Stop Press Girl is a 1949 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

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 fantasy

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 comedy film

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 directed by Michael Barry

Michael Barry

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 and starring Sally Ann Howes

Sally Ann Howes

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, Gordon Jackson

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, Basil Radford

Basil Radford

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 and Naunton Wayne

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; the latter two appearing in several different roles in the film.

Plot

Jennifer Peters is a normal girl except for one unfortunate trait. All the women in her family stop any mechanical contrivance that they travel in. As the film progresses, Jennifer stops her boyfriend's automobile, then a train she travels in without being aware of what she does. Tension mounts when a girlfriend takes ill and Jennifer takes her job; an air hostess

Air Hostess

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 on a Liberator

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 airliner

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Main cast

• Sally Ann Howes
  Sally Ann Howes
  Sally Ann Howes is a British actress and singer, who currently holds dual British-American citizenship. Her career on stage, screen and television has spanned over six decades...
  
   - Jennifer Peters
• Gordon Jackson
  Gordon Jackson (actor)
  Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE was a Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals....
  
   - Jock Meville
• Basil Radford
  Basil Radford
  Basil Radford was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his first stage appearance in July 1924...
  
   - The Mechanical Type
• Naunton Wayne
  Naunton Wayne
  Naunton Wayne , was a British character actor, born in Llanwonno, South Wales. He was educated at Clifton College....
  
   - The Mechanical Type
• James Robertson Justice
  James Robertson Justice
  James Robertson Justice was a popular British character actor in British films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.-Biography:...
  
   - Arthur
• Sonia Holm
  Sonia Holm
  -Filmography:* The Loves of Joanna Godden * When the Bough Breaks * Miranda * Broken Journey * The Calendar * Warning to Wantons * The Bad Lord Byron * Stop Press Girl...
  
   - Angela Carew
• Nigel Buchanan - Rory Fairfax
• Joyce Barbour - Aunt Mab
• Campbell Cotts - John Fairfax
• Cyril Chamberlain
  Cyril Chamberlain
  Cyril Chamberlain was an English film and television actor. He appeared in a number of the early Carry On, Doctor in the House and St. Trinian's films....
  
   - Johnie
• Julia Lang - Carole Saunders
• Percy Walsh
  Percy Walsh
  Percy Walsh was a British stage and film actor. His stage work included appearing in the London premieres of R.C.Sherriff's Journey's End and Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and Appointment with Death .-Partial filmography:*The Diplomatic Lover * Dirty Work * Admirals All...
  
   - Editor, Evening Comet
• Oliver Burt - Editor, Morning Sun
• Kenneth More
  Kenneth More
  Kenneth Gilbert More CBE was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.-Early life:Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the...
  
   - Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'
• Humphrey Lestocq - Radio Commentator
• Michael Goodliffe
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  - McPherson