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My Wife's Lodger is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Dominic Roche, Olive Sloane and Leslie Dwyer.[1] A soldier returns home after the Second World War only to find a spiv lodger has established himself in his place. He begins plotting to restore his place as the head of the houshold. It was based on a play by Roche.
Cast
- Dominic Roche - Willie Higginbotham
- Olive Sloane - Maggie Higginbotham
- Leslie Dwyer - Roger the Lodger
- Diana Dors - Eunice Higginbotham
- Alan Sedgwick - Tex
- Vincent Dowling - Norman Higginbotham
- Vi Kaley - Mother-in-Law
- Martin Wyldeck - Policeman
- David Hannaford - Vernon
- Ilena Sylva - Vernon's Mother
- Ronald Adam - Doctor
- Wally Patch - Sergeant
- Derek Tansley - Deserter
- Alastair Hunter - Lance Corporal
- Toke Townley - Soldier
- Fred Griffiths - Driver
- Harry Locke - Passer-by
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The films of Maurice Elvey 1910s Popsy Wopsy (1913) • Maria Marten (1913) • The White Feather (1914) • Her Luck in London (1914) • The Loss of the Birkenhead (1914) • The Idol of Paris (1914) • The Suicide Club (1914) • Honeymoon for Three (1915) • There's Good in Everyone (1915) • Gilbert Dying to Die (1915) • Home (1915) • Her Nameless Child (1915) • Love in a Wood (1915) • From Shopgirl to Duchess (1915) • Gilbert Gets Tiger-Itis (1915) • Midshipman Easy (1915) • Fine Feathers (1915) • Florence Nightingale (1915) • A Will of Her Own (1915) • Charity Ann (1915) • When Knights Were Bold (1916) • Driven (1916) • Mother Love (1916) • Meg the Lady (1916) • Esther (1916) • Trouble for Nothing (1916) • Vice Versa (1916) • The Princess of Happy Chance (1916) • The King's Daughter (1916) • The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917) • The Grit of a Jew (1917) • Smith (1917) • Justice (1917) • The Gay Lord Quex (1917) • Flames (1917) • Mary Girl (1917) • The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918) • Hindle Wakes (1918) • Nelson (1918) • The Greatest Wish in the World (1918) • Goodbye (1918) • Adam Bede (1918) • Comradeship (1919) • God's Good Man (1919) • Mr. Wu (1919) • The Elusive Pimpernel (1919) • Quinneys (1919) • The Rocks of Valpre (1919) • Keeper of the Door (1919) • The Swindler (1919) • Dombey and Son (1919)1920s The Tavern Knight (1920) • The Victory Leaders (1920) • A Question of Trust (1920) • At the Villa Rose (1920) • The Hundredth Chance (1920) • The Amateur Gentleman (1920) • Bleak House (1920) • Innocent (1921) • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1921) • A Gentleman of France (1921) • A Romance of Wastdale (1921) • The Fruitful Vine (1921) • Dick Turpin's Ride to York (1922) • A Debt of Honour (1922) • Running Water (1922) • Man and His Kingdom (1922) • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1922) • Don Quixote (1923) • Guy Fawkes (1923) • The Royal Oak (1923) • The Wandering Jew (1923) • The Sign of Four (1923) • The Passionate Friends (1923)• Sally Bishop (1924) • Henry, King of Navarre (1924) • Slaves of Destiny (1924) • The Love Story of Aliette Brunton (1924) • My Husband's Wives (1924) • Folly of Vanity (1924) • Curlytop (1924) • She Wolves (1925) • Every Man's Wife (1925) • The Woman Tempted (1926) • The Flag Lieutenant (1926) • Human Law (1927) • Roses of Picardy (1927) • Hindle Wakes (1927) • The Flight Commander (1927) • Quinneys (1927) • Mademoiselle Parley Voo (1928) • Balaclava (1928) • Mademoiselle from Armentieres (1928)• Palais de danse (1928) • You Know What Sailors Are (1928) • The Glad Eye (1929) • High Treason (1929)1930s School for Scandal (1930) • Potiphar's Wife (1931) • Sally in Our Alley (1931) • A Honeymoon Adventure (1931) • Frail Women (1932) • The Marriage Bond (1932) • The Water Gipsies (1932) • Diamond Cut Diamond (1932) • The Lodger (1932) • The Lost Chord (1933) • I Lived with You (1933) • This Week of Grace (1933) • The Wandering Jew (1933) • Lily of Killarney (1934) • Love, Life and Laughter (1934) • Princess Charming (1934) • Soldiers of the King (1934) • My Song for You (1934) • Road House (1934) • In a Monastery Garden (1935) • Heat Wave (1935) • The Clairvoyant (1935) • The Tunnel (1935) • Spy of Napoleon (1936) • Man in the Mirror (1936) • A Romance in Flanders (1937) • Change for a Sovereign (1937) • Who Killed John Savage? (1937) • Melody and Romance (1937) • Lightning Conductor (1938) • Who Goes Next? (1938) • The Return of the Frog (1938) • A People Eternal (1939) • Sword of Honour (1939) • Sons of the Sea (1939)1940s Under Your Hat (1940) • The Spider (1940) • For Freedom (1940) • Room for Two (1940) • Salute John Citizen (1942) • The Lamp Still Burns (1943) • Strawberry Roan (1944) • Medal for the General (1944) • Beware of Pity (1946)1950s The Third Visitor (1951) • The Late Edwina Black (1951) • My Wife's Lodger (1952) • The Great Game (1953) • Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953) • The Harassed Hero (1954) • The Happiness of Three Women (1954) • What Every Woman Wants (1954) • The Gay Dog (1954) • You Lucky People (1955) • Room in the House (1955) • Fun at St. Fanny's (1956) House of Blackmail (1956) • Dry Rot (1956) • Second Fiddle (1957) • Stars in Your Eyes (1957)Categories:- 1952 films
- British films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Maurice Elvey
- 1950s comedy films
- British comedy films
- 1950s British film stubs
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