summers
Walter Summers was a British film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Barnstaple to a family of actors, British motion picture director Walter Summers began his career in the family trade; his first contact with filmmaking was as an assistant to American director George Loane Tucker, who...
, Arthur B. Woods
Arthur B. Woods
Arthur Bickerstaffe Woods was an English film director with 27 credits between 1933 and 1940. Woods' films were mainly quota quickies but were diverse in style, from light comedy and musicals to dark crime thrillers. His most acclaimed film is 1938's They Drive by Night...
and Alexander Esway, and starring Henry Hall
Henry Hall
Henry Hall may refer to:In politics and government:* Henry Hall, 4th Viscount Gage , British peer* Henry C. Hall , attorney and member of the Interstate Commerce Commission appointed by President Wilson...
, Carol Goodner
Carol Goodner
Carol Goodner was an American actress who appeared mostly in British films and television. She was born in New York in 1904 later moving to England where she appeared in her first film Those Who Love in 1929. She retired in 1957.A toe dancer when she was only four years old, she continued to earn...
and Arthur Margetson
Arthur Margetson
-Selected filmography:* Wolves * Many Waters * His Grace Gives Notice * Music Hath Charms * Royal Cavalcade * The Divine Spark * The Mystery of the Marie Celeste * Broken Blossoms...
.
Cast
- Henry HallHenry HallHenry Hall may refer to:In politics and government:* Henry Hall, 4th Viscount Gage , British peer* Henry C. Hall , attorney and member of the Interstate Commerce Commission appointed by President Wilson...
- Himself - W.H. Berry - Basil Turner
- Carol GoodnerCarol GoodnerCarol Goodner was an American actress who appeared mostly in British films and television. She was born in New York in 1904 later moving to England where she appeared in her first film Those Who Love in 1929. She retired in 1957.A toe dancer when she was only four years old, she continued to earn...
- Mrs. Norbray - Arthur MargetsonArthur Margetson-Selected filmography:* Wolves * Many Waters * His Grace Gives Notice * Music Hath Charms * Royal Cavalcade * The Divine Spark * The Mystery of the Marie Celeste * Broken Blossoms...
- Alan Sterling - Lorna Hubbard - Marjorie Turner
- Antoinette CellierAntoinette CellierAntoinette Cellier was an English film and theatre actress.-Early life and education:She was born in Broadstairs, Kent, England. Her father, Frank Cellier, was a film and theatre actor...
- Joan - Billy MiltonBilly Milton-Selected filmography:* Young Woodley * The Man from Chicago * The Great Gay Road * Three Men in a Boat * Music Hath Charms * No Escape * Aren't Men Beasts! * Yes, Madam?...
- Jack Lawton - Aubrey MallalieuAubrey MallalieuAubrey Mallalieu was an English actor with a prolific career in supporting roles in films in the 1930s and 1940s....
- Judge - Wallace DouglasWallace Douglas-Selected filmography:* The Love Wager * Music Hath Charms * The Last Adventurers * The Chinese Bungalow * Spies of the Air -External links:...
- George Sheridan - Edith SharpeEdith Sharpe-Selected filmography:* The Education of Elizabeth * Music Hath Charms * The Tenth Man * When the Bough Breaks * That Dangerous Age * Landfall * No Place for Jennifer...
- Miss Wilkinson - Gus McNaughtonGus McNaughtonGus McNaughton was an English film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1930 and 1947.He was born in London and died in Castor, Cambridgeshire.-Selected filmography:* Children of Chance...
- Goodwin - Hugh DempsterHugh DempsterHugh Dempster was a British theatre and film actor.Born in London, Dempster began his screen career in the silent film era...
- Tony Blower - Cyril SmithCyril Smith (actor)Cyril Bruce Smith was a Scottish actor who began his career as a child in the 1900s and went on to appear in over 100 films between 1914 and his death almost 50 years later.-Career:...
as BBC Producer