Who played the title character in the 1937 comedy film Oh, Mr Porter!?
Oh, Mr Porter! Oh, Mr Porter! Oh, Mr Porter! is a 1937 British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel. While not Hay's commercially most successful (although it grossed £500,000 at the box office – equal to over £30,000,000 in modern-day money), it is probably his best-known film to modern audiences. It is widely acclaimed as the best of Hay's work, and a classic of its genre. The film had its first public showing in November 1937 and went on general release on 3 January 1938. The plot of "Oh, Mr Porter" was loosely
Oh! Mr Porter Oh! Mr Porter "Oh! Mr Porter" is an old British music hall song about a girl "going too far". It was famously part of the repertoires of the artistes Norah Blaney and It was written in 1892 by George Le Brunn and his brother Thomas, and taken on an extended provincial tour that same year by Marie Lloyd. The lyrics include this chorus: Birmingham is the second city of England. Crewe is a town better known as a railway junction than as a destination. The song is alluded to in the 1922 novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce. The title of