Sarah Miller Walters
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Spotlight on George Formby's Get Cracking 1
A Peach of a Playwright I’m going to start my Spotlight on George Formby’s “Get Cracking” by looking at one of the screenwriters. The 1943 Home Guard themed film was based on a play originally written by L du Garde Peach – famous for writing the Ladybird Adventure from History books. Peach also contributed to the screenplay along with Edward Dryhurst and Michael Vaughan. So, you could say that Peach has a significant role at the root of this film. How close the film runs to the original play…
A short story set in the late 1950s about an innocent young actress taken advantage of by her ruthless agent.