Keep It Clean
''Keep It Clean'' is a 1956 British black-and-white comedy film directed by David Paltenghi and starring Ronald Shiner as Bert Lane and Joan Sims as Violet Tarbottom. Plot Advertising agent Bert Lane (Ronald Shiner) plans to market his brother-in-law Peter's (Colin Gordon) new miracle cleaning machine. However, Bert's boss Mr. Bouncenboy (James Hayter) wants him to advertise Mrs Anstey's famous crumpets, but Bert's cheesecake advertising slogans incur the wrath of Mrs Anstey (Jean Cadell) and her Purity League, as well as that of his boss. Cast * Ronald Shiner as Bert Lane * James Hayter as Mr. Bouncenboy * Diane Hart as Kitty * Ursula Howells as Pat Anstey * Jean Cadell as Mrs. Anstey * Colin Gordon as Peter * Benny Lee as Tarbottom * Joan Sims as Violet Tarbottom * Denis Shaw as Slogger O'Reilly * Tonia Bern as Colette Dare * Gerald Campion as Rasher * Mark Daly as Stage Door Keeper *Albert Whelan as Gregson *Violet Gould as Lady Pecksniff *Bert Brownbill as George Buxton ...
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David Paltenghi
David Paltenghi (1919 – 4 February 1961) was a British ballet dancer, choreographer, director and film director. Early life David Paltenghi was born in 1919 in Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset), the son of a Swiss-Italian father and English mother. Career Dancer He was a dancer with Ballet Rambert, until joining Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1941. Paltenghi created leading roles in Robert Helpmann's ''Miracle in the Gorbals'' in 1944 and '' Adam Zero'' in 1946, both for Sadler's Wells Ballet. Choreographer In 1950, he rejoined Ballet Rambert as a guest artist, and as a choreographer, created five ballets from 1950-51. The last was ''Canterbury Prologue'', based on Chaucer's '' Canterbury Tales'' with music by Peter Racine Fricker and designs by the artist Edward Burra, who he had met when they both worked on ''Miracle in the Gorbals''. Film director Paltenghi later became a film director, and his 1955 ''The Love Match'' starring Arthur Askey was praised, "gets the utm ...