Second Best Bed

Second Best Bed
Directed by	Tom Walls
Produced by	Max Schach
Written by	Ben Travers
Starring	Tom Walls Jane Baxter Veronica Rose
Music by	Van Phillips
Cinematography	Jack E. Cox
Edited by	Lynn Harrison
Production company	Capitol Film Corporation
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release dates	January 1938
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Second Best Bed is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Jane Baxter and Veronica Rose.^[1] The screenplay is by Ben Travers, based on an earlier story of his. Walls and Travers had worked together on the Aldwych farces. A newly married couple soon run into domestic difficulties when the wife refuses to obey her husband's every order.^[2]

It was an independent production made at Shepperton Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Murton.

Main cast

Tom Walls as Victor Garnett
Jane Baxter as Patricia Lynton
Veronica Rose as Jenny Murdoch
Carl Jaffe as Georges Dubonnet
Greta Gynt as Yvonne
Edward Lexy as Murdoch
Tyrell Davis as Whittaker
Mae Bacon as Mrs Whittaker
Ethel Coleridge as Mrs Knuckle
Davy Burnaby as Lord Kingston
Martita Hunt as Mrs Mather
Gordon James as Judge

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/49818
↑ Lanier, Douglas (2006). "Film Spin-offs and Citations: On the Virtues of Illegitimacy". In Burt, Richard. Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Volume One. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780313331169.

The films of Tom Walls

Rookery Nook (1930)
On Approval (1930)
Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930)
Tons of Money (1930)
Plunder (1931)
A Night Like This (1932)
Thark (1932)
Leap Year (1932)
The Blarney Stone (1933)
Leave It to Smith (1933)
A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
Turkey Time (1933)
A Cup of Kindness (1934)
Lady in Danger (1934)
Dirty Work (1934)
Fighting Stock (1935)
Stormy Weather (1935)
Foreign Affaires (1935)
Pot Luck (1936)
Dishonour Bright (1936)
For Valour (1937)
Second Best Bed (1938)
Old Iron (1938)

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

Characters	Katherina Minola Petruchio Bianca Minola Baptista Minola Christopher Sly

Stage adaptations	The Woman's Prize (c1611) Catharine and Petruchio (1754) Las bravías (1896) Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung (1872) Sly, ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato (1927) Kiss Me, Kate (1948) The Taming of the Shrew (1953) Ukroshchenye Stroptivoy (1957) Christopher Sly (1963)

Direct adaptations	1908 1929 1967 1980 (TV) 1994 (TV)

Other adaptations	Daring Youth (1924) You Made Me Love You (1933) Second Best Bed (1938) Kiss Me Kate (1953) Gundamma Katha (1962) Manithan Maravillai (1962) McLintock! (1963) Il Bisbetico Domato (1980) 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) O Cravo e a Rosa (2000; TV) Deliver Us from Eva (2003) The Taming of the Shrew (2005; TV) Frivolous Wife (2008) 10 Things I Hate About You (2009; TV) Isi Life Mein (2010)

Related	The Taming of the Shrew in performance The Taming of the Shrew on screen Shrew (stock character) Induction Love-in-idleness

External links

Second Best Bed at the Internet Movie Database

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