''Shooting Stars'' is a 1927 British
drama film
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directed by
Anthony Asquith
Anthony Asquith (; 9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was an English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on ''The Winslow Boy'' (1948) and '' The Browning Version'' (1951), among other adaptations ...
and
A. V. Bramble
Albert Victor Bramble (1884–1963) was an English film actor, actor and film director. He began his acting career on the stage. He started acting in films in 1914 and subsequently turned to directing and producing films. He died on 17 May 196 ...
and starring
Annette Benson,
Brian Aherne
William Brian de Lacy Aherne (2 May 190210 February 1986) was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who enjoyed a long and varied career in Britain and the United States.
His first Broadway appearance in '' The Barretts of ...
and
Wally Patch
Walter Sydney Vinnicombe (26 September 1888 – 27 October 1970), known as Wally Patch, was an English actor and comedian. He worked in film, television and theatre.
Biography
Vinnicombe was born in Willesden, Middlesex and began working on th ...
. The screenplay concerns a starlet who plots an escape to Hollywood.
Premise
At Zenith Studios, a starlet plots an escape to Hollywood with her lover and the murder of her superfluous husband.
Cast
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Annette Benson as Mae Feather
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Brian Aherne
William Brian de Lacy Aherne (2 May 190210 February 1986) was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who enjoyed a long and varied career in Britain and the United States.
His first Broadway appearance in '' The Barretts of ...
as Julian Gordon
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Donald Calthrop
Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor.
Born in London, Calthrop was educated at St Paul's School and made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age at the Comedy Theat ...
as Andy Wilkes
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Wally Patch
Walter Sydney Vinnicombe (26 September 1888 – 27 October 1970), known as Wally Patch, was an English actor and comedian. He worked in film, television and theatre.
Biography
Vinnicombe was born in Willesden, Middlesex and began working on th ...
as Property Man
* David Brooks as Turner
* Ella Daincourt as Asphodel Smythe, Journalist
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Chili Bouchier
Chili Bouchier (born Dorothy Irene Boucher; 12 September 1909 – 9 September 1999) was an English film actress who achieved success during the silent film era, and went on to many screen appearances with the advent of sound films, before progre ...
as Winnie, Bathing Beauty
* Tubby Phillips as Fatty
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Ian Wilson as Reporter
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Judd Green
Judd Green (also credited as R. Judd Green; 1866–1932) was a British film actor of the silent era. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire in 1866 and made his first screen appearance in 1914.
Selected filmography
* '' The Third String'' (1914)
* ...
as Lighting Man
* Jack Rawl as Hero
Production
It was Asquith's first film as a director. It was made at
Cricklewood Studios
Cricklewood Studios, also known as the Stoll Film Studios, were British film studios located in Cricklewood, London
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in
North London
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for
British Instructional Films. The novelisation of the film was written by the popular novelist
E. Charles Vivian.
[''Shooting Stars. From the film by Anthony Asquith''. Adaptation by E. C. Vivian. Hurst & Blackett, London, 1928.]
Restoration
''Shooting Stars'' was restored in 2015 by the
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...
with a new score by
John Altman. The new print premiered as the Archive Gala of the 2015
London Film Festival
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In 2016, the British Film Institute, BFI estim ...
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References
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1927 films
British silent feature films
1927 drama films
Films directed by Anthony Asquith
Films directed by A. V. Bramble
British black-and-white films
Films shot at Cricklewood Studios
Films set in London
1927 directorial debut films
1920s British films
Silent British drama films
1920s English-language films
English-language drama films
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