Kipps (1941)
Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash society; it was later the basis of the Tommy Steele musical Half a Sixpence. Michael Redgrave is Arthur Kipps, a nondescript storekeeper who finds himself heir to a large fortune. Society golddigger Helen Walshinham (Diana Wynyard) immediately comes on the scene, hoping to trick Kipps into marrying her. Right before the wedding, Kipps gets cold feet and instead runs off with his childhood sweetheart, Ann Pornick (Phyllis Calvert). The two get married but Ann wants to live simply while Kipps continues to want to live large with his inherited fortune. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, (more)
- Director(s):
- Carol Reed
Synopsis of Kipps
Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash society; it was later the basis of the Tommy Steele musical Half a Sixpence. Michael Redgrave is Arthur Kipps, a nondescript storekeeper who finds himself heir to a large fortune. Society golddigger Helen Walshinham (Diana Wynyard) immediately comes on the scene, hoping to trick Kipps into marrying her. Right before the wedding, Kipps gets cold feet and instead runs off with his childhood sweetheart, Ann Pornick (Phyllis Calvert). The two get married but Ann wants to live simply while Kipps continues to want to live large with his inherited fortune. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
Complete Cast of Kipps
- Michael Redgrave - Arthur Kipps
- Phyllis Calvert - Ann Pornick as a woman
- Arthur Riscoe - Chitterlow
- Helen Haye - Mrs. Walshingham
- Edward Rigby - Buggins
- Hermione Baddeley - Miss Mergle
- Arthur Denton - Carshot
- Frank Pettingell - Old Kipps
- Philip Sydney Frost - Arthur Kipps as a boy
- Irene Browne - Mrs. Bindon-Botting
- Muriel Aked
- Robert McCarthy
- Felix Aylmer
- Diana Wynyard - Helen Walshingham
- Michael Wilding, Sr. - Ronnie Walshingham
- Max Adrian - Chester Coote
- Lloyd Pearson - Shalford
- Mackenzie Ward - Pearce
- Betty Ann Davies - Flo Bates
- Betty Jardine - Doris
- Beatrice Varley - Mrs. Kipps
- George Carney - Old Pornick
- Peter Graves - Sidney Revel
- Kathleen Harrison
- Sean Barry-Weske - Baby Artie Kipps
- Phyllis Coates
- Director(s):
- Carol Reed
- Writer(s):
- Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
- Producer(s):
- Edward Black
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