Elstree Calling

Feb 6, 1930

1h 23m

★ 5.1

Overview

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Genres

Music

Comedy

Production Companies

British International Pictures

Elstree Calling Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

The Host

Tommy Handley

Himself

Teddy Brown

Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew

Donald Calthrop

Himself

Jack Hulbert

Herself

Helen Burnell

Themselves

The Three Eddies

Herself

Lily Morris

Himself

Will Fyffe

Herself

Cicely Courtneidge

Himself

John Longden

Herself / Katherina in Taming of the Shrew

Anna May Wong

Herself

Bobbie Comber

The three sisters ,Siham, Nabila, Sannia inherit from their late uncle an amount of only five hundred pounds, which drives them to travel to Alexandria to search for wealthy men to marry them. They stay at a fancy hotel where they meet three rich men, where comic paradoxes and misunderstanding happen between the six of them.

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