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Shipyard Sally

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Shipyard Sally
Directed byMonty Banks
Written byDon Ettlinger
Gracie Fields
Thomas J. Geraghty
Karl Tunberg
Val Valentine
Produced byRobert Kane
StarringGracie Fields
Sydney Howard
Norma Varden
CinematographyOtto Kanturek
Edited byR. E. Dearing
Alfred Roome
Music byLouis Levy
Production
company
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox
Release date
  • 16 October 1939 (1939-10-16) (UK)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Shipyard Sally is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard and Norma Varden.[1] The film is notable for the song "Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye", which became a major hit.[2]

Plot

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Sally, a failed music hall performer, and her father take over a pub near the John Brown & Company shipyard at Clydebank. When the closure of the yard threatens to put many out of work she leads a campaign to persuade the government to reconsider the decision.

Production

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Made shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, it was Fields' last British film.[3] It was shot at Islington Studios with sets designed by Alex Vetchinsky.[4]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Shipyard Sally (1939)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Shipyard Sally (1939) - Monty Banks - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  3. ^ Shafer p.186
  4. ^ Wood p.101

Bibliography

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  • Shafer, Stephen C. British Popular Films 1929–1939:The Cinema of Reassurance. Rutledge, 1997.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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