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

In this film - as in every Formby film - goofish gormless George always gets the girl. Why?

Cus he's a soft daft lad with a happy ukulele - and he's got all the best tunes.

Admittedly, the daft antics get more farcical - even positively ludicrous - as this film goes along (goat carried onto crowded bus wearing a dog mask being the silliest example)

The scene where a matronly nurse tries to take George's trousers off made my girlfriend laugh her mascara off. "Never touched me!" Not!

I was starting to feel myself "going daft" quite a bit at that too.

If you can't let yourself go daft watching a George Formby film you may as well watch something else.