The Street Singer (1937 film)

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The Street Singer
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Lobby card of Margaret Lockwood & Arthur Tracy
Directed by Jean de Marguenat
Screenplay by Reginald Arkell
Story byJean de Marguenat
Paul Schiller
Produced by Dora Nirva
Starring Arthur Tracy
Arthur Riscoe
Margaret Lockwood
Cinematography Henry Harris
Edited by Douglas Myers
Music by Rawicz and Landauer
Lew Stone (musical director)
Production
company
Distributed by Associated British Picture Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • December 1937 (1937-12)(UK)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Street Singer (aka, Interval for Romance) is a 1937 British musical film directed by Jean de Marguenat and starring Arthur Tracy, Margaret Lockwood and Arthur Riscoe. [1] The screenplay concerns a famous musician who is mistaken for a street singer. It was an early role for Margaret Lockwood. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin Scharf.

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Plot

Richard, a famous musical comedy star, is mistaken for a beggar by an orphan, Jenny.

Cast

Production

The film was produced by a woman, Dora Nirva, making her the first woman to be credited as producer of a British film. [2] [3]

The movie was devised as a vehicle for Arthur Tracy. Margaret Lockwood was borrowed from Gainsborough to play the female lead. Her biographer wrote "Margaret’s role reduced her to little more than a ‘feed’ for Tracy as a girl busker who mistakes him for a tramp and takes him under her wing." [4]

The movie was known as Interval for Romance and was filmed in late 1936. [5] It was the first in a series of productions for British National. [6]

Reception

Variety called it "a Prince Charming story which should have considerable appeal to the populace." [7]

Picturegoer called it "an unpretentious British musical." [8]

References

  1. ↑ BFI.org
  2. ↑ "WOMAN FILM PRODUCER". The Age . No. 25, 818. Victoria, Australia. 15 January 1938. p. 6 (THE AGE HOME SECTION). Retrieved 15 August 2025– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (14 September 2025). "Forgotten British Film Moguls: Lady Yule". Filmink. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
  4. ↑ Tims, Hilton (1989). Once a wicked lady : a biography of Margaret Lockwood. W.H. Allen. p. 64.
  5. ↑ "Tracy in reverse". Picturegoer. 19 December 1936. p. 17.
  6. ↑ "29, and serious". Sunday Dispatch. 29 November 1936. p. 12.
  7. ↑ "The Street Singer". Variety. 24 March 1937. p. 16.
  8. ↑ "The Street Singer". Picturegoer. 13 November 1937. p. 26.


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