- Sing As We Go
"Sing As We Go" is a 1934 British musical film starring
Gracie Fields andStanley Holloway . The script was written by Gordon Wellesley andJ. B. Priestley ; it was directed byBasil Dean .Considered by many to be British
music hall star Gracie Fields' finest vehicle, this film was written for her by leading novelist J.B. Priestley. A morale-boosting depression movie, set in the industrial north ofEngland , Fields stars as a resourceful, spunky working class hero, laid off from her job in a clothing mill, who has to seek work in the seaside resort ofBlackpool . This gives her the opportunity both to fall into many misadventures, and of course, to sing.The decision to film on location brings the film a life and immediacy all too absent from most films of the period. The film provides us with a snapshot of life in a seaside resort in the 1930s. The final scene of the millworkers returning to the re-opened mill while Fields leads them in the rousing title song, has become an almost iconic film cliché.
In popular culture
*The main theme of this movie, the song "Sing As We Go" (written by
Harry Parr Davies ), was used by the comedy groupMonty Python in a song that had the same melody but different lyrics, called "Sit on My Face ".External links
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