Meet the Navy

Meet the Navy

85 mins | Comedy, War, Music | Sept. 2, 1946

During World War II, the Canadian Navy gathered a troupe of diverse performers (dancers, comedians, singers, musicians) from its ranks and sent them off to entertain their shipmates, and the show/revue ultimately played London's Hioopodrome. The acceptance was based more on wartime-London's appreciation of the gallantry of Britain's sons and daughters from over the seas than it was on the artistic value of the show or the talent of the performers. The film is a fictional/fact mixture of the adventures of the troupe members, and the ending, only part filmed in Technicolor, is primarily the Revue as seen at the Hippodrome.

Meet the Navy

85 mins | Comedy, War, Music | Sept. 2, 1946

Meet the Navy
During World War II, the Canadian Navy gathered a troupe of diverse performers (dancers, comedians, singers, musicians) from its ranks and sent them off to entertain their shipmates, and the show/revue ultimately played London's Hioopodrome. The acceptance was based more on wartime-London's appreciation of the gallantry of Britain's sons and daughters from over the seas than it was on the artistic value of the show or the talent of the performers. The film is a fictional/fact mixture of the adventures of the troupe members, and the ending, only part filmed in Technicolor, is primarily the Revue as seen at the Hippodrome.
Producers British National Films
Original title Meet the Navy
Directors Alfred Travers, Gerry O'Hara
Writers Lester Cooper

Cast

Lionel Murton

as Johnny

Margaret Hurst

as Midge

John Pratt

as Horace

Robert Goodier

as Tommy

Phyllis Hudson

as Jenny

Percy Haynes

as Cook

Jeanette De Hueck

as Gracie

Oscar Natzke

as Fisherman