Father’s Doing Fine

Date: 1952
Director: Henry Cass
Production Company: Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), Marble Arch Productions

Stars: Richard Attenborough, Heather Thatcher, Noel Purcell, George Thorpe, Diane Hart, Susan Stephen, Mary Germaine, Virginia McKenna. Jack Watling, Peter Hammond
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

The love lives of an impoverished widow’s four daughters are played out as one is about to give birth to her first child.

Additional Information:

Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

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Outside the home of Lady Buckering Shaughnessy (Noel Purcell) asks for the newspaper to be told by the Delivery Boy that money is owed to the newsagent. One of the studio sets at Elstree where much of the action takes place.

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  • 'Now' required

With his expectant wife Doreen inside, Dougall Pitchford (Richard Attenborough) fails to stop his sister in law Bicky running from the house and hailing a taxi. Elstree Studios once again.

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  • 04 Jul 2021

Views of London Zoo are seen as Dougall takes time away from the chaotic home of Lady Buckering.

This is or was the Sea Lion's Pond, now occupied by a tiger compound. SJ

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  • 04 Jul 2021

Looking over the Mappin Terraces at London Zoo in Regent's Park NW1.

The Mappin Terraces are currently deserted apart from a couple of ostriches and wallabies. And this is the nearest one can get to the angle as the walkway is sealed off. So this is shot from the far right of the "then". SJ

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  • 03 Oct 2019
No 32 Godfrey Street, London SW3 Circa 1952

After an argument at Lady Buckering's, Roland Wade (Peter Hammond) demands to know where his girlfriend Bicky (Susan Stephen) is going. This section of street looks real enough. Dave identifies this as No 32 Godfrey Street, London SW3 (RL)

No 32 Godfrey Street, London SW3

Despite structural changes to the frontage and vigorous wisteria we can see it's the same double fronted house with square section downpipes in Dave's supporting shot. (RL)

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  • 03 Oct 2019
No 29 Godfrey Street, London SW3 Circa 1952

A jealous Roly calls Bicky a Jezebel before she pushes him to the ground. Here Dave tells us, they stand outside No 29 Godfrey Street, London SW3 (RL)

No shocking language was heard in the vicinity of number 29 when Dave visited. The unchanged door style is a pleasing extra. (RL)

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  • 03 Oct 2019
25 Godfrey Street, London SW3 Circa 1952

Picking himself up, Roly chases Bicky when she runs away. Dave W recognised that angled Chelsea bollard and identifies 25 Godfrey Street, London SW3 (RL)

25 Godfrey Street, London SW3

Dave found that the unwritten rule that one lamp post must have moved is satisfied in this "now" shot. And asks whether the Chelsea bollard become slightly less tired over the years? (RL)

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  • 03 Oct 2019
No 37 Godfrey Street, London SW3 Circa 1952

Bicky arrives outside the home of her brother in law Wilfred. Cut to what has the appearance of a set, but that GPO cover plate told Dave all he needed to know that we are now looking at No 37 Godfrey Street, London SW3 (RL)

No 37 Godfrey Street, London SW3

Dave found this to be the hardest of the Godfrey St set to match to its capture due to doorway and window frame changes. Aside from the GPO cover plate, he notes the suspended bay of the window and the matching decorative support to the narrow door canopy on the extreme left. (RL)

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  • 04 Jul 2021

A last look at the zoo, where Dougall is having trouble with chimpanzees, before the final fifty minutes of the film play out at the studio. London Zoo in Regent's Park NW1.

This may not quite the correct grass bed, but it's one of few that remain in the centre of the zoo, an area once known as the Elephant Walk. SJ