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.
- 5.5
- 1933
- Released
- 1h 20m
Violet Loraine
Bessie Bolton
Gordon Harker
Bert Bolton
Kay Hammond
Pearl Bolton
John Mills
Fred Bolton
Drusilla Wills
Mrs. WigglesworthWalter Sondes
Harold Hogarth
Glennis Lorimer
MaudAnthony Holles
Guidobaldi
Joyce Kirby
Joan
Gibb McLaughlin
WesterbrookGrethe Hansen
GwenWally Patch
HarryErnest Sefton
Publicity ManJane Cornell
Fay
Cecil Ramage
ProducerRon Johnson
Dirt Track RiderGus Kuhn
Dirt Track RiderTom Farndon
Dirt Track RiderClaude Rye
Dirt Track RiderArthur Warwick
Dirt Track RiderRoy Fox
Bandleader
Ian Wilson
George Turner
PalReleased
en
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This is actually quite a cheery little feature that sees fish and chip shop owner "Bessie" (established theatre star Violet Loraine) aspire to become a film star. Fat chance thinks you! Well, as it happens she has a decent enough singing voice and when she is "discovered" by a local studio, her life with family "Bert" (Gordon Harker), "Pearl" (Kay Hammond) and "Fred" (John Mills) is suddenly all t