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Stars in Your Eyes: the 50s musical saluting actors in a crisis by Chris Wiegand

Our series on films about theatre continues with a British comedy in which variety acts face an existential threat when TV steals their audience Theatres around the country are shutting their doors and there are scarce opportunities on stage for actors. That's the grimly familiar scenario in the 1956 British film Stars in Your Eyes, which charts the final years of variety. But this musical comedy " received as "cheer…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM on February 16, 2021

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