Going Gay Explained

Going Gay
Director:	Carmine Gallone
Producer:	Frank Richardson Louis Whitman
Starring:	Arthur Riscoe Naunton Wayne Magda Schneider
Music:	W.L. Trytel
Cinematography:	Willy Goldberger
Editing:	Thorold Dickinson
Studio:	Windsor Films
Distributor:	Sterling Films
Runtime:	78 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom

Going Gay is a 1933 British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Arthur Riscoe, Naunton Wayne and Magda Schneider.^[1] It was made at British and Dominion's Elstree Studios.^[2] It was followed by a sequel For Love of You, also released the same year.^[3]

Plot

English friends in Vienna are rivals in love for a lady singer, but both unite in their attempts to make her a star of the opera.

Cast

• Arthur Riscoe as Jack
• Naunton Wayne as Jim
• Magda Schneider as Grete, a Viennese Girl
• Ruth Maitland as Mother
• Victor Fairley as Grete's Father
• Richard Wydler as Grete's Brother
• Brenda Senton as Grete's Sister
• Wilfred Noy as Director of Opera Falkenheim
• Grete Natzler as Director of Opera's Daughter
• Joe Hayman as Impresario
• Bertha Belmore as Masculine Lady at TableTen

References

1. Web site: Going Gay (1934). https://web.archive.org/web/20200811021043/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ab475c6. dead. 11 August 2020. BFI.
2. Wood p.77
3. Web site: For Love of You - BFI Filmography. filmography.bfi.org.uk.

Bibliography

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