Elstree Calling

Elstree Calling

Elstree Calling

5.0/ 10

TMDB Rating

21

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1930

Release Year

83 min

Runtime

Music

Comedy

Overview

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Keywords

tap dancing

black and white

vaudeville

blackface

russian music

skit

variety show

xylophone player

music hall song

romantic song

Cast

Tommy Handley

Tommy Handley

The Host

Teddy Brown

Himself

Donald Calthrop

Donald Calthrop

Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew

Jack Hulbert

Jack Hulbert

Himself

Helen Burnell

Herself

The Three Eddies

Themselves

Lily Morris

Lily Morris

Herself

Will Fyffe

Will Fyffe

Himself

Cicely Courtneidge

Cicely Courtneidge

Herself

John Longden

John Longden

Himself

Images

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Reviews(1)

5.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

August 29, 2022

5

5/10

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 …

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