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{{Infobox film
| name = Miss London Ltd.
| image = Miss London Ltd. FilmPoster.jpeg
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| director = [[Val Guest]]
| producer = [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]]
| writer = [[Marriott Edgar]]<br/>Val Guest
| starring =
| music = Bob Busby
| cinematography = [[Basil Emmott]]
| editing = [[R. E. Dearing]]
| studio = [[Lime Grove Studios]] (credited as [[Gaumont British]])
| distributor = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1943|6|14}}
| runtime = 99 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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'''''Miss London Ltd.''''' is a 1943 British, [[black-and-white]], [[comedy film|comedy]], [[musical film|musical]], [[war film]], [[film director|directed]] by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[Arthur Askey]] and [[Evelyn Dall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/284313?view=cast |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115030259/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/284313?view=cast |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-01-15 |title=Miss London Ltd. (1943) | BFI |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2015-07-02 |accessdate=2015-10-05}}</ref> It was [[film producer|produced]] by [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]], Maurice Ostrer, Fred Gunn and [[Gainsborough Pictures]].

== Plot ==
This musical comedy playing in [[war]]time London, stars [[Arthur Askey]] as Arthur Boden alias Miss London, the name of the escort agency he inherited from his mother. Soon he is joined by his new American partner, Terry Arden ([[Evelyn Dall]]), as she inherited the other half of the Agency from her parents, who just arrived from abroad. The first thing she accomplishes is to clean up the office, together with her partner.
Then they have to renew the files of escort-Ladies. In order to do so, each of them goes searching in different places. Arthur Boden is assigned to the railway station and finally he finds railway clerk Gail Martin ([[Anne Shelton (singer)|Anne Shelton]]) to hire.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://moviethisfriday.com/miss-london-ltd/|title=Miss London Ltd. (1943) - Movies to Watch, Classic Movies 90s|date=2018-10-02|work=Movie This Friday|access-date=2018-10-08|language=en-US}}</ref> The opening sequence of the film features the latter singing "The 8.50 Choo Choo For Waterloo Choo" at [[London Waterloo railway station|Waterloo station]] before she is recruited by Bowman for his agency. As usual, [[Ronald Shiner]]'s character of Sailor Meredith plays a decisive role.

The film features a surreal self-parodying sequence in which Boden, in order to gain entrance to a hotel, pretends to be the famous Arthur Askey, using some of his choice [[catchphrase]]s. Other spoofs include Askey and Dall doing a routine as [[Fred Astaire]] and [[Ginger Rogers]] and, with Shiner in addition, as the three [[Marx Brothers]].

== Cast ==
* [[Arthur Askey]] as Arthur Boden
* [[Evelyn Dall]] as Terry Arden
* [[Anne Shelton (singer)|Anne Shelton]] as Gail Martin
* [[Richard Hearne]] as Commodore Joshua Wellington
* [[Max Bacon (actor)|Max Bacon]] as Romero
* [[Jack Train]] as Joe Nelson
* [[Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves|Peter Graves]] as Captain Michael "Rory" O'More
* [[Jean Kent]] as The Encyclopedia Girl
* [[Ronald Shiner]] as Sailor Meredith
* Iris Lang
* [[Virginia Keiley]]
* Una Shepherd
* Sheila Bligh
* Noni Brooke
* [[Patricia Owens (actress)|Patricia Owens]] as Miss London
* Hilda Campbell Russell as Cabaret Singer

== Soundtrack ==
*Evelyn Dall and Anne Shelton – "A Fine How Do You Do" (Words and music by Val Guest and [[Manning Sherwin]])
*Evelyn Dall – "Keep Cool Calm and Collected" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin)
*Arthur Askey – "The Moth" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin)
*Arthur Askey – "I'm Only Me" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin)
*Anne Shelton – "You Too Can Have a Lovely Romance" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin)
*Anne Shelton – "The 8.50 Choo Choo" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin)
*Anne Shelton – "If You Could Only Cook" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin)
* "My Father Was a Yes Man" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title| 0036163 }}
* {{AllMovie title| 102518 }}

{{Val Guest}}
{{Marriott Edgar}}

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[[Category:British war comedy films]]
[[Category:British World War II propaganda films]]
[[Category:1940s English-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Val Guest]]
[[Category:Films produced by Maurice Ostrer]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
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