She Couldn't Say No is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Tommy Trinder, Fred Emney and Googie Withers.[1] It was based on a play Funny Face by Paul Gerard Smith and Fred Thompson. The screenplay features a woman who arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.
| She Couldn't Say No | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Graham Cutts |
| Written by | Clifford Grey Bert Lee Elizabeth Meehan |
| Based on | Funny Face 1927 musical play by Paul Gerard Smith Fred Thompson |
| Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
| Starring | Tommy Trinder Fred Emney Googie Withers |
| Cinematography | Claude Friese-Greene |
| Music by | Kenneth Leslie-Smith |
| Distributed by | Pathé Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Plot summary
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Cast
edit- Tommy Trinder as Dugsie Gibbs
- Fred Emney as Herbert
- Googie Withers as Dora
- Greta Gynt as Frankie Barnes
- David Hutcheson as Peter Thurston
- Bertha Belmore as Dr. Grimstone
- Basil Radford as Lord Pilton
- Cecil Parker as Jimmy Reeves
- David Burns as Chester
- Wylie Watson as Thrumgood
- Doris Hare as Amelia Reeves
- Geoffrey Sumner as Announcer
References
editBibliography
edit- Sutton, David R. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.
External links
edit- She Couldn't Say No at IMDb
- She Couldn't Say No at the TCM Movie Database
- She Couldn't Say No at AllMovie
