ComedyRomance

Me and Marlborough

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A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

Release Date : 1935-07-22

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Cicely Courtneidge

Character Name : Kit Ross

Original Name : Cicely Courtneidge

Gender : Female

Tom Walls

Character Name : John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough

Original Name : Tom Walls

Gender : Male

Barry MacKay

Character Name : Dick Welch

Original Name : Barry MacKay

Gender : Male

Alfred Drayton

Character Name : Sergeant Bull

Original Name : Alfred Drayton

Gender : Male

Iris Ashley

Character Name : Josephine

Original Name : Iris Ashley

Gender : Female

Ivor McLaren

Character Name : Sergeant Cummings

Original Name : Ivor McLaren

Gender : Male

Gibb McLaughlin

Character Name : Old Soldier

Original Name : Gibb McLaughlin

Gender : Male

Peter Gawthorne

Character Name : Staff Colonel

Original Name : Peter Gawthorne

Gender : Male

Cecil Parker

Character Name : Colonel of the Greys

Original Name : Cecil Parker

Gender : Male

George Merritt

Character Name : Harley

Original Name : George Merritt

Gender : Male

Cyril Smith

Character Name : Corporal Fox

Original Name : Cyril Smith

Gender : Male

Mickey Brantford

Character Name : Ensign Coke

Original Name : Mickey Brantford

Gender : Male

Randle Ayrton

Character Name : King Louis XIV

Original Name : Randle Ayrton

Gender : Male

Henry Oscar

Character Name : Goultier

Original Name : Henry Oscar

Gender : Male

Percy Walsh

Character Name : Naylor

Original Name : Percy Walsh

Gender : Male

Donald Calthrop

Character Name : Drunken Yokel

Original Name : Donald Calthrop

Gender : Male

Frank Atkinson

Character Name : Soldier

Original Name : Frank Atkinson

Gender : Male

Marcus Barron

Character Name : Minor Role

Original Name : Marcus Barron

Gender : Male

Kenneth Buckley

Character Name : Minor Role

Original Name : Kenneth Buckley

Gender : Male

Syd Crossley

Character Name : Soldier

Original Name : Syd Crossley

Gender : Male

Howard Marion-Crawford

Character Name : Minor Role

Original Name : Howard Marion-Crawford

Gender : Male

John Mortimer

Character Name : Minor Role

Original Name : John Mortimer

Gender : Male

Finlay Currie

Character Name : Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)

Original Name : Finlay Currie

Gender : Male

Reviews

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@Geronimo1967

2022-06-19

When inn-keeper "Kit" (Cicely Courtneidge) discovers that her new husband has been pressed into the army of Queen Anne on the evening following her wedding, she sets about trying to retrieve him from his new, precarious, position. Dressed as a man, she gets herself posted to the front and through cunning manipulation of her rather dopey superiors - including the Duke of Marlborough (Tom Walls) himself - she proves more than a match for them, and the opposing French. It's a whimsy of a film, this - a vehicle for a haughty Courteneidge with competent, if not exactly hysterically funny, support from a cast that indulge both her style and the pretty lacklustre writing. It has some humour, and demonstrates well that women were in no way inferior to their men folks, but the joke really does wear thin and the ending (somewhat tied by history) is never really in question. The star has a decent go at a Noel Gay number which proves she can hold a tune, just not one of his best!