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Mayfair Melody

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Mayfair Melody
Directed byArthur B. Woods
Written byJames Dyrenforth
Produced byIrving Asher
StarringKeith Falkner
Chili Bouchier
CinematographyBasil Emmott
Music byKenneth Leslie-Smith
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release date
  • 2 March 1937 (1937-03-02)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Mayfair Melody is a 1937 British musical film, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring popular bass-baritone singer Keith Falkner in the first of his three screen performances.

It was made at Teddington Studios by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers.[1] The film was a quota quickie production, featuring Falkner as a factory hand whose wonderful singing voice is discovered by the daughter of the factory owner. She then guides him up the ladder to fame and fortune as a professional singer. Mayfair Melody is now classed as a lost film.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Wood p.91
  2. ^ Missing Believed Lost British Pictures Article Archive.

Bibliography

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  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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