Calling the Tune explained

Calling the Tune
Producer:	Hugh Perceval
Cinematography:	Franz Weihmayr
Editing:	Thorold Dickinson Ray Pitt
Studio:	Phoenix Films
Runtime:	80 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom

Calling the Tune was a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Reginald Denham and Thorold Dickinson and starring Adele Dixon, Sally Gray and Sam Livesey. It was based on a play written by the Irish MP and novelist, Justin Huntly McCarthy first published in 1913. It was made at Ealing Studios^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director R. Holmes Paul.

Cast

• Adele Dixon as Julia Harbord
• Sally Gray as Margaret Gordon
• Sam Livesey as Bob Gordon
• Eliot Makeham as Stephen Harbord
• Donald Wolfit as Dick Finlay
• Clifford Evans as Peter Mallory
• Lewis Casson as John Mallory
• Ronald Simpson as Bramwell
• H. F. Maltby as Stubbins
• Robb Wilton as Jenkins
• Reginald Forsyth as himself
• Charles Penrose as himself
• George Robey as himself
• Students of the R.A.D.A. as Themselves
• Sir Henry Wood as himself
• Pat Fitzpatrick as Boy
• Cedric Hardwicke as himself

References

1. Wood p.85

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.