The George Formby Film Collection [DVD] [2009]

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Formby's screen persona influenced Norman Wisdom in the 1950s and Charlie Drake in the following decade, although both these performers used pathos, which Formby avoided. [209] [215] Much Too Shy (1942)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014.

South American George (1941)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. a b c Botting, Jo. "Boots! Boots! (1934)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 15 June 2014. The saboteurs include fellow police officers who plan to shoot Formby in a remote area but he escapes in a motorised toy car. A crazy chase ensues ending in Formby going round and round a wall of death before foiling the plot. Womaniser! Depressive! Junkie! By George!; The Bitter Battle for the Memory of One Man and His Little Ukulele". The Independent. London. 22 June 1999. pp.1 & 8. George Formby Discography". The George Formby Society. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014 . Retrieved 28 May 2014.An amateur racing driver unexpectedly wins the Isle of Man's Tourist Trophy and the heart of a charm-school actress. The ukulele expert Steven Sproat considers that Formby "was incredible... There hasn't really been a uke player since Formby—or even before Formby—who played quite like him". Much of Formby's virtuosity came from his right-hand technique, the split stroke, [6] [211] and he developed his own fast and complicated syncopated musical style with a very fast right-hand strum. [6] [212] [213] Joe Cooper, writing in New Society, considered that "Nobody has ever reproduced the casual devastating right hand syncopation, which so delicately synchronised with deft left hand chord fingering". [214] Legacy [ edit ] The statue of Formby on the Isle of Man He Snoops to Conquer (1944)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. Roach, Martin (2008). The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-1537-2. Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned. BBC Four. 11 July 2014 . Retrieved 15 August 2014.

Further information: George Formby on screen, stage, record and radio Formby in the early 1920s, when still playing John Willie McCann, Graham (2009). Bounder! The Biography of Terry-Thomas. London: Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1-84513-441-9. Leigh, Spencer (14 December 2007). "Unfit for Auntie's airwaves: The artists censored by the BBC". The Independent. London. In 1923 Formby started to play the ukulele, although the exact circumstances of how he came to play the instrument are unknown, [25] [c] and he introduced it into his act during a run at the Alhambra Theatre in Barnsley. When the songs—still his father's material—were well received, he changed his stage name to George Formby, and stopped using the John Willie character. [26] Another significant event was his appearance in Castleford, West Yorkshire, where appearing on the same bill was Beryl Ingham, an Accrington-born champion clogdancer and actress who had won the All England Step Dancing title at the age of 11. Beryl, who had formed a dancing act with her sister, May, called "The Two Violets", [27] had a low opinion of Formby's act, and later said that "if I'd had a bag of rotten tomatoes with me I'd have thrown them at him". [28] Formby and Beryl entered into a relationship and married two years later, on 13 September 1924, at a register office in Wigan, with Formby's aunt and uncle as witnesses. [29] [30] Upon hearing the news, Eliza insisted on the couple having a church wedding, which followed two months later. [31] An advertisement from The Burnley News, May 1921 for George HoyThe Times critic wrote in 1940: "the structure of Mr. George Formby's films do not alter very much, and the same blue-print that has done serviceable work in the past was taken out of its drawer for Spare a Copper". [3] George Formby OBE (born George Hoy Booth; 26 May 1904– 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comic songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer. Napper, Lawrence. "Dean, Basil (1888–1978)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 19 June 2014. A bungling recruit begins his R.A.F. training and gets mistaken for a regularly enlisted airman, much to the annoyance of his strict sergeant major. You know, some of the songs are a bit near. But they'll take them from me in evening dress; they wouldn't take them if I wore baggy pants and rednose".