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Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, this film is as close as Ealing Studio and Michael Balcon ever got to producing a musical. The film's plot revolves around a feud between Leybourne (Tommy Trinder) and rival Alfred Vance (Stanley Holloway) and the threat of closure to their favourite theatre the Mogador in the 1860's. We see pure gaiety, as was Ealing's wont during the Second World War. The film sustained by its indulgent and joyful musical sequences. It's a portrayal of 19th century entertainment looser, grubbier and naughtier than usually shown on film.
Tommy Trinder, the Fulham comic whose cocky, cheerful style harmonised with Britain's wartime endurance, was among the last major British comedians to rise to prominence in music halls. It seems fitting, then, that he should play George Leybourne, one of the performers who ushered in the golden age of music hall in the 1860s, in Champagne Charlie.
To attend to this presentation in person please reserve your seat HERE.
Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, this film is as close as Ealing Studio and Michael Balcon ever got to producing a musical. The film's plot revolves around a feud between Leybourne (Tommy Trinder) and rival Alfred Vance (Stanley Holloway) and the threat of closure to their favourite theatre the Mogador in the 1860's. We see pure gaiety, as was Ealing's wont during the Second World War. The film sustained by its indulgent and joyful musical sequences. It's a portrayal of 19th century entertainment looser, grubbier and naughtier than usually shown on film.
Tommy Trinder, the Fulham comic whose cocky, cheerful style harmonised with Britain's wartime endurance, was among the last major British comedians to rise to prominence in music halls. It seems fitting, then, that he should play George Leybourne, one of the performers who ushered in the golden age of music hall in the 1860s, in Champagne Charlie.