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	''[[Halliwell's Film Guide]]'' called the film "a slightly vulgar and talkative farce which restricts the star".<ref name=georgeformby/> A ''[[Radio Times]]'' reviewer commented, "although he was still Britain's biggest box office attraction, George Formby was already showing signs of the novelty fatigue that would result in the collapse of his screen career four years later...The cheeky wit that informed so many of Formby's songs is to the fore in this contrived comedy, but the storyline about the handyman with aspirations to become an artist simply isn't strong enough to sustain so much smutty innuendo".<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jz5ym/much-too-shy\|title = Much Too Shy (1942)}}</ref>		''[[w:Halliwell's Film Guide\|Halliwell's Film Guide]]'' called the film "a slightly vulgar and talkative farce which restricts the star".<ref name=georgeformby/> A ''[[w:Radio Times\|Radio Times]]'' reviewer commented, "although he was still Britain's biggest box office attraction, George Formby was already showing signs of the novelty fatigue that would result in the collapse of his screen career four years later...The cheeky wit that informed so many of Formby's songs is to the fore in this contrived comedy, but the storyline about the handyman with aspirations to become an artist simply isn't strong enough to sustain so much smutty innuendo".<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jz5ym/much-too-shy\|title = Much Too Shy (1942)}}</ref>

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{{Infobox film
| name = Much Too Shy
| image = "Much_Too_Shy"_(1942).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Opening title card
| director = [[Marcel Varnel]]
| producer = Marcel Varnel [[Ben Henry]] (associate producer)
| writer = [[Walter Greenwood]] (screen adaptation) Michael Vaughan (additional scenes) John L. Arthur [[Jack Marks (performer)|Jack S. Marks]]
| based_on = original story by [[Ronald Frankau]]
| narrator =
| starring = [[George Formby]] [[Kathleen Harrison]]
| music = [[Harry Bidgood]] (uncredited)
| cinematography = [[Arthur Crabtree]]
| editing = Max Brenner Kitty Spreckley
| studio = [[Columbia Pictures Corporation|Columbia British Productions]]
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures Corporation]] {{small|(UK)}}
| released = {{Film date|1942|10|12|df=y}} {{small|(UK)}}
| runtime = 92 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''Much Too Shy''''' is a 1942 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[George Formby]], [[Kathleen Harrison]], [[Hilda Bayley]] and Eileen Bennett.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/43298 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | MUCH TOO SHY (1942) |access-date=2 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090902202608/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/43298 |archive-date=2 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The cast includes radio star [[Jimmy Clitheroe]] (as George's brother), later "[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'" star [[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]], [[Peter Gawthorne]] and [[Joss Ambler]].

Formby's featured songs are ''They Laughed When I Started to Play'' (Formby/Cliffe), ''Talking to the Moon About You'' (Day), ''Delivering the Morning Milk'' (Formby/Gifford/Cliffe) and ''Andy the Handy Man'', written by [[Eddie Latta]].<ref name=georgeformby>{{Cite web|url=http://www.georgeformby.co.uk/films/shy/report1.html|title = Much Too Shy}}</ref>

==Plot summary==
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.

==Cast==
* [[George Formby]] – George Andy
* [[Kathleen Harrison]] – Amelia Peabody
* [[Hilda Bayley]] – Lady Driscoll
* [[Eileen Bennett]] – Jackie Somers
* [[Joss Ambler]] – Sir George Driscoll
* [[Jimmy Clitheroe]] – Jimmy
* [[Frederick Burtwell]] – Harefield
* [[Brefni O'Rorke]] – Somers
* [[Eric Clavering]] – Robert Latimer
* [[Gibb McLaughlin]] – Reverend Sheepshanks
* [[Peter Gawthorne]] – Counsel
* [[Valentine Dyall]] - Defendant's Counsel
* [[Gus McNaughton]] - Manager of Commercial Art School
* [[Wally Patch]] - Police Man
* [[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] - Osbert, the Art Student

==Critical reception==
''[[Halliwell's Film Guide]]'' called the film "a slightly vulgar and talkative farce which restricts the star".<ref name=georgeformby/> A ''[[Radio Times]]'' reviewer commented, "although he was still Britain's biggest box office attraction, George Formby was already showing signs of the novelty fatigue that would result in the collapse of his screen career four years later...The cheeky wit that informed so many of Formby's songs is to the fore in this contrived comedy, but the storyline about the handyman with aspirations to become an artist simply isn't strong enough to sustain so much smutty innuendo".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jz5ym/much-too-shy|title = Much Too Shy (1942)}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0035095}}

{{Marcel Varnel}}

[[Category:1942 films]]
[[Category:1942 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:1940s English-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Marcel Varnel]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Legal comedy films]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:Films shot at British National Studios]]
[[Category:1940s British films]]

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