A pairing of films starring Gracie Fields - Queen of Hearts (1935) and Look Up and Laugh (1936).
Born in Rochdale, Gracie Fields was a comedienne and singer who charmed English Music Hall audiences with her Northern Lass persona before becoming a top box-office draw at the cinema and Britain’s highest paid actress during the 1930s.
In Queen of Hearts Gracie stars as a lowly seamstress working opposite a theatre who, when returning a coat to the leading man backstage one day, gets mistaken for a rich woman willing to back the show if she has the lead in it.
Look Up and Laugh sees touring variety artist Gracie come to the rescue of her father and his fellow market stall holders when the owner of a neighbouring big store threatens to close the market and build an extension to his own premises. Matters are complicated when Grace’s brother is revealed to be madly in love with the store owner’s daughter.
