Everybody Dance (film)

Everybody Dance
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Directed by	Charles Reisner
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Screenplay by	Leslie Arliss Ralph Spence
Based on	a story by Leslie Arliss & Stafford Dickens
Starring	Cicely Courtneidge Ernest Truex Percy Parsons Alma Taylor
Music by	Words & music: Mack Gordon Harry Revel Musical director: Louis Levy
Cinematography	Jack Cox
Edited by	R.E. Dearing
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures Gaumont British
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release date	September 1936 (1936-09) (London, UK)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Everybody Dance is a 1936 British musical film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Ernest Truex, Percy Parsons and Alma Taylor.^[1] The film's sets were designed by Alex Vetchinsky. It was made at Islington Studios.^[2]

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.

External links

Everybody Dance on IMDb