Say It with Music is a 1932 British musical drama film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Jack Payne, Percy Marmont and Evelyn Roberts. It was produced by Herbert Wilcox's British and Dominions Films at Elstree Studios.[1] It takes its title from the 1921 song Say It with Music by Irving Berlin which features in the soundtrack, and was an early example of a string of bandleader-centric films produced by British studios during the decade.[2] It is also notable for providing an early acting role for the then-24-year-old William Hartnell, who decades later would go on to portray the First Doctor on Doctor Who.
| Say It with Music | |
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| Directed by | Jack Raymond |
| Written by | William Pollock |
| Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Starring | Jack Payne Percy Marmont Evelyn Roberts |
| Cinematography | Osmond Borradaile |
| Music by | Lew Stone |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service |
Release date |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Synopsis
editA former World War I pilot now working as a top bandleader helps a gifted composer recover from amnesia.
Cast
edit- Jack Payne as Jack Payne
- Percy Marmont as Philip Weston
- Evelyn Roberts as Dr. Longfellow
- Sybil Summerfield as Betty Weston
- Joyce Kennedy as Mrs. Weston
- BBC Dance Orchestra as Themselves
- Freddy Schweitzer as himself
- Anna Lee
- William Hartnell
References
editBibliography
edit- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
- Wright, Adrian. Cheer Up!: British Musical Films 1929-1945. The Boydell Press, 2020.
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