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    Norman Truscott (Wisdom) is a meek and kindly trouser-presser at a cleaning shop with a nice voice who is duped into doing the crooning for has-been singer Vernon Carew (Jerry Desmonde) to lip-sync to.

    But Norman wants to get a shot at being on stage himself and finds help from fearsome elocution teacher Dymphna Dobson (Hattie Jacques) and his wheelchair-bound friend, Judy (June Laverick).

    TRIVIA NOTE
    When Norman is receiving tuition from Miss Dobson (Hattie Jacques) and Judy is giving a piano lesson to a young boy, the boy is Norman Wisdom’s real-life son Nick Wisdom.

    She also gives a lesson to another child later in the film. This child is also Norman’s – his daughter, Jacqui Wisdom.

    Norman Truscott
    Norman Wisdom
    Judy
    June Laverick
    Vernon Carew
    Jerry Desmonde
    Dymphna Dobson
    Hattie Jacques
    Dr Chatterway
    Richard Wattis
    Harold Franklin
    Eddie Leslie
    Birkett
    John Le Mesurier
    Pendlebury
    Sydney Tafler
    Lady Finchington
    Fenella Fielding
    The General
    Charles Heslop

    Director
    Robert Asher

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