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Look Up and Laugh is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Basil Dean and starring Gracie Fields, Alfred Drayton and Douglas Wakefield. The film is notable for featuring an appearance by Vivien Leigh in an early supporting role.
Look Up and Laugh è un film del 1935 diretto da Basil Dean.
Look Up and Laugh: Directed by Basil Dean. With Gracie Fields, Vivien Leigh, Douglas Wakefield, Alfred Drayton. Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain.
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- Comedy, Musical
- Basil Dean
- 1935-10-07
Look Up and Laugh is a charming comedy about protest: small traders standing up to bullies and forging solidarity in the depression years – boosted by inventive staging and a strong sense of what it means to be choral, to join voices together as one.
- Basil Dean
- Associated Talking Pictures (ATP)
Look Up and Laugh is the story of a “crusader” as Grace Pearson leads the market-stall holders in their effort to prevent the shut-down of the market which provides them with their livelihood. Black is black and white is white in the film, with the common folk pitted against big business to survive.
J. B. Priestley. Screenplay. Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Comedy. Black and White. Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market’s foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
