Feather Your Nest

Feather Your Nest is a 1937 British musical comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring George Formby, Polly Ward and Enid Stamp-Taylor. It contains Formby's signature tune, Leaning on a Lamp-post.

Plot

A worker at a gramophone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song, "Leaning on a Lamp-post".

Cast

• George Formby as Willie Piper
• Polly Ward as Mary Taylor
• Enid Stamp-Taylor as Daphne Randall
• Val Rosing as Rex Randall
• Davy Burnaby as Sir Martin
• Jack Barty as Mr Chester
• Clifford Heatherley as Randall's valet
• Frederick Burtwell as Murgatroyd
• Ethel Coleridge as Mrs Taylor
• Jimmy Godden as Mr Higgins
• Moore Marriott as Mr Jenkins
• Syd Crossley as Police Constable
• Frank Perfitt as Studio manager
• Frederick Piper as Green
• Mike Johnson as Charlie
• Leonard Sharp as Mr. Peabody
• Harry Terry as Furniture Thief
• Hal Walters as Man Outside Furniture Shop
• Edie Martin as Blanche

Critical reception

• Halliwell's Film Guide observed "the star in less farcical vein than usual"
• TV Guide concluded, "not one of Formby's best films, but mildly enjoyable, nonetheless".

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Perry, George. Forever Ealing. Pavilion Books, 1994.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

• Feather Your Nest at GeorgeFormby.co.uk

References