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{{Infobox film
| name = Happidrome
| image = "Happidrome"_(1943_film).jpg
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| caption = Opening titles
| director = Phil Brandon
| producer = {{ubl|Harold Boxall|[[Jack Buchanan]]}}
| screenplay = {{ubl|James Seymour|[[Tom Arnold (theatre impresario)|Tom Arnold]]}}
| based_on = [[Happidrome (radio)]]
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Harry Korris]]|Robbie Vincent|Cecil Fredericks}}
| music = [[Bretton Byrd]]
| cinematography = [[Geoffrey Faithfull]]
| editing = [[Alan Jaggs]]
| studio = Aldwych Films
| distributor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]
| released = 7 June 1943
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = [[English language|English]]
| budget =
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'''''Happidrome''''' is a 1943 British [[comedy film]] directed by Philip Brandon and starring [[Harry Korris]], Robbie Vincent and Cecil Fredericks.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114101307/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/35718 BFI.org]</ref> It was a spin-off from the ''[[Happidrome (radio)|Happidrome]]'' BBC radio series which was popular at the time.<ref>Richards p.275</ref> The film was made at the [[Riverside Studios]] in [[Hammersmith]], and produced by the musical star [[Jack Buchanan]]. The sets were designed by the [[art director]] William Hemsley.

==Synopsis==
Mr Lovejoy, a struggling [[actor-manager]] returns to a small provincial town with plans to put on a show. Despite having debts there during the previous visit, he is cunningly able to keep his show on the road and gains free advertising in a newspaper by announcing that local talent will be cast. In the meantime he acquires two incompetent assistants, Enoch and Rambsbottom, and Bunty Meadows, an eager would-be star also wangles her way into the company. A statuesque but domineering Russian [[prima donna]] also joins the cast.

Bunty's determination to become a [[leading lady]] has a disastrous effect on the opening night which is supposed to be a serious play about [[Ancient Rome]], but quickly descends into a total [[farce]]. With the audience extremely amused, the show is quickly rebilled as a comedy.

==Cast==
* [[Harry Korris]] as Mr Lovejoy
* Robbie Vincent as Enoch
* Cecil Fredericks as Ramsbottom
* Bunty Meadows as Bunty Mossup
* Lisa Lee as Tanya / Josephine
* Jennie Gregson as Mrs Bane
* Muriel Zillah as Muriel
* Connie Creighton as Connie
* Marie Lawson as Marie
* Olga Stevenson as Miss D'Orsay
* [[Joss Ambler]] as Mr Mossup
* Valentine Dunn as Mrs Mossup
* Bryan Herbert as Newspaper editor
* [[Arthur Hambling]] as Jones Jnr.
* [[Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson]] as Himself
* [[Charlie Cairoli|Cairoli Brothers]] as Themselves
* [[Billy Wells]] as Ivan

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Richards, Jeffrey. ''Films and British National Identity: from Dickens to Dad's Army''. Manchester University Press, 1997.

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0171360}}

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