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1938 film by Monty Banks From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keep Smiling is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Roger Livesey and Mary Maguire. The film follows a group of performers who club together to buy a bus and travel around the country doing shows after they are cheated out of money by an ex-manager.
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Directed by | Monty Banks |
Written by | Rodney Ackland William M. Conselman Val Valentine |
Produced by | Robert Kane |
Starring | Gracie Fields Mary Maguire Roger Livesey Peter Coke Jack Donohue |
Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
Edited by | James B. Clark |
Music by | Bretton Byrd |
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Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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It was the second film made by Fields under her contract with 20th Century-Fox. It was made at Pinewood Studios[1] with sets designed by the art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff. It was retitled Smiling Along to avoid confusion with another film with the same name, released by Fox in America the same year, and starring Jane Withers.