Five Guineas a Week(1956)

movie - first aired/released 1956-01-01 - 33 min - audience 8.0

Music, Drama, Comedy, Romance

Directed by Donald Monat, Jacques de Lane Lea

Britain's first musical shot in colour and widescreen (a process called Cosmoscope) is a cabaret-style featurette centred on a group of young people in Chelsea lodgings, watched over by a fatherly caretaker. Eight specially written songs are performed by stage stars of the day – most notably Georgia Brown, who later created the role of Nancy in Oliver!