Second Best Bed
1938 British film
- Tom Walls
- Jane Baxter
- Veronica Rose
Production
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Capitol Film Corporation
Release date
- January 1938 (1938-01)
Running time
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
- Tom Walls as Victor Garnett
- Jane Baxter as Patricia Lynton
- Veronica Rose as Jenny Murdoch
- Carl Jaffe as Georges Dubonnet
- Greta Gynt as Yvonne
- Edward Lexy as Murdoch
- Tyrell Davis as Whittaker
- Mae Bacon as Mrs Whittaker
- Ethel Coleridge as Mrs Knuckle
- Davy Burnaby as Lord Kingston
- Martita Hunt as Mrs Mather
- Gordon James as Judge
References
External links
- Second Best Bed at IMDb
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The films of Tom Walls
- Rookery Nook (1930)
- On Approval (1930)
- Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930)
- Plunder (1930)
- Tons of Money (1930)
- A Night Like This (1932)
- Thark (1932)
- Leap Year (1932)
- The Blarney Stone (1933)
- Leave It to Smith (1933)
- A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
- Turkey Time (1933)
- A Cup of Kindness (1934)
- Lady in Danger (1934)
- Dirty Work (1934)
- Fighting Stock (1935)
- Stormy Weather (1935)
- Foreign Affaires (1935)
- Pot Luck (1936)
- Dishonour Bright (1936)
- For Valour (1937)
- Second Best Bed (1938)
- Old Iron (1938)
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