Mrs Brown, You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter (1968)

Mrs Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter was simply a showcase for Peter Noone and the affable Lancastrian beat group Herman’s Hermits to perform their current hit songs.

The silly plot of the group attempting to enter their greyhound (with the unlikely name of ‘Mrs Brown’) in a dog race is only filler.

The innocent adventure involves Herman Tulley (Noone) and the boys – Derek, Karl, Keith, and Barry – leaving their native Manchester to take the dog (which Herman has inherited from his grandfather) to the heart of Swinging London for the Greyhound Derby final, where they hope to win some big money.

The dog is lost and then found, while a love interest of sorts develops. It’s an ongoing shambles of things going wrong until everyone eventually lives happily ever after.

Stanley Holloway plays a well-off working-class Covent Garden fruit merchant; Lance Percival is a high-born tramp; and Marjorie Rhodes gives one of her lovely down-to-earth characterisations as Herman’s grandma – though whoever decided it would be a good idea to make her burst into sickly sentimental song should be bound and gagged and dumped in the Manchester Ship Canal.

Herman’s Hermits perform Mrs Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter; Daisy Chain; Holiday Inn; Lemon and Lime; There’s a Kind of Hush; The World is for the Young; It’s Nice to be Out in the Morning; She’s Done It Again; All Over the World; Round the Corner and The Most Beautiful Thing in My Life.

Herman Tulley
Peter Noone
Karl
Karl Green
Keith
Keith Hopwood
Derek
Derek Leckenby
Barry
Barry Whitwam
G.G. Brown
Stanley Holloway
Mrs Brown
Mona Washbourne
Percy Sutton
Lance Percival
Grandma Gloria Tulley
Marjorie Rhodes
Tulip
Sheila White
Judy Brown
Sarah Caldwell
Swothard
Hugh Futcher
Clive
Drewe Henley
Tulip’s Mother
Avis Bunnage
Oakshot
John Sharp

Director
Saul Swimmer

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