SIDEWALKS OF LONDON (1938)

American title: ST MARTIN'S LANE

85 minutes (black and white)

Genre: Comedy

Director: Tim Whelan

Producer: Erich Pommer

Writers: Bartlett Cormack and Clemence Dane

Photography: Jules Kruger

Music: Arthur Johnson

Choreography: Philip Buchel

Opened: London, October 18, 1938; New York, February 15, 1940

Starring: Charles Laughton (Charles Staggers), Rex Harrison (Harley Prentiss), Vivien Leigh (as Liberty or Libby), Larry Adler (as Constantine Dan), Tyrone Guthrie (as Gentry), Maire O'Neill (Mrs. Such), Gus McNaughton (Arthur Smith), Polly Ward (as Frankie), Basil Gill (Magistrate), Helen Haye (as Selina), David Burns (as Hackett), Phyllis Stanley (as Della), Edward Lexy (Mr. Such), Clare Greet (Old Maud), Alf Goddard (as Doggie)

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Larry Adler (he'd been asked to be a musical director for the whole picture, but Vall Parnell, the impresario, wouldn't release him from his touring engagements) said about Vivien Leigh:
She didn't like like Charles and he didn't like her. But he was much more professional. One weekend there a few close-ups of Vivien to be done outside a theatre and Charles, who invariably went sown to the country with Elsa at weekends, stayed up it town to "feed" Vivien Lines from behind the camera. I doubt if she'd have done as much for him. Olivier would show up one set and they'd disappear into her dressing-room and it was quite a business to get her back to work.

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