Keep Your Seats, Please! (1936)

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George Formby

George Withers

Florence Desmond

Florrie

Gus McNaughton

Max

Alastair Sim

A. S. Drayton

Harry Tate

Auctioneer

Enid Stamp-Taylor

Madame Louise

Hal Gordon

Sailor

Tom Payne

Man from Child Welfare

Beatrix Fielden-Kaye

Woman from Child Welfare

Clifford Heatherley

Dr. G. Wilberforce

Binkie Stuart

Binkie

Mae Bacon

Minor role
(uncredited)

Harvey Braban

Detective Jones
(uncredited)

Ethel Coleridge

Spinster
(uncredited)

Syd Crossley

Bus Conductor
(uncredited)

Maud Gill

Fannie Tidmarsh
(uncredited)

Jimmy Godden

X-Ray Doctor
(uncredited)

Mike Johnson

Mr. O'Flaherty
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Producer Basil Dean argued against Monty Banks using Binkie Stuart for Florrie's niece, thinking her too young and inexperienced (she had come to fame at age two by winning the "Daily Mail"'s "London's Most Beautiful Baby" competition) to be able to carry off the part believably. The director ignored him, setting the child off on a brief run as the UK's answer to Shirley Temple.

Goofs
"Is that the one?" asks Max of a chair at Dr Wilberforce's surgery - despite the fact that he has already seen one of the set at Madame Louise's vocal school.

Connections
Featured in Shepperton Babylon (2005)

Soundtracks
Keep Your Seats, Please!
(uncredited)
Written by George Formby, Harry Gifford & Fred E. Cliffe
Performed by George Formby

Formby still searching for the formula and gets to sing 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.

Out of work and dossing around, George (George Formby), the favourite nephew of a favourite wealthy aunt (Dame May Whitty) is left a secret inheritance after the aunt dies, but the cheque has been sewn into a seat that has been auctioned off with many of her other possessions. George learns of this and learning that all seven dining room chairs have been sold separately seeks them out.

Turned into a Formby vehicle from a novel by Ilya Ilf and adapted by regular Formby writer Anthony Kimmins and Thomas J. Geraghty and Ian Hay, this is a good early star turn as Formby/Kimmins still tries to find the formula that works for his films. There are plenty of laughs and set pieces, some quite hilarious. Produced by Basil Dean, Formby even gets to sing one of his best known songs, 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.