He Found a Star
Date: 1941
Director: John Paddy Carstairs
Production Company: John Corfield Productions
Stars: Vic Oliver, Sarah Churchill, Evelyn Dall
Location(s): London
Region(s): London H-L
Storyline:
A theatrical agent and his loyal secretary use their talent agency to find and help unknowns who need an opportunity to become the next big star.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
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Following a night time drive around London's West End which is obscured by the credits, the production gets under way on the stage of the Theatre Royal where Diane sings a medley of Scottish themed songs. The canopy looks real enough but the theatre's name and marquee appear to have been added in post.
- Capture 2
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Although a set, this capture features Lucky Lyndon (Vic Oliver) with Ruth Cavour (Sarah Churchill) and her father Victor Cavour (J.H. Roberts) talk together outside the family home near the river.
- Capture 3
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Another fake marquee which has the appearance of a matte next to an authentic building.
- Capture 4
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Having set up Lyndons Theatrical Agency on Shaftesbury Avenue, after weeks of auditions Lucky and Ruth put on Max Nagel's show featuring ungrateful nightclub singer Suzanne.
- Capture 5
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Cars drop their passengers outside the Empire Theatre. Antony Blair recognised the Gaumont Palace on Queen Caroline Street W6. The building was renamed to the Hammersmith Odeon in 1962. Christopher Matheson highlights the fact that this sequence (see also the next capture) appears to be recycled from ‘Britannia of Billingsgate’ (1933), see Captures 9 and 10 on his Website www.londononlocation.co.uk (RL)
- Capture 6
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Street Performers entertain and Street Traders sell their wares to the crowds flocking to the theatre. The Grade II* listed Gaumont Palace in Hammersmith identified by Antony Blair. See previous capture. (RL)