Second Best Bed Explained

Second Best Bed
Director:Tom Walls
Producer:Max Schach
Music:Van Phillips
Cinematography:Jack E. Cox
Editing:Lynn Harrison
Studio:Capitol Film Corporation
Distributor:General Film Distributors
Runtime:74 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English

Second Best Bed is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Jane Baxter and Veronica Rose.[1] The screenplay is by Ben Travers, based on an earlier story of his. Walls and Travers had worked together on the Aldwych farces. The screenplay concerns a newly married couple who soon run into domestic difficulties when the wife refuses to obey her husband's every order.[2]

It was an independent production made at Shepperton Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Murton.

Main cast

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090113210533/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/49818 BFI.org
  2. Book: Lanier, Douglas . Film Spin-offs and Citations: On the Virtues of Illegitimacy . Burt . Richard . Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture . One . Westport, CT . Greenwood Press . 2006 . 307 . 9780313331169.