The George Formby Film Collection [DVD] [2009]

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Come On George! (1939)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. Leng, Simon (2003). While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison. New York: Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4234-0609-9. George Formby Sr, "Standing on the Corner of the Street"; his luxury item was his first ukulele. [153] [154] A boot boy at a prestigious hotel falls in love with a maid who is a niece of a wealthy hotel guest. He Snoops to Conquer (1944)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014.

Pratt, Vic. "Turned Out Nice Again (1941)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . 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] Feather Your Nest (1936)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 22 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. Much Too Shy (1942)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014.a b "Filmography: Formby, George". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 19 January 2009 . Retrieved 27 May 2014. Turned Out Nice Again (1941)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. 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] A prop man with a touring ice ballet invents a new mini camera concealed in a bow-tie. He inadvertently takes a compromising photo of a crook at work. I'm just a clown without the make-up, the circus clown who magnifies the reactions of ordinary people to the things that happen around them".

Terry-Thomas; Daum, Terry (1990). Terry-Thomas Tells Tales. London: Robson Books. ISBN 978-0-86051-662-0. George Formby (1904–1961) 2004 Hall of Fame Inductee". The Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014 . Retrieved 17 July 2014. Riding Around on a Rainbow". Performed by George Formby and Florence Desmond and written by Fred E. Cliffe The film was released in late October 1935 and was an immediate commercial success. [10] It was reissued in 1938, 1946 and 1957. In 1936, the film put Formby fourth on the list of top box-office draws at the cinema in the UK. [11] 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.

I See Ice!". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012 . Retrieved 28 May 2014. 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] Wilkes, Roger (19 May 2001). "Beryldene The death of George Formby's wife freed him from a loveless marriage, but new-found bliss was brief". The Daily Telegraph. London. p.4.

George Formby Discography". The George Formby Society. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014 . Retrieved 28 May 2014. 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] 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]Napper, Lawrence. "Dean, Basil (1888–1978)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 19 June 2014. An eager-to-please show business agent hires a more capable singer in the place of an untalented opera performer. Mistakenly Formby's character lays himself open to a bribe by stating that he "wouldn't ride again for fifty quid", a bribe which Turner is happy to pay, and ensures such by taking the Shuttleworth Snap up to the Marine Drive where Formby's character rides it over a cliff.