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Dame Gracie Fields (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 1898 – 27 September 1979) was a British actress, singer and comedian.A star of cinema and music hall, [2] [3] she was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered the highest paid film star in the world in 1937. [4]
"Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye" is a song by Phil Park and Harry Parr-Davies, made popular during the Second World War by Gracie Fields. It appeared in Fields' 1939 film Shipyard Sally. Its use in the film is patriotic, Stephen C. Shafer argues, although the song in this context did not reference the war, as the film was released prior to ...
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"The Biggest Aspidistra in the World" is a comic song first recorded by English singer Gracie Fields in November 1938, for inclusion in the film Keep Smiling. The song was written by Tommie Connor and Jimmy Harper (aka James S. Hancock), co-credited to music publisher Will Haines, and the recording was arranged by George Scott-Wood. [1]
"Sally in Our Alley" is a traditional English song, originally written by Henry Carey in 1725. [ citation needed ] It became a standard of British popular music over the following century. [ 1 ] The expression also entered popular usage, giving its name to a 1902 Broadway musical and several films including Sally in Our Alley , the 1931 screen ...
"The Thing-ummy-Bob", a British song made popular by Gracie Fields [1] A woman machining an engine block on the home front during World War II. " The Thing-ummy-Bob [That's Going To Win The War]" is a 1942 song, written by Barbara Gordon and Basil Thomas with music by David Heneker , which celebrates the female production-line workers of World ...
"Sally" is a popular song written by Leo Towers, Harry Leon and Will E. Haines. It was first sung by Gracie Fields in the 1931 film Sally in Our Alley. [1] [2] [3] "Sally" was released on His Master's Voice as the B-side of the record "Fall In and Follow the Band". [4] Merseybeat group The Koobas covered the song in 1967 and released it as a ...
Shipyard Sally is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard and Norma Varden. [2] The film is notable for the song "Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye", which became a major hit. [3]