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Calling the Tune is a British film of genre Drama directed by Thorold Dickinson with Sally Gray

Calling the Tune (1936)

Calling the Tune
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Length 1h20
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Genres Drama,    Musical
Rating57% 2.8792552.8792552.8792552.8792552.879255

Calling the Tune is a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Reginald Denham and Thorold Dickinson and starring Adele Dixon, Sally Gray and Sam Livesey. It was made at Ealing Studios The film's sets were designed by the art director R. Holmes Paul.

Actors

Sally Gray

(Margaret Gordon)Clifford Evans

(Peter Mallory)Donald Wolfit

(Dick Finlay)Eliot Makeham

(Stephen Harbord)Ronald Simpson

(Bramwell)
And :
Robb Wilton
George Robey
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