Everybody Dance (film)

Everybody Dance is a 1936 British musical film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Ernest Truex, Percy Parsons and Alma Taylor. The film's sets were designed by Alex Vetchinsky. It was made at Islington Studios.

Sidney Gilliat called it "dreadful".

Plot

When a successful nightclub singer (Cicely Courtneidge) finds herself guardian to her late sisters children, she ditches her singing career and takes the kids to live on a farm. Her manager is less than happy and resorts to legal means to try and stop her.

Cast

• Cicely Courtneidge as Katharine 'Lady Kate' Levering
• Ernest Truex as Wilbur Spurgeon
• Percy Parsons as Josiah Spurgeon
• Alma Taylor as Rosemary Spurgeon
• Chuck Reisner Jr. as Tony Spurgeon
• Billie De la Volta as Shirley Spurgeon
• Kathleen Harrison as Lucy
• Bruce Winston as Pierre
• C. Denier Warren as Dan Fleming
• Peter Gawthorne as Sir Rowland Morton
• Helen Haye as Lady Morton
• Janet Johnson as Lilian Morton
• Joan Ponsford as Dorothy Morton

References

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

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