The George Formby Film Collection [DVD] [2009]

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Beryl's absence from the film set was for medical reasons; she either fell from a horse, or was having her appendix removed. [64]

Centenary of the Borough of Douglas 1896-1996 Gordon N.Kniverton The Manx Experience pp109 ISBN 1-873120-21-4 Feather Your Nest (1936)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 22 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. Mistakenly Formby's character lays himself open to a bribe by stating that he "wouldn't ride again for fifty quid", a bribe which Turner is happy to pay, and ensures such by taking the Shuttleworth Snap up to the Marine Drive where Formby's character rides it over a cliff. MacFarlane, Thomas (2007). The Beatles' Abbey Road Medley: Extended Forms in Popular Music. Lanham, MA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4617-3659-2. The Tourist Trophy in Old Photographs Collected by Bill Snelling. pp121 Sutton Publishing ISBN 1-84015-059-9

Halliwell's Film Guide comments, "one of the last good Formby comedies, with everything percolating as it should". [1] 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] Keep Your Seats Please (1936)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. Mundy, John (2007). The British Musical Film. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6321-3. Leigh, Spencer (14 December 2007). "Unfit for Auntie's airwaves: The artists censored by the BBC". The Independent. London.

The film was released in late October 1935 and was an immediate commercial success. [10] It was reissued in 1938, 1946 and 1957. In 1936, the film put Formby fourth on the list of top box-office draws at the cinema in the UK. [11]Waddington, Andrew. " 'George Formby' tram prepares for service". British Trams Online . Retrieved 25 June 2014.

Also described as a "hapless 'everyman' character who manages to prevail against overwhelming odds". [51] George Formby (1904–1961) 2004 Hall of Fame Inductee". The Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014 . Retrieved 17 July 2014.

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 Much Too Shy (1942)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. With Formby's growing success on stage, Beryl decided it was time for him to move into films. In 1934 she approached the producer Basil Dean, the head of Associated Talking Pictures (ATP). Although he expressed an interest in Formby, he did not like the associated demands from Beryl. She also met the representative of Warner Bros. in the UK, Irving Asher, who was dismissive, saying that Formby was "too stupid to play the bad guy and too ugly to play the hero". Three weeks later Formby was approached by John E. Blakeley of Blakeley's Productions, who offered him a one-film deal. [40] This article is about the ukulele player, singer and comedian. For his father (1875–1921), see George Formby Sr. Womaniser! Depressive! Junkie! By George!; The Bitter Battle for the Memory of One Man and His Little Ukulele". The Independent. London. 22 June 1999. pp.1 & 8.

Murphy, Robert (2000). British Cinema and the Second World War. London: Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-5139-2. As of 2014 there are two public statues of Formby. The first, by the Manx artist Amanda Barton, is in Douglas, Isle of Man, and shows him leaning on a lamp-post and dressed in the motorcycle leathers of a TT racer. Barton was also commissioned to provide a second statue for the Lancashire town of Wigan, which was unveiled in September 2007 in the town's Grand Arcade shopping centre. [221] Bell Bottom George (1944)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014.Turned Out Nice Again (1941)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014.