Kay Walsh Movies
A former dancer and West End Revue performer, Kay Walsh entered films in 1934. Married for a time to director David Lean, Walsh appeared in Lean's In Which We Serve (1942) as Freda Lewis, This Happy Breed (1944) as Queenie Gibbons, The October Man (1947) as Molly, and Oliver Twist (1948) as Nancy Sykes. She returned to her music halls roots in the "Red Peppers" segment of Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 (1952). Active in films into the 1980s, Kay Walsh was also a semi-regular on the 1979 Anglo-Polish TV series Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide- 1937
Leading man Richard Hayward took no chances in Luck of the Irish, serving as the film's co-producer with former Paramount talent scout Donovan Pedelty (who also directed). Filmed in its entirety in Northern Ireland, the film utilizes the considerable talents of the Belfast Repertory Theater. Hayward plays Sam Mulhern, a faithful family butler whose master, Sir Brian O'Neal (J. R. Mageaus) has staked his entire future on the outcome of the Grand National steeplechase. Unfortunately, O'Neal's horse loses the race, and soon the attachment men have come calling to his ancestral home. The rest of the picture concerns the efforts, both comic and frenetic, made by Mulhern to rescue the O'Neal clan from the poorhouse. Of interest is the presence of Niall McGinniss, later a familiar character actor (Martin Luther, Night of the Demon), as the nominal romantic lead, opposite heroine Kay Walsh. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Hayward, Kay Walsh, (more)
- 1937
In this comedy, a scrawny barber must compete with a muscle bound thug for the love of a manicurist. Naturally the manicurist is most attracted to the brute until the barber can prove that he is a crook. The two then duke it out in the boxing ring. Later it is the weakling who gets the girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1937
In this British adventure, a shipwrecked fellow is saved by the captain of another ship. While aboard, the survivor falls in love with the captains daughter. The unlucky fellow finds himself shipwrecked a second time. Once again, he is saved by the captain who also manages to save his brother and patch up their differences. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1936
When a socialist barber inherits a royal title, he adapts his political opinions in this political and social satire. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1936
In this actioner, two guards lose their jobs after they start a fight with a lascivious Arab prince who tries to seduce one of their girl friends. Fortunately, the girl friend's father is thankful and gives her love a job managing one of his tobacco warehouses in Turkey. Unfortunately, he meets a beautiful Russian girl there and soon falls in love. Later he learns that she is being used by the prince who is conspiring to take over the Turkish government. Later his ex-partner and his girl come to Turkey to help him stop the prince. Action ensues, but in the end the prince is defeated and Turkey is saved. In 1940, the film was reissued as The Spy in White. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Valerie Hobson, Frank Vosper, (more)
