Much Too Shy

Much Too Shy
	Opening title card
Directed by	Marcel Varnel
Produced by	Marcel Varnel; Ben Henry (associate producer)
Written by	Walter Greenwood (screen adaptation); Michael Vaughan (additional scenes); John L. Arthur; Jack S. Marks
Based on	original story by Ronald Frankau
Starring	George Formby; Kathleen Harrison
Music by	Harry Bidgood (uncredited)
Cinematography	Arthur Crabtree
Edited by	Max Brenner; Kitty Spreckley
Production; company	Columbia British Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures Corporation (UK)
Release date	12 October 1942; (UK)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Much Too Shy is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby, Kathleen Harrison, Hilda Bayley and Eileen Bennett.[1] The cast includes radio star Jimmy Clitheroe (as George's brother), later "Carry On'" star Charles Hawtrey, Peter Gawthorne and Joss Ambler.

Formby's featured songs are They Laughed When I Started to Play (Formby/Cliffe), Talking to the Moon About You (Day), Delivering the Morning Milk (Formby/Gifford/Cliffe) and Andy the Handy Man, written by Eddie Latta.[2]

Plot summary

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.

Cast

George Formby – George Andy
Kathleen Harrison – Amelia Peabody
Hilda Bayley – Lady Driscoll
Eileen Bennett – Jackie Somers
Joss Ambler – Sir George Driscoll
Jimmy Clitheroe – Jimmy
Frederick Burtwell – Harefield
Brefni O'Rorke – Somers
Eric Clavering – Robert Latimer
Gibb McLaughlin – Reverend Sheepshanks
Peter Gawthorne – Counsel
Valentine Dyall - Defendant's Counsel
Gus McNaughton - Manager of Commercial Art School
Wally Patch - Police Man
Charles Hawtrey - Osbert, the Art Student

Critical reception

Halliwell's Film Guide called the film "a slightly vulgar and talkative farce which restricts the star".[2] A Radio Times reviewer commented, "although he was still Britain's biggest box office attraction, George Formby was already showing signs of the novelty fatigue that would result in the collapse of his screen career four years later...The cheeky wit that informed so many of Formby's songs is to the fore in this contrived comedy, but the storyline about the handyman with aspirations to become an artist simply isn't strong enough to sustain so much smutty innuendo".[3]

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References

"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 2 May 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
http://www.georgeformby.co.uk/films/shy/report1.html
http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jz5ym/much-too-shy

External links

Much Too Shy on IMDb

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[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 2 May 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[georgeformby-2] ttp://www.georgeformby.co.uk/films/shy/report1.html

[3] ttp://www.radiotimes.com/film/jz5ym/much-too-shy