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Discoveries (1940)

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Film details

Featuring

Carroll Levis Cyril Levis Ronald Shiner
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1940
Genres

Comedy Variety show Musical
Type

Film
Category

Non Fiction

Synopsis

Based on the BBC radio series with Carroll Levis searching for new talent. As Levis moves around the country auditioning talent, Jim Pike, trying to evade the police, joins as a stage hand, and Schwitzer and Spinelli, manufacturers of cheese and spaghetti respectively, vie with each other to become the show's sponsor. Alfredo, a waiter, also continually tries to get a spot on the show by approaching Levis at every opportunity, as does a young girl in hospital after being hit by a car while on her way to an earlier audition. Levis finally resolves the sponsor problem by suggesting a combined spaghetti and cheese hour.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - himself
    
    Carroll Levis
  - stage manager
    
    Cyril Levis
  - Jim Archibald Pike
    
    Ronald Shiner
  - Alfredo
    
    Afrique
  - Bella Brown
    
    Doris Hare
  - kitchen maid
    
    Kathleen Harrison
  - Policewoman Duggan
    
    Bertha Belmore
  - Emil Schwitzer
    
    Issy Bonn
  - Antonio Spinelli
    
    Vedey, Julien
  - Susy
    
    Wynne, Zoe
  - Pearl's mother
    
    Barbara Everest
  - photographer
    
    Frank Atkinson
  - the barbers
    
    The Three Ginx
  - discovery
    
    Archie Galbraith
  - discovery
    
    Tony Vaughan
  - discovery
    
    Pearl Venters
  - discovery
    
    David Delmonte
  - discovery
    
    Glyn Davies
  - discovery
    
    Ken Bonner
  - discovery
    
    Dump and Tony
  - discovery
    
    George Meaton
  - discovery
    
    The Radio Rascals
  - discovery
    
    May Patterson
  - discovery
    
    Edith Ellis
  - discovery
    
    Evelyne Skinner
  - discovery
    
    Cecil Phillips
  - discovery
    
    Wally Hill
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Directed by
    
    Redd Davis
  - A Vogue Production
    
    Vogue Film Productions
  - Asst. Director
    
    Arthur L. Gilmour
  - Original Story and Scenario
    
    De Grunewald, A.
  - Original Story and Scenario
    
    Cyril Campion
  - Original Story and Scenario
    
    Redd Davis
  - Camera
    
    Bryan Langley
  - Editor
    
    John Seabourne
  - Art Director
    
    Carter, James A.
  - Songs by
    
    Hugh Charles
  - Songs by
    
    Ross Parker
  - [Song] 'My Home in the Highlands' by
    
    Harry Rheim
  - and [Music] Played by
    
    Lew Stone and his Band
  - Music Arranged by
    
    Peter Akister
  - Songs 'I Wanna Be Discovered', 'It Began in Eden' and 'There'll Always Be an England' published by
    
    The Irwin Dash Music Co. Ltd
  - Sound
    
    Norman Daines
  - Sound
    
    Leo Wilkins
  - Studio
    
    Highbury Studios

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