Give Me the Stars

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Give Me the Stars
Directed by Maclean Rogers
Screenplay by Austin Melford
Maclean Rogers
Based onstory by A. Hilarius & Rudolph Bernauer
Produced by Frederic Zelnik
Starring Leni Lynn
Will Fyffe
Jackie Hunter
Cinematography James Wilson
Edited byDonald Ginsberg
Music by Kennedy Russell
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 14 May 1945 (1945-05-14)(UK)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Give Me the Stars is a 1945 British musical drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Leni Lynn, Will Fyffe, Jackie Hunter and Olga Lindo. [1] American Toni Martin travels to Scotland and finds herself looking after her cranky grandfather Hector MacTavish, and even taking over his music hall act.

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Critical reception

Allmovie wrote, "While tolerably produced, Give Me the Stars rather resembles an elongated music hall sketch. But Will Fyffe was enormously popular, and the film brought in the shillings." [2]

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References

  1. "Give Me the Stars (1944)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
  2. "Give Me the Stars (1944) - Maclean Rogers - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".