Sing as We Go
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Sing as We Go is a 1934 British musical film starring Gracie Fields and Stanley Holloway.
Script: Gordon Wellesley, J.B. Priestley
Director: Basil Dean
Considered by many to be British music hall star Gracie Fields' finest vehicle, this film was written for her by leading novelist J.B. Priestley. A morale-boosting depression movie, set in the industrial north of England, Fields stars as a resourceful, spunky working class hero, laid off from her job in a clothing mill, who has to seek work in the seaside resort of Blackpool. This gives her the opportunity both to fall into many misadventures, and of course, to sing.
The decision, rare at the time, to film on location, is a stroke of genius, bringing the film a life and immediacy all too absent from most films of the period. Inadvertently the film provides us with perhaps our finest surviving snapshot of life in a seaside resort in the 1930s. Fields reacts well to the environment and produces one of her best and most spontneous performances. The final scene of the millworkers returning to the re-opened mill while Fields leads them in the rousing title song, has become an almost iconic film cliché.
[edit] Trivia
- The main theme of this movie, the song "Sing as We Go" (written by Harry Parr Davies), was used by the comedy group Monty Python in a song that had the same melody but different lyrics, called "Sit on My Face".
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