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Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Directed by	Maclean Rogers
Written by	Kathleen Butler ; H. F. Maltby ; Elsie Waters ; Doris Waters ; Harry Gibbs
Produced by	F.W. Baker
Starring	Elsie Waters ; Doris Waters ; Iris Vandeleur
Cinematography	Jack Parker ; Stephen Dade
Edited by	Charles Knott
Music by	Percival Mackey
Production; company	Butcher's Film Service
Distributed by	Butcher's Film Service
Release date	August 1942;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Gert and Daisy Clean Up is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Elsie Waters, Doris Waters and Iris Vandeleur.^[1]^[2] It was written by Kathleen Butler and H. F. Maltby, with additional dialogue by Elsie and Doris Waters and Harry Gibbs.

Plot

Gert and Daisy are working in a restaurant but are sacked when the mayor is served yellow soap instead of cheese. They subsequently expose the black-marketing activities of local grocer Mr Perry.

Cast

Elsie Waters as Gert
Doris Waters as Daisy
Iris Vandeleur as Ma Butler
Elizabeth Hunt as Hettie
Toni Edgar-Bruce as Mrs. Wilberforce
Joss Ambler as Mr. Perry
Ralph Michael as Jack Gregory
Uriel Porter as Snow White
Harry Herbert as Old Cheerful
Angela Glynne as girl
Arthur Hambling as PC Albert Green
Johnnie Schofield as policeman on night duty
Douglas Stewart as mayor
David Trickett as boy

Production

The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei. It was shot at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A good rollicking farce into which a very topical message has been adroitly sandwiched. Elsie and Doris Waters give a characteristically buoyant performance as Gert and Daisy and they are supported by a cast who are at the same time very amusing and most naturally human. The film is efficiently directed and produced and the inclusion of several boisterous songs from Gert and Daisy and a negro spiritual, sung in a truly Robesonesque fashion by Uriel Porter, adds to its general appeal."^[3]

Picture Show wrote: "Good, clean fun is provided by the latest adventures of Gert and Daisy which provide a comical commentary on war-time domestic life ... Elsie and Doris Waters are the life and soul of the film, and there is no lack of comedy situations and.typical repartee, and one or two catchy songs."^[4]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Rumbustuous farce with ebullient performances from the stars."^[5]

References

^ "Gert and Daisy Clean Up". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
^ Murphy, Robert (1992). Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48. Routledge. p. 174. ISBN 978-0415076845.
^ "Gert and Daisy Clean Up". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 9 (97): 69. 1 January 1942 – via ProQuest.
^ "Gert and Daisy Clean Up". Picture Show. 46 (1194): 15. 26 September 1942 – via ProQuest.
^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 211. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.