Sing as We Go!

Little wonder that Gracie was one of the top film stars of the thirties.Her exuberant personality shines through throughout the film. The film is now almost a social document showing how holidays were spent in Blackpool. This is still a very entertaining film

The Blackpool crowd is almost the star, accompanied always by the wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!! sounds of the funfair. Gracie has a hopeless crush on the millowner's son, but goggle-eyed Hezekiah Crawther pops up at the psychological moment to sing a heartrending harmony to her heartbroken ballad. Their rendition of 'Thora' with Gracie in a false moustache is also one to treasure. Will Grace find happiness with Stanley Holloway's policeman? She deserves to. A perfect vignette of a crowd, a place, a time.

It was another world. "'t Mill closed" doesn't ring much with us today, but it was life and death to the working towns of north England. Gracie plays her usual role as the decent "Our Gracie" character she really was, and doesn't, as usual, get her man- but she stays ours. Interesting film to watch as an almost-documentary: lots of behind-the-action shots of what life was like in that set, at that time of history.