Second Best Bed

Second Best Bed
Second Best Bed
Directed by	Tom Walls
Written by	Ben Travers
Produced by	Max Schach
Starring	Tom Walls; Jane Baxter; Veronica Rose;
Cinematography	Jack E. Cox
Edited by	Lynn Harrison
Music by	Van Phillips
Production; company	Capitol Film Corporation
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release date	January 1938;
Running time	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

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

^ BFI.org
^ Lanier, Douglas (2006). "Film Spin-offs and Citations: On the Virtues of Illegitimacy". In Burt, Richard (ed.). Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Vol. One. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780313331169.

External links

Second Best Bed at IMDb

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[1] BFI.org

[2] Lanier, Douglas (2006). "Film Spin-offs and Citations: On the Virtues of Illegitimacy". In Burt, Richard (ed.). Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Vol. One. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780313331169.

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