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Give Me the Stars

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Give Me the Stars
Directed byMaclean Rogers
Screenplay byAustin Melford
Maclean Rogers
Based onstory by A. Hilarius & Rudolph Bernauer
Produced byFrederic Zelnik
StarringLeni Lynn
Will Fyffe
Jackie Hunter
CinematographyJames Wilson
Edited byDonald Ginsberg
Music byKennedy Russell
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 14 May 1945 (1945-05-14) (UK)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Give Me the Stars is a 1945 British musical drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Leni Lynn, Will Fyffe, Jackie Hunter and Olga Lindo.[1] American Toni Martin travels to Scotland and finds herself looking after her cranky grandfather Hector MacTavish, and even taking over his music hall act.

Cast

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Critical reception

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Allmovie wrote, "While tolerably produced, Give Me the Stars rather resembles an elongated music hall sketch. But Will Fyffe was enormously popular, and the film brought in the shillings."[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Give Me the Stars (1944)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
  2. ^ "Give Me the Stars (1944) - Maclean Rogers - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
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