Elstree Calling (1930)

Movie Details

Original Title Elstree Calling

Original Language EN

Status Released

Popularity 0.8

Cast

Tommy Handley

The Host

Popularity: 1.7

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Teddy Brown

Himself

Popularity: 0.1

Donald Calthrop

Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew

Popularity: 0.9

Jack Hulbert

Himself

Popularity: 2.4

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Helen Burnell

Herself

Popularity: 0.8

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The Three Eddies

Themselves

Popularity: 0.7

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Lily Morris

Herself

Popularity: 0.0

Will Fyffe

Himself

Popularity: 1.2

Cicely Courtneidge

Herself

Popularity: 0.5

John Longden

Himself

Popularity: 9.2

Anna May Wong

Herself / Katherina in Taming of the Shrew

Popularity: 1.9

Bobbie Comber

Herself

Popularity: 1.5

Key Crew

Director Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray

Editor A.C. Hammond, Emile de Ruelle

Executive Producer John Maxwell

Writer Val Valentine, Walter C. Mycroft, Adrian Brunel

Production

British International Pictures

Keywords

tap dancing black and white vaudeville shakespeare in modern dress blackface skit variety show xylophone player russian song part in color music hall song romantic song

Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf 5/10

Aug 29, 2022

A distinctly off-form Tommy Handley introduces this rather curious piece of cinematic entertainment that features a variety of stars from the British stage at the end of the 1920s. The mixture of musical, comedy and magical turns illustrates well just quite how a real pot-pourri of acts took to the ... Read more