The George Formby Film Collection [DVD] [2009]

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Halliwell's Film Guide comments, "one of the last good Formby comedies, with everything percolating as it should". [1] Formby has been the subject of five biographies as of 2014. In the late 1960s Harry Scott published his reminiscences of Formby, The Fabulous Formby, in 14 issues of The Vellum, the magazine of the George Formby Society; [222] [y] John Fisher published George Formby in 1975 before Alan Randall and Ray Seaton published their book in 1974 and David Bret produced George Formby: A Troubled Genius in 1999. [224] [225] The last of the five to be published was by Sue Smart and Richard Bothway Howard in 2011, It's Turned Out Nice Again!. [226] There have also been two documentaries on British television, an edition of The South Bank Show in 1992, and Frank Skinner on George Formby in 2011. [227] This article is about the ukulele player, singer and comedian. For his father (1875–1921), see George Formby Sr.

A group of art students help a reserved odd-job man pursue his interest in painting nude portraits.Pratt, Vic. "Turned Out Nice Again (1941)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 27 May 2014. In the summer of 1942 Formby was involved in a controversy with the Lord's Day Observance Society, who had filed law suits against the BBC for playing secular music on Sunday. The society began a campaign against the entertainment industry, claiming all theatrical activity on a Sunday was unethical, and cited a 1667 law which made it illegal. With 60 leading entertainers already avoiding Sunday working, Dean informed Formby that his stance would be crucial in avoiding a spread of the problem. Formby issued a statement, "I'll hang up my uke on Sundays only when our lads stop fighting and getting killed on Sundays... as far as the Lord's Day Observance Society are concerned, they can mind their own bloody business. And in any case, what have they done for the war effort except get on everyone's nerves?" The following day it was announced that the pressure from the society was to be lifted. [105]

No Limit is a 1935 British musical comedy starring George Formby and Florence Desmond. The film, which was directed by Monty Banks, was made on location at the TT motorcycle race on the Isle of Man. It was the first of eleven films that Formby made for Associated Talking Pictures. [1] The Tourist Trophy in Old Photographs Collected by Bill Snelling. pp121 Sutton Publishing ISBN 1-84015-059-9 Boots! Boots! (1934)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. McCann, Graham (2009). Bounder! The Biography of Terry-Thomas. London: Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1-84513-441-9. Pratt, Vic. "Let George Do It! (1940)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 27 May 2014.

The English comic, singer and actor George Formby (1904–1961) performed in many mediums of light entertainment, including film, radio and theatre. His career spanned from 1915 until December 1960. During that time he became synonymous with playing "a shy, innocent, gauche, accident-prone Lancashire lad". [1] In 1923 Formby started to play the ukulele, although the exact circumstances of how he came to play the instrument are unknown, [25] [c] and he introduced it into his act during a run at the Alhambra Theatre in Barnsley. When the songs—still his father's material—were well received, he changed his stage name to George Formby, and stopped using the John Willie character. [26] Another significant event was his appearance in Castleford, West Yorkshire, where appearing on the same bill was Beryl Ingham, an Accrington-born champion clogdancer and actress who had won the All England Step Dancing title at the age of 11. Beryl, who had formed a dancing act with her sister, May, called "The Two Violets", [27] had a low opinion of Formby's act, and later said that "if I'd had a bag of rotten tomatoes with me I'd have thrown them at him". [28] Formby and Beryl entered into a relationship and married two years later, on 13 September 1924, at a register office in Wigan, with Formby's aunt and uncle as witnesses. [29] [30] Upon hearing the news, Eliza insisted on the couple having a church wedding, which followed two months later. [31] An advertisement from The Burnley News, May 1921 for George Hoy George Formby Sr, "Standing on the Corner of the Street"; his luxury item was his first ukulele. [153] [154]

An incompetent apprentice sound engineer passes off an established performer's song as his own and becomes an overnight star.Murphy, Robert (2000). British Cinema and the Second World War. London: Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-5139-2. Aldgate, Anthony; Richards, Jeffrey (1994). Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-0508-8.

Turned Out Nice Again (1941)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. a b "Filmography: Formby, George". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 19 January 2009 . Retrieved 27 May 2014. a b c d McFarlane, Brian. "Formby, George (1904–1961)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 16 June 2014.Magee, Sean (2012). Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways. London: Random House. ISBN 978-0-593-07006-2.