''Girls, Please!'' is a 1934 British comedy film directed by

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and starring

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Jane Baxter Jane Baxter (9 September 1909 – 13 September 1996) was a British actress. Her stage career spanned half a century, and she appeared in a number of films and in television. Early life Baxter was born as Feodora Kathleen Alice Forde in Bremen, ...

Meriel Forbes Meriel Forbes, Lady Richardson (13 September 1913 – 7 April 2000) was an English actress. She was a granddaughter of Norman Forbes-Robertson and great-niece of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. After making her stage debut with her father's tour ...

and

Peter Gawthorne Peter Gawthorne (1 September 1884 – 17 March 1962) was an Anglo-Irish actor, probably best known for his roles in the films of Will Hay and other popular British comedians of the 1930s and 1940s. Gawthorne was one of Britain's most called-up ...

. It was made at British and Dominion's Elstree Studios.Wood p.82 In the film, a

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teacher at a girls school is left in charge when the headmistress is absent, and has to confront the

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of one of the pupils.

Cast

as Trampleasure *

as Renée van Hoffenheim *

as Ann Arundel *

Edward Underdown Charles Edward Underdown (3 December 190815 December 1989) was an English theatre, cinema and television actor. Early Life Underdown was the son of Harry Charles Baillie Underdown and Rachel Elizabeth Orr. Born in London, he was educated at Et ...

as Jim Arundel *

as Van Hoffenheim *

Lena Halliday Lena Halliday (1872 – 19 December 1937) was an English stage and film actress. She as born Selina Heinekey in Balham, London, UK and died in Battersea, London, UK. Death Lena Halliday died on 19 December 1937 in Battersea, London, at the ag ...

as Miss Prout * Cicely Oates as Miss Kinter *

Sybil Arundale Sybil Arundale (20 June 1879 – 5 September 1965) was an English stage and film actress born Sybil Kelly. From age 11, Arundale appeared with her sister Grace in music halls, where they were billed as "The Sisters Arundale". An early dramatic ...

as Matron *

Moore Marriott George Thomas Moore Marriott (14 September 1885 – 11 December 1949) was an English character actor best remembered for the series of films he made with Will Hay. His first appearance with Hay was in the film '' Dandy Dick'' (1935), but he ...

as Oldest Inhabitant * Neva Carr Glyn

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

1934 films 1934 comedy films British comedy films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Jack Raymond British black-and-white films British and Dominions Studios films Films shot at Imperial Studios, Elstree Films scored by Percival Mackey 1930s British films {{1930s-UK-comedy-film-stub