Radio Parade Explained

Radio Parade
Director:	Richard Beville Archie de Bear
Starring:	Florence Desmond Claude Hulbert Jeanne De Casalis
Music:	Idris Lewis
Cinematography:	James Wilson
Studio:	British International Pictures
Runtime:	70 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom

Radio Parade is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Richard Beville and Archie de Bear and featuring an ensemble cast including Florence Desmond, Claude Hulbert, Jeanne De Casalis and the comedy double act Clapham and Dwyer. A revue film, it was made by British International Pictures who had produced a similarly formatted film Elstree Calling in 1930.^[1] It contained many of the leading radio stars of the era.^[2] A further revue film Radio Parade of 1935 also followed.

Cast

• Doris Arnold as Self - pianist
• Elsie Carlisle as Self
• Charles Clapham as Self
• Mabel Constanduros as Grandma Buggins
• Carlyle Cousins as Themselves
• Jeanne De Casalis as Mrs. Feather
• Florence Desmond as Self
• Bill Dwyer as Self
• Roy Fox as Roy Fox and his band
• Reginald Gardiner as Self
• Leonard Henry as Self
• Billie Houston as Self
• Renée Houston as Self
• Claude Hulbert as Self
• Mario 'Harp' Lorenzi as Self
• B.C. Hilliam as Self
• Malcolm 'Mr. Jetsam' McEachern as Self
• Tex McLeod as Self
• Gus McNaughton as Self
• Harry S. Pepper as Self - pianist
• Stanelli as Self
• Stainless Stephen as Self
• Christopher Stone as Self - disc jockey
• Doris Waters as Daisy
• Elsie Waters as Gert
• Keith Wilbur as Self
• Hal Gordon as Garage Mechanic
• Eric Pavitt as Boy
• Ernest Sefton as Nightclub Compere

References

1. Wright p.63-64
2. Street p.229

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Street, Seán. The A to Z of British Radio. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
• Wright, Adrian. Cheer Up!: British Musical Films 1929-1945. The Boydell Press, 2020.