Second Best Bed is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Jane Baxter and Veronica Rose.[1] The screenplay is by Ben Travers, based on an earlier story of his. Walls and Travers had worked together on the Aldwych farces. The screenplay concerns a newly married couple who soon run into domestic difficulties when the wife refuses to obey her husband's every order.[2]

Second Best Bed
Directed byTom Walls
Written byBen Travers
Produced byMax Schach
Starring
CinematographyJack E. Cox
Edited byLynn Harrison
Music byVan Phillips
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • January 1938 (1938-01)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

It was an independent production made at Shepperton Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Murton.

Main cast

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Lanier, Douglas (2006). "Film Spin-offs and Citations: On the Virtues of Illegitimacy". In Burt, Richard (ed.). Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Vol. One. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780313331169.
edit