Gracie Fields

Monty Woolley

Roddy McDowall

Reginald Gardiner

Natalie Schafer

Doris Lloyd

Edith Barrett

Clifford Brooke

Aminta Dyne

Queenie Leonard

Lillian Bronson

Ethel Griffies

Jean Del Val

Walter Tetley

Patrick O'Moore

Lewis L. Russell

Leonard Praskins

Roger Burford

Lewis Seiler

John W. McCafferty

Frances Marion

Yvonne Wood

Ben Nye

Charles G. Clarke

Cyril J. Mockridge

Albert Hogsett

Lyle R. Wheeler

Thomas Little

Comedy

Molly and Me

20th Century Fox

United States of America

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"Molly" (Gracie Fields) is fed up eking out a living doing repertory theatre, so decides to settle down with a proper job as an housekeeper. With the aid of her fellow thespians, she finds herself working for the cantankerous "John Graham" (Monty Woolley) a retired politician who lives in a grand home. Her matter of fact methods don't go down well with his existing staff, so off they go leaving her having to dragoon her erstwhile colleagues in to pick up the slack. Urgently, as it happens, as their boss is hosting a VIP to a dinner that could get him back into Parliament. His young son "Jimmy" (Roddy McDowall) is also down from school with a gammy leg - and soon he is in on the secret, and - well now you have to watch and see. Woolley only features sparingly - and that allows the other assembled cast to make the humour work as the story gently unfolds with a few amiable sub-plots that frequently raise a smile. Not such much at the wit of the script, but at the way the gang mobilise their respective skills to achieve the desired result - and with quite some comedy timing, too! It is short, well paced and well worth a watch.

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