The Street Singer (1937 film)

The Street Singer (aka, Interval for Romance) is a 1937 British musical film directed by Jean de Marguenat and starring Arthur Tracy, Margaret Lockwood and Arthur Riscoe. The screenplay concerns a famous musician who is mistaken for a street singer. It was an early role for Margaret Lockwood. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin Scharf.

Plot

Richard, a famous musical comedy star, is mistaken for a beggar by an orphan, Jenny.

Cast

• Arthur Tracy as Richard King
• Arthur Riscoe as Sam Green
• Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Green
• Hugh Wakefield as Hugh Newman
• Emile Boreo as Luigi
• Ellen Pollock as Gloria Weston
• Wally Patch as Policeman
• Ian McLean as Police Inspector
• John Deverell as James
• Rawicz and Landauer as Specialty Act
• Lew Stone and His Band

Production

The film was produced by a woman, Dora Nirva, making her the first woman to be credited as producer of a British film.

The movie was devised as a vehicle for Arthur Tracy. Margaret Lockwood was borrowed from Gainsborough to play the female lead. Her biographer wrote "Margaret’s role reduced her to little more than a ‘feed’ for Tracy as a girl busker who mistakes him for a tramp and takes him under her wing."

The movie was known as Interval for Romance and was filmed in late 1936. It was the first in a series of productions for British National.

Reception

Variety called it "a Prince Charming story which should have considerable appeal to the populace."

Picturegoer called it "an unpretentious British musical."

References

External links

• The Street Singer at TCMDB
• The Street Singer at Britmovie
• Review of film at Variety