Turned Out Nice Again is a British

United Kingdom

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 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 film starring Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

-born George Formby. The film was released in 1941

1941 in film

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 and filmed at Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios

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, London

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.

Sypnosis

Turned Out Nice Again begins with a slapstick

Slapstick

Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated violence and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense.- Origins :The phrase comes from the batacchio or bataccio — called the 'slap stick' in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in Commedia dell'arte...

 comedy sequence, highlighting Formby's knockabout credentials. The film quickly develops into a cleverly constructed and well written character comedy, with George Formby as a more competent, sensible figure than the gormless policeman of his previous film, Spare a Copper

Spare a Copper

Spare a Copper is a 1940 British, black-and-white, musical comedy war film, directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Ronald Shiner, as the Piano Mover and Tuner, and George Formby. It was produced by Associated Talking Pictures...

(1940).

Plot

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Peasron then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.

Songs

The songs performs by George Formby in the film are as follows: -

• Auntie Maggies Remedy (Formby/Latta)
• You Can't Go Wrong In These (MacDougal)
• The Emperor Of Lancashire (MacDougal)
• You're Everything To Me (MacDougal)

Ironically, Formby's song "Turned Out Nice Again" does not appear in this film at all.

Cast list

• George Formby as George Pearson
• Peggy Bryan
  Peggy Bryan
  Margaret Eileen "Peggy" Bryan was an English film and stage actress, born in Birmingham, England. She appeared in many films, including most notably as the screen wife of George Formby in the comedy film Turned Out Nice Again...
  
   as Lydia Pearson
• Edward Chapman
  Edward Chapman (actor)
  Edward Chapman was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr. Wilfred Grimsdale", the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.Chapman was born in...
  
   as Uncle Arnold
• Elliott Mason as Mrs Pearson
• Mackenzie Ward as Gerald Dawson
• O. B. Clarence as Mr Dawson
• Ronald Ward
  Ronald Ward
  Ronald Ward was a British actor who appeared in more than twenty British films between 1931 and 1956. He was born in Eastbourne in 1901 as Ronald William Ward, and made his screen debut in the 1931 film Alibi...
  
   as Nelson
• John Salew
  John Salew
  -Selected filmography:* The Silent Battle * Sailors Don't Care * Once a Crook * One of Our Aircraft Is Missing * The Day Will Dawn * Secret Mission * It Always Rains on Sunday...
  
   as Largon
• Wilfrid Hyde-White
  Wilfrid Hyde-White
  Wilfrid Hyde-White was an English character actor.-Early life and career:Wilfrid Hyde White was born at the rectory in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, the son of William Edward White, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide Drought...
  
   as Removal man
• Hay Petrie
  Hay Petrie
  Hay Petrie , born David Hay Petrie, was a Scottish actor noted for playing eccentric characters, among them Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop , the McLaggen in The Ghost Goes West and Uncle Pumblechook in Great Expectations .Hay Petrie went to St Andrew’s Academy, Dundee, and St...
  
   as Drunk
• Michael Rennie
  Michael Rennie
  Michael Rennie was an English film, television, and stage actor, perhaps best known for his starring role as the space visitor Klaatu in the 1951 classic science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. However, he appeared in over 50 other films since 1936, many with Jean Simmons and other...
  
  as Diner

External links

• Screenonline info and review