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    Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)

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    Pretty Marjorie Clark (Pauline Stroud) – whose parents run the local corner shop – wins a beauty competition in her Midlands town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession in Coventry as Lady Godiva (though not in the buff).

    Against the wishes of her puritanical old father (Stanley Holloway) and her possessive boyfriend Johnny (George Cole) the impressionable and naive lass enters another beauty contest, and accidentally wins after the organiser attempts to rig the contest in favour of his girlfriend – but she and Marjorie swap gowns.

    Marjorie becomes a national celebrity and – for a time – enjoys success as a model, but has less success when she tries to conquer the world of showbiz.

    She eventually ends up as a nude Lady Godiva in a seedy flea-pit of a theatre, watched by her outraged parents who have come to see her.

    Dennis Price appears as Simon Abbott, a smoothly lecherous matinee idol who tries to get every girl he meets into bed with him and there is an amusing cameo from Alastair Sim as Hawtrey Mewington – an ageing, down-on-his-luck film producer.

    Released in the USA as Bikini Baby.

    TRIVIA
    Joan Collins features as a Beauty Queen contestant in her movie debut. One of the other contestants is a dark-haired Ruth Ellis, later to become infamous as the last woman hanged in Britain for murder.

    Marjorie Clark
    Pauline Stroud
    Simon Abbott
    Dennis Price
    Larry Burns
    John McCallum
    Mr Clark
    Stanley Holloway
    Mrs Clark
    Gladys Henson
    Janie
    Bernadette O’Farrell
    Johnny
    George Cole
    Dolores August
    Diana Dors
    Eddie Mooney
    Eddie Byrne
    Sylvia
    Kay Kendall
    Beattie
    Renee Houston
    Lew Beeson
    Sidney James
    Harry
    Cyril Chamberlain
    Vic Kennedy
    Lyn Evans
    Mr Green
    Fred Berger
    Buller
    John Harvey
    Susan
    Patricia Goddard
    Otto Mann
    Richard Wattis
    Lady in Charge of Publicity
    Dora Bryan
    Compere
    Tommy Duggan
    Comic
    Eddie Leslie
    Joe
    Michael Ripper
    Hawtrey Mewington
    Alastair Sim
    Lucille
    Charlotte Mitchell
    Lucille’s husband
    Toke Townley
    Susan Foster
    Googie Withers
    Singer at Dance
    Jimmy Young
    Dorothy Marlowe
    Violet Pretty
    Myrtle Shaw
    Dagmar Wynter

    Director
    Frank Launder

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