On July 29th, British actress Jean Kent celebrated her 90th birthday. This is the local ITV News item from ITN Anglia. Jean lives in a quiet Suffolk village, and I think you'll agree this is a charming film for a great lady.
Margaret would have been 95 today, 15th September 2011. She was born on this day in 1916, and died on 15 July 1990. She was 73. Here are two TV news reports of her death from the UK. RIP Margaret, you will never be forgotten.
The British National Film Awards in London, England. Actor James Mason receives the outstanding British Film Actor Award for the year 1946. Margaret Lockwood receives the outstanding British Film Actress Award for the year 1946.
British Cinema Legend Margaret Lockwood's appearance on Saturday Night at the Mill - BBC, 19 April 1980. She was promoting her last acting work, 'Motherdear', a stage play. It's one of very few filmed interviews that exist of this great lady. Sadly she spent most of the rest of her life in seclusion at her Richmond home, where she lived until she died aged 73 in July 1990.
Happy 90th Birthday Jean Kent! The star of classic Gainsborough Melodramas appeared in this Boris Karloff horror film in 1958 as music hall star Cora - here she is singing her theme song, interrupted by some ghoulish goings-on! Not for the faint-hearted!
In a surreal Emmerdale scene broadcast on Christmas Day 2010, Gennie Dingle (Sian Reese-Williams) and Katie Sugden (Sammy Winward) lament real life vs fantasy, after Chas has jilted her two-timing fiance Carl.
The opening logo for Gainsborough Pictures, 1926-48 (I think).
This one is for Caravan (1946), starring Stewart Granger, Anne Crawford, Jean Kent and Dennis Price. One of the famous "Gainsborough Melodramas".
Jessie Matthews, Britain's Queen of musicals in the 1930s, guest starred in a 1976 episode of the medical drama 'Angels', produced by Julia Smith, who went on to produce EastEnders.
The song was introduced by Alice Faye in the 1943 film Hello Frisco, Hello, for which it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song.
From the 1960 film 'The Shakedown', starring Terence Morgan and Hazel Court (featured in this scene). Written by prolific musical director Philip Green.
From the film 'Feather Your Nest' (1937). Sorry about the picture break-up, but for some reason this film hasn't been shown on television, or released on video or DVD. Perhaps if you feel like me, you might like to email Optimum and ask them to do another Formby boxset!info@optimumr eleasing.com
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Our George sings to child star Binkie Stuart in the film 'Keep Your Seats Please' (1936).
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George and Florence duet in his debut Ealing-ATP film 'No Limit' (1936).
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From his debut Ealing-ATP film 'No Limit' (1936).
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