Let's Get Married (1960 film)

Let's Get Married is a 1960 British comedy drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey and Hermione Baddeley.^[1] The film features Newley singing the song "Do You Mind", which reached #1 in the British Hit Singles chart the same year.^[2]

Let's Get Married
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Graham Scott
Written by	Ken Taylor
Produced by	John R. Sloan
Starring	Anthony Newley Anne Aubrey Hermione Baddeley
Cinematography	Ted Moore
Edited by	Ernest Walter
Music by	Edwin Astley
Production company	Viceroy Films
Distributed by	Eros Films
Release date	22 March 1960 (1960-03-22)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

Dickie Bird is a medical student who thrown out of his university who ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion model.

Cast

• Anthony Newley as Dickie Bird
• Anne Aubrey as Anne Linton
• Bernie Winters as Bernie
• Hermione Baddeley as Mrs O'Grady
• James Booth as photographer
• Jack Gwillim as Doctor Saunders
• Lionel Jeffries as Marsh
• Diane Clare as Glad
• John Le Mesurier as Dean
• Victor Maddern as works manager
• Joyce Carey as Miss Finch
• Sydney Tafler as Pendle
• Betty Marsden as Miss Kaplan
• Cardew Robinson as salesman
• Meier Tzelniker as Schutzberger
• Nicholas Parsons as RAF officer
• Paul Whitsun-Jones as Uncle Herbert
• Margaret Tyzack as Staff Nurse

Production

The film was shot at MGM British Studios in Elstree with sets designed by the art director Ken Adam.

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "After an amusing hospital scene, what might have been a charming, romantic little fable declines into slapstick and weak jokes. Some of the fooling displays imagination, but too often it is just a case of characters grimacing, falling, spraying each other with water – not to mention all manner of tasteless variations on the hardly uproarious theme of unmarried motherhood. Anthony Newley, giving a broader performance than usual, is given songs to sing, regardless of their relevance to the story. Lionel Jeffries provides yet another of his impressive caricatures. Like Newley, he awaits better material."^[3]

References

1. "Let's Get Married". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
2. "Do You MInd? by Anthony Newley". Official Charts (UK). Retrieved 1 February 2024.
3. "Let's Get Married". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 27 (312): 54. 1 January 1960 – via ProQuest.

External links

• Let's Get Married at IMDb