Rent Talking Feet (1937)
3.2 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 8min
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- Synopsis:
A story set in the East End of London where the local hospital is faced with closure unless funds are raised. The local fishmongers daughter (Hazel Ascot) a British "Shirley Temple", Hoofer puts together a variety show (o raise the money. "Enid Stamp-Taylor" also stars with "The Dagenham Girl Pipers", "The Scots Kilties Band", "The Band of The H.M. Royal Marines" and many more. Hazel Ascot was a champion child tap-dancer of the 1930's. Her first film appearance was in this 1937 musical film "Talking Feet". This film, made at Sound City (later Shepperton Studios), was produced and directed by John Baxter. It was while John Baxter was looking for rehearsal rooms for a proposed film to be titled "Music Hall" that he chanced upon Hazel, whose father Duggie Ascot ran a dance academy in Charing Cross Road. - Actors:
- Hazel Ascot, Jack Barty, Davy Burnaby, Enid Stamp-Taylor, John Stuart, Ernest Butcher, Edgar Driver, Muriel George, Kenneth Kove, Robert English, Scott Sanders, Jennie Gregson, Duggie Ascot, Douglas Burley, Nora D'Argel, Dagenham Girl Pipers, Sonny Farrar, Gordon Ray Girls, May Hallatt, Mark Hambourg
- Directors:
- John Baxter
- Producers:
- John Baxter
- Writers:
- Jack Francis, H. Fowler Mear, Geoffrey Orme
- Studio:
- Renown Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Music & Musicals
