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Just for a Song is a film of genre Musical with Lillian Hall-Davis

Just for a Song (1930)

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Genres Musical

Just for a Song is a 1930 British musical film directed by Gareth Gundrey and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Roy Royston and Constance Carpenter. Some singing and dancing sequences were photographed in an early colour process, believed to be Pathécolor. This film is believed to be lost.

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Lillian Hall-Davis

(Norma Wentworth)Roy Royston

(Jack)Constance Carpenter

(Jill)Cyril Ritchard

(Craddock)Syd Crossley

(Stage Manager)
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