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Britannia of Billingsgate
Film / 1933

Britannia of Billingsgate

Directed by Sinclair Hill
ComedyMusicDrama

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.

The story

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.

Cast

Violet LoraineBessie Bolton Gordon HarkerBert Bolton Kay HammondPearl Bolton John MillsFred Bolton Drusilla WillsMrs. Wigglesworth Walter SondesHarold Hogarth Glennis LorimerMaud Anthony HollesGuidobaldi Joyce KirbyJoan Gibb McLaughlinWesterbrook Grethe HansenGwen Wally PatchHarry
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Ernest SeftonPublicity Man Jane CornellFay Cecil RamageProducer Ron JohnsonDirt Track Rider Gus KuhnDirt Track Rider Colin WatsonDirt Track Rider Tom FarndonDirt Track Rider Claude RyeDirt Track Rider Arthur WarwickDirt Track Rider Roy FoxBandleader Ian Wilson George TurnerPal

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