While the Sun Shines is a 1947

1947 in film

The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 22 - Great Expectations is premiered in New York.*November 24 : The United States House of Representatives of the 80th Congress voted 346 to 17 to approve citations for contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten".*November 25...

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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 directed by Anthony Asquith. It was based on Terrence Rattigan's 1943 play of the same name.

Plot

Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men. The first man is Colbert, a Frenchman residing in England. The second man is Joe Mulvaney, an American lieutenant. Difficulties ensue as Randall finds that due to these romances both her military career and her impending marriage are in danger.

Cast

• Barbara White.....Lady Elisabeth Randall
• Michael Allan.....Colbert
• Bonar Colleano.....Joe Mulvaney
• Ronald Howard.....Earl of Harpenden
• Ronald Squire
  Ronald Squire
  Ronald Squire was an English character actor.Born in Tiverton, Devon, England, he spent his early acting career in Liverpool repertory theatre in light comedy roles, before moving on to films...
  
   - Duke of Ayre
• Brenda Bruce
  Brenda Bruce
  Brenda Bruce was a British actress. She had a long and successful career in the theatre, radio, film, and television.-Early life:Brenda Bruce was born in Manchester...
  
   - Mabel Crum
• Miles Malleson
  Miles Malleson
  William Miles Malleson was an English actor and dramatist, particularly known for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the...
  
   - Horton
• Margaret Rutherford
  Margaret Rutherford
  Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford DBE was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest...
  
   - Doctor Winifred Frye
• Cyril Maude
  Cyril Maude
  Cyril Francis Maude was an English actor-manager.-Biography:Maude was born in London and educated at the Charterhouse School. In 1881, he was sent to Adelaide, South Australia, on the clipper ship City of Adelaide to regain his health...
  
   - Admiral
• Garry Marsh
  Garry Marsh
  Garry Marsh was a British film actor. Marsh began acting on the stage at the age of fifteen. He started off in films as a leading man but later became a character actor playing self-important roles.-Filmography:* Long Odds...
  
   - Mr Jordan
• Joyce Grenfell
  Joyce Grenfell
  Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE was an English actress, comedienne, diseuse and singer-songwriter.-Early life:...
  
   - Daphne
• Charles Victor
  Charles Victor
  Charles Victor was a British actor who appeared in a number of films and television between 1938 and 1965.-Selected filmography:* Return of the Frog * Hell's Cargo * Contraband...
  
   - Tube Train Conductor
• 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...
  
   - Receptionist
• Aubrey Mallalieu
  Aubrey Mallalieu
  Aubrey Mallalieu was an English actor with a prolific career in supporting roles in films in the 1930s and 1940s....
  
  - Night Porter