Il paradiso delle donne

Titolo originale: Maytime in Mayfair

1949
1h 34min

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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAn English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches ... Leggi tuttoAn English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches and romance. -- SimonJackAn English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches and romance. -- SimonJack

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Anna Neagle

Eileen Grahame

Michael Wilding

Michael Gore-Brown

Peter Graves

D'Arcy Davenport

Nicholas Phipps

Sir Henry Hazelrigg

Thora Hird

Janet

Michael Shepley

Shepherd

Tom Walls

Inspector

Max Kirby

Mr. Keats

Desmond Walter-Ellis

Mr. Shelley

Tom Walls Jr.

Policeman

Doris Rogers

Lady Manbury-Logan-Manbury

Mona Washbourne

Lady Leveson

Glen Alyn

Hortense de la Boer
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Hyma Beckley

Wedding Guest
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Joan Benham

Fashion Editor
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Dorothy Bramhall

Flower Shop Assistant
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Pat Clare

Ballet Fitter
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Anita D'Ray

Assistant
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Regia
- Herbert Wilcox
Sceneggiatura
- Nicholas Phipps
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This film received a landmark color television presentation in Philadelphia, Saturday 6 October 1956, on WFIL (Channel 6), as Ford Film Playhouse's promotional introduction to the new line of 1957 Fords; at this time color TV was still in its infancy, usually limited to special presentations, most often on the National Broadcasting Company's affiliated stations, of which WFIL was not the local representative. Vintage feature films, which may have been original filmed in Technicolor, even comparatively recent ones like this one, which was only seven years old at the time, were not considered worthy of this special treatment, with added costs passed along to the sponsors, so were normally only shown in B&W. In this case, since the film was of British origin, there was not the problem of all the automobiles being of noticeable vintage, since British automotive styles were less familiar to American audiences, and more difficult to date. However, the years had not been kind to the so-called "New Look" women's fashions of 1948-1949 so prominently displayed, and which by 1956 had long since become the "Old Look."

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When Janet tells Eileen that Mr. Keats and Mr. Shelley are in the office with Michael, Eileen asks who they are. Yet, she saw a telegram just the day before from Keats and Shelley to D'Arcy about their buying Michael's dress shop for a trifle.

Citazioni
Sir Henry Hazelrigg: ...and this fellow actually came to the Viceroy's party wearing suede shoes.
D'Arcy Davenport: Good grief.
Sir Henry Hazelrigg: Imagine turning up to ride an elephant wearing suede shoes.
D'Arcy Davenport: Revolting. He was asked to leave of course?
Sir Henry Hazelrigg: Of course!

Curiosità sui crediti
Opening credits: MAYFAIR a District in the Heart of London MAYFAIR FOUNDED in 1750 by Thomas Howard ! MAYFAIR CONFOUNDED in 1920 by Michael Arlen !! MAYFAIR DUMBFOUNDED in 1948 by Sir Stafford Cripps !!!

Connessioni
Featured in McVicar (1980)

Colonne sonore
Maytime in Mayfair
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Parr Davies
Lyrics by Harold Purcell

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Neagle and Wilding

Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding made 7 films together. At their best, they were paired in glossy, stylish musical comedies like MAYTIME IN MAYFAIR, which is a remake of ROBERTA.

Here, Wilding plays a penniless charmer who inherits a dress shop. The shop is managed by stylish but aloof Anna Neagle. He knows nothing about clothes but is instantly smitten. Along for the ride is his friend (Nicholas Phipps) who gets drunks and divulges details of the fall collection to a rival (Peter Graves) who insists on singing all the time.

After the papers break the news of the new fashions, Neagle takes off in a snit with Graves, leaving Wilding to fail and sell the business. Will things get straightened out? The film's highlights are two musical dream sequences. In one, Wilding imagines the beautiful Neagle as a famous model. In the other, Neagles imagines a slow-motion dance with Wilding. Bother are well done. There's also a big fashion show sequence with all the major London designers represented.

Neagle and Wilding are a perfect team. Neagle has a regal beauty, a good sense of humor and a decent singing and dancing talent. Wilding has a goofy charm that goes well with Neagle's icy demeanor and also dances well. They were hugely popular with British audiences in the 40s and 50s. Phipps is fun as the dopey friend but was also an accomplished director and writer (he wrote the script for this film).

Co-stars include Tom Walls as the inspector, Thora Hird as Janet, Mona Washbourne as Lady Levenson, and Colette Melville as Priscilla.

Fun film. Listen closely to Wilding's jokey asides. Funny!