Going Gay

Going Gay
Opening title
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Written by	Selwyn Jepson K.R.G. Browne Jack Marks
Produced by	Frank Richardson Louis Whitman
Starring	Arthur Riscoe Naunton Wayne Magda Schneider
Cinematography	Willy Goldberger
Edited by	Thorold Dickinson
Music by	W.L. Trytel
Production company	Windsor Films
Distributed by	Sterling Films
Release date	30 September 1933 (1933-09-30)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Going Gay is a 1933 British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Arthur Riscoe, Naunton Wayne and Magda Schneider.^[1] It was made at British and Dominion's Elstree Studios.^[2] It was followed by a sequel For Love of You, also released the same year.^[3]

Plot

English friends in Vienna are rivals in love for a lady singer, but both unite in their attempts to make her a star of the opera.

Cast

• Arthur Riscoe as Jack
• Naunton Wayne as Jim
• Magda Schneider as Grete, a Viennese Girl
• Ruth Maitland as Mother
• Victor Fairley as Grete's Father
• Richard Wydler as Grete's Brother
• Brenda Senton as Grete's Sister
• Wilfred Noy as Director of Opera Falkenheim
• Grete Natzler as Director of Opera's Daughter
• Joe Hayman as Impresario
• Bertha Belmore as Masculine Lady at TableTen

References

1. "Going Gay (1934)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020.
2. Wood p.77
3. "For Love of You - BFI Filmography". filmography.bfi.org.uk.^{[dead link‍]}

Bibliography

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

External links

• Going Gay at IMDb