''Going Gay'' is a 1933 British

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directed by

Carmine Gallone Carmine Gallone (10 September 1885 – 11 March 1973) was an early Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, who was also controversial for his works of pro-Fascist propaganda and historical revisionism. Considered one of Itali ...

and starring

Arthur Riscoe Arthur Riscoe MC (19 November 1896 – 6 August 1954) was a British stage and film actor. Early life He was born Arthur Charles Boorman on 19 November 1896 in Sherburn in Elmet near Leeds, but at the age of 15, he moved to Tasmania as a farm ...

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and

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. It was made at British and Dominion's Elstree Studios. It was followed by a sequel '' For Love of You'', also released the same year.

Plot

English friends in Vienna are rivals in love for a lady singer, but both unite in their attempts to make her a star of the opera.

Cast

as Jack *

as Jim *

as Grete, a Viennese Girl *

Ruth Maitland Ruth Maitland (born Emma Christian Ruth Erskine; 3 February 1880 – 12 March 1961) was an English actress. She is known for her roles in '' The Faithful Heart'' (1922), ''The Farmer's Wife'' (1928), '' The Only Girl'' (1933), and '' At the Vil ...

as Mother * Victor Fairley as Grete's Father *

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as Grete's Brother * Brenda Senton as Grete's Sister *

Wilfred Noy Wilfred Noy (born Wilfred Noy Blumberg, 24 December 1883 – 29 March 1948) was an English film director, actor, screenwriter and film producer, producer of the silent film, silent era. Noy was the maternal uncle of Leslie Howard (actor), Le ...

as Director of Opera Falkenheim *

Grete Natzler Grete Natzler (19 June 1906 – 10 June 1999) was an Austrian actress and operatic soprano. Born in Vienna, she was the daughter of actress Lilli Meißner and actor and opera singer Leopold Natzler (1860–1926). Two of her younger sisters we ...

as Director of Opera's Daughter *

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as Impresario *

Bertha Belmore Bertha Belmore (22 December 1882 – 14 December 1953) was an English stage and film actress. Part of the Belmore family of British actors through her marriage to actor Herbert Belmore, she began her career as a child actress in British pantomim ...

as Masculine Lady at TableTen

References

Bibliography

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

External links

* 1933 films 1933 musical comedy films Films directed by Carmine Gallone British musical comedy films Films shot at Imperial Studios, Elstree British black-and-white films 1930s British films 1930s English-language films English-language musical comedy films Films scored by William Trytel {{musical-comedy-film-stub