Second Best Bed
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Second Best Bed is a 1938 British
comedy film
directed by Tom Walls
and starring Walls, Jane Baxter
and Veronica Rose
. It was based on a story by Ben Travers
. A newly married couple soon run into domestic difficulties when the wife refuses to obey her husband's every order.
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 Tom Walls
Tom Walls
Tom Kirby Walls was a popular English stage and motion-pictures character actor, and film director. He has claim to be one of the most influential figures in British comedy.-Early career:...
and starring Walls, Jane Baxter
Jane Baxter
Jane Baxter was a British actress. Her stage career spanned half a century, and she appeared in a number of films and in television.-Early life:...
and Veronica Rose
Veronica Rose
-Selected filmography:* A Cup of Kindness * Stormy Weather * Second Best Bed * Old Iron * Warn That Man * Death in High Heels...
. It was based on a story by Ben Travers
Ben Travers
Ben Travers AFC CBE in London) was a British playwright best remembered for his farces.Born in the London borough of Hendon, Travers was educated at Charterhouse, where today there is a theatre named for him...
. A newly married couple soon run into domestic difficulties when the wife refuses to obey her husband's every order.
Cast
- Tom WallsTom WallsTom Kirby Walls was a popular English stage and motion-pictures character actor, and film director. He has claim to be one of the most influential figures in British comedy.-Early career:...
- Victor Garnett - Jane BaxterJane BaxterJane Baxter was a British actress. Her stage career spanned half a century, and she appeared in a number of films and in television.-Early life:...
- Patricia Lynton - Veronica RoseVeronica Rose-Selected filmography:* A Cup of Kindness * Stormy Weather * Second Best Bed * Old Iron * Warn That Man * Death in High Heels...
- Jenny Murdoch - Carl JaffeCarl JaffeCarl Jaffe was a German Jewish actor. Jaffe trained on the stage in his native Hamburg, Kassel and Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin, where his career took off....
- Georges Dubonnet - Greta GyntGreta GyntGreta Gynt , born Margrethe Woxholt, was a Norwegian singer, dancer and actress. -Biography:Greta Gynt was born Margrethe Woxholt in Oslo, Norway. As a child, she came with her parents to England and started dancing lessons at the age of 5. Eventually, they moved back to Norway...
- Yvonne - Edward LexyEdward Lexy-Filmography:* Under Secret Orders * Mademoiselle Docteur * Farewell Again * Knight Without Armour * Action for Slander * Smash and Grab * The Green Cockatoo...
- Murdoch - Tyrell DavisTyrell Davis-Selected filmography:* His Glorious Night * Let Us Be Gay * Strictly Unconventional * The Magnificent Lie * The Road to Singapore * Temptation's Workshop * Our Betters...
- Whittaker - Mae BaconMae Bacon-Selected filmography:* The Public Life of Henry the Ninth * Riding High * Second Best Bed * Ten Days in Paris * Pool of London...
- Mrs Whittaker - Ethel ColeridgeEthel Coleridge-Selected filmography:* Rookery Nook * Plunder * Laburnum Grove * The Lonely Road * Feather Your Nest * Penny Paradise * When We Are Married * The Loves of Joanna Godden...
- Mrs Knuckle - Davy BurnabyDavy BurnabyDavy Burnaby was a British actor who appeared in more than thirty films between 1929 and 1948. He was born in Buckland, Hertfordshire and made his screen debut in the 1929 film The Devil's Maze. He died in 1949....
- Lord Kingston - Martita HuntMartita HuntMartita Hunt was an English theatre and film actress.-Early life:Hunt was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 30 January 1900 to British parents Alfred and Marta Hunt...
- Mrs Mather - Gordon JamesGordon JamesGordon James was a British actor who appeared in some twenty films between 1929 and 1942.Born in Manchester on 22 July 1878 as Sydney Lynn, he made his first screen appearance in the 1929 film Atlantic. He was the brother of Ralph Lynn who enjoyed enormous success as a comedy actor in the 1930s...
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