Britannia of Billingsgate (1933)
1h 20m
Running Time
January 1, 1933Release Date
Britannia of Billingsgate (1933)
1h 20m
Running Time
January 1, 1933Release Date
Plot.
The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Violet Loraine
Bessie Bolton
Gordon Harker
Bert Bolton
Kay Hammond
Pearl Bolton
John Mills
Fred Bolton
Drusilla Wills
Mrs. Wigglesworth
Walter Sondes
Harold Hogarth
Glennis Lorimer
Maud
Joyce Kirby
Joan
Anthony Holles
Guidobaldi
Ernest Sefton
Publicity Man
Grethe Hansen
Gwen
H.F. Maltby
Writer
Gibb McLaughlin
Westerbrook
Wally Patch
Harry
Sinclair Hill
Director
Christine Jope-Slade
Writer
Sewell Stokes
Writer
Jane Cornell
Fay
Ralph Stock
Writer
Cecil Ramage
Producer
G.H. Moresby-White
Writer
Ron Johnson
Dirt Track Rider
Mutz Greenbaum
Cinematographer
Gus Kuhn
Dirt Track Rider
Fredrick Y. Smith
Editor
Colin Watson
Dirt Track Rider
Tom Farndon
Dirt Track Rider
Claude Rye
Dirt Track Rider
Arthur Warwick
Dirt Track Rider
Roy Fox
Bandleader
George Turner
Pal
Michael Balcon
Producer
Details.
Wiki.
Britannia of Billingsgate is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker, Kay Hammond and John Mills. A family who work in the fish trade at Billingsgate Market encounter a film crew who are shooting there. It was based on the play Britannia of Billingsgate by Christine Jope-Slade and Sewell Stokes.It was shot at the Lime Grove Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Junge.