Trottie True (1949)
1h 36m
Running Time
September 29, 1949Release Date
Trottie True (1949)
1h 36m
Running Time
September 29, 1949Release Date
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Plot.
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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Cast & Crew.
Jean Kent
Trottie True
James Donald
Lord Digby Landon
Andrew Crawford
Sid Skinner
Hugh Sinclair
Maurice Beckenham
Bill Owen
Joe Jugg
Lana Morris
Bouncie Barrington
Michael Medwin
Monty, Marquis of Maidenhead
Brian Desmond Hurst
Director
S.J. Simon
Writer
Christopher Lee
Hon. Bongo Icklesham
Caryl Brahms
Writer
Denis Freeman
Writer
Harcourt Williams
Duke Of Wellwater
Hugh Stewart
Producer
Heather Thatcher
Angela Platt Brown
Benjamin Frankel
Composer
Harold Scott
Mr True
Joan Young
Mrs True
Dilys Laye
Trottie as a child
Carole Lesley
Clare as a child
Anthony Steel
The Bellaires' footman
Hattie Jacques
Daisy Delaware
Roger Moore
Stage Door Johnny (uncredited)
David Lines
Perce as a child
Tony Halfpenny
Perce True
Daphne Anderson
Bertha True
Campbell Cotts
Saintsbury
Mary Hinton
Duchess of Wellwater
Katharine Blake
Ruby Rubarto
Lyndon Brook
Bit Role (uncredited)
Olwen Brookes
Lady Talman (uncredited)
Irene Browne
Duchess (uncredited)
Patrick Cargill
Party Guest (uncredited)
Ian Carmichael
Bill the Postman (uncredited)
Francis de Wolff
George Edwardes
Howard Douglas
Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
John Fabian
Stage Door Johnnie (uncredited)
Gretchen Franklin
Martha (uncredited)
Helen Goss
Mrs. Bellaire (uncredited)
Elspet Gray
Honor Bellaire (uncredited)
May Hallatt
Old Ellen (uncredited)
Arthur Hambling
Mr. Jupp
W.E. Holloway
Old Vinegar (uncredited)
Mary Jones
Gladys True (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
'Bedford' Stage Manager (uncredited)
Andreas Malandrinos
Head Waiter (uncredited)
Doris Rogers
Hon. Mrs. Seaton (uncredited)
Leonard Sharp
Carter (uncredited)
Constance Smith
Gaiety Girl (uncredited)
Philip Stainton
Arthur Briggs (uncredited)
Philip Strange
Earl of Burney (uncredited)
John Vere
The Bellaires' Butler (uncredited)
Jack Vyvyan
Uncle Sam (uncredited)
Elsie Wagstaff
Dependant Relative (uncredited)
Michael Ward
Pianist at Ball (uncredited)
Ian Wilson
Bert (uncredited)
Details.
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Wiki.
Trottie True is a 1949 British musical comedy film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Jean Kent, James Donald and Hugh Sinclair. It was known as The Gay Lady in the US, and is an infrequent British Technicolor film of the period. According to BFI Screenonline, "British 1940s Technicolor films offer an abundance of visual pleasures, especially when lovingly restored by the National Film Archive. Trottie True is not among the best known, but comes beautifully packaged, gift wrapped with all the trimmings." The film is based on a novel by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon, published in 1946. The New York Times called it "a typical Gay nineties success story" that "amuses but never convulses the reader."