The George Formby Film Collection [DVD] [2009]

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a b c d e UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 11 June 2022. I See Ice!". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012 . Retrieved 28 May 2014.

a b Bret, David (2014). George Formby An Intimate Biography Of The Troubled Genius. Lulu.com. pp. 51–54. A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them. Leigh, Spencer (14 December 2007). "Unfit for Auntie's airwaves: The artists censored by the BBC". The Independent. London. The Times critic wrote in 1940: "the structure of Mr. George Formby's films do not alter very much, and the same blue-print that has done serviceable work in the past was taken out of its drawer for Spare a Copper". [3]With Formby's growing success on stage, Beryl decided it was time for him to move into films. In 1934 she approached the producer Basil Dean, the head of Associated Talking Pictures (ATP). Although he expressed an interest in Formby, he did not like the associated demands from Beryl. She also met the representative of Warner Bros. in the UK, Irving Asher, who was dismissive, saying that Formby was "too stupid to play the bad guy and too ugly to play the hero". Three weeks later Formby was approached by John E. Blakeley of Blakeley's Productions, who offered him a one-film deal. [40] Whitcomb, Ian (2012). Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Books. ISBN 978-1-4584-1654-4. An eager-to-please show business agent hires a more capable singer in the place of an untalented opera performer. He Snoops to Conquer (1944)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014.

A boot boy at a prestigious hotel falls in love with a maid who is a niece of a wealthy hotel guest. Also described as a "hapless 'everyman' character who manages to prevail against overwhelming odds". [51] Baade, Christina L. (2012). Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-537201-4.Formby's screen persona influenced Norman Wisdom in the 1950s and Charlie Drake in the following decade, although both these performers used pathos, which Formby avoided. [209] [215] Fisher describes "Leaning on a Lamp-post" as being "the most perfect expression of [Formby's] charm, at once dignified, touching and humane". He compares it to "Standing at the Corner of the Street" by Formby's father, and writes that Formby's "subdued interpretation" of the song may be because of his father's earlier tune. [61] Filmography: Formby, George". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 19 January 2009 . Retrieved 27 May 2014.

Beryl's absence from the film set was for medical reasons; she either fell from a horse, or was having her appendix removed. [64] Turned Out Nice Again (1941)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. In a 1940 issue, Monthly Film Bulletin called it "a good Formby film...With a better story than most". [3] Womaniser! Depressive! Junkie! By George!; The Bitter Battle for the Memory of One Man and His Little Ukulele". The Independent. London. 22 June 1999. pp.1 & 8. a b c d McFarlane, Brian. "Formby, George (1904–1961)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 16 June 2014.The English comic, singer and actor George Formby (1904–1961) performed in many mediums of light entertainment, including film, radio and theatre. His career spanned from 1915 until December 1960. During that time he became synonymous with playing "a shy, innocent, gauche, accident-prone Lancashire lad". [1] ENSA had been formed in 1938, [76] although the formation was actually a re-formation, as the organisation had been active during the First World War. [77]