Apr 24th  
Lady Godiva Rides Again*                                       

(GB 1951)

A local girl unexpectedly wins a beauty pageant, but the subsequent road to fame is a bumpy one.
Touching but rather half-baked satire on the glamour business of the 50s (though an interesting snapshot of the time, with the likes of Joan Collins and Ruth Ellis allegedly among the beauty contestants), not as whimsical as Ealing nor as cutting as the later Boulting Brothers comedies, with a plot that rather falls apart half way through and becomes depressing.

Written by: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, Val Valentine.
Producer: Sidney Gilliat.
Director: Frank Launder.
Starring: Pauline Stroud, Stanley Holloway, Dennis Price, Diana Dors, George Cole, Bernadette O'Farrell, John McCallum, Eddie Byrne, Dora Bryan, Kay Kendall, Sidney James.
Photography: Wilkie Cooper.
Music: William Alwyn.

+ uncredited cameos by Googie Withers, Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard

LADY GODIVA RIDES AGAIN (1951). The contestants for Miss Fascination. Pauline Stroud and Diana Dors (instantly recognisable) centre, with fifth from right, Joan Collins, and fourth from left, Ruth Ellis.