Radio Parade of 1935
- 12 December 1934 (1934-12-12)
Radio Parade of 1935 (1934), released in the US as Radio Follies, is a British comedy film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Will Hay, Clifford Mollison and Helen Chandler.[1][2] It followed on from the 1933 film Radio Parade.
Plot
The film tells the story of the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (Will Hay), who promotes the ambitious Head of Complaints to Programme Director (Clifford Mollison) in an attempt to stem the number of complaints he is receiving owing to the station's overly intellectual programming. In 1930s British slang, the acronym "NBG" stood for "no bloody good". The character played by Hay is clearly intended to be a satirical parody of Lord Reith, and the NBG the BBC.
Cast
- Will Hay as Director General William Garlon/Garland[3]
- Helen Chandler as Joan Garland, the DG's daughter
- Clifford Mollison as Jimmy Clare, Complaints Manager
- Davy Burnaby as Maj. Gen. Sir Frederick Fotheringhay
- Robert Nainby as Col. Egbert Featherstone Haugh-Haugh, 2nd Assistant
- Jimmy Godden as Lt. Comm. Vere de V. de Vere, 3rd Assistant
- Basil Foster as Capt. Esme St. J. Entwistle, 4th Assistant
- Ivor McLaren as Fl. Lieut. Eric Lyttle Lyttle, 5th Assistant
- Billy Bennett as The Commissionaire
- Hugh E. Wright as Algernon Bird, The Inventor
- Lily Morris and Nellie Wallace as Two Charladies
- The Western Brothers as Two Announcers
- The Three Sailors as Assistants to Complaints Manager
- Haver and Lee as Two Effects Men
- The Carlyle Cousins as Three Telephonists
- Georgie Harris as Chief Page Boy
- Gerry Fitzgerald and Arthur Young as Two Window Cleaners
- Claude Dampier as A Piano Tuner
- Teddy Joyce And His Band
- Alfred Drayton as Carl Graham, Head of the Theatre Trust
- Denier Warren as His Personal Assistant
- Clapham and Dwyer as Two Reporters
- Eve Becke
- Fay Carroll
- Peggy Cochrane
- Yvette Darnac
- Ronald Frankau
- Alberta Hunter
- Joyce Richardson
- Ted Ray
- Stanelli And His Hornchestra
- The Buddy Bradley Girls
- Fred Conyngham
- Beryl Orde
Production background and preservation status
Two sequences in the film were filmed in Dufaycolor. The film is extant.
See also
References
- ^ "Radio Parade of 1935 (1934)". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016.
- ^ "Radio Follies (1935) - Arthur B. Woods | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
- ^ The DG's name is spelled Garlon on the door of the character's office in the first few scenes but referred to in speech as Garland
External links
- Radio Parade of 1935 at IMDb
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