Fully restored Old Mother Riley collection - including Bridget's Night Out and the previously lost film, Old Mother Riley (1937).
"Arthur Lucan was a comedian of genius." - Rachael Low
Includes:
Old Mother Riley (1937)
Old Mother Riley In Paris (1938)
Old Mother Riley, MP (1939)
Old Mother Riley's New Venture (1949)
Old Mother Riley,...
During the 1930s and 40s, Arthur Lucan and his wife Kitty McShane were among the highest-paid and most admired variety artistes in Britain. They packed cinemas throughout the land and made a series of zany films with Arthur as the belligerent washerwoman Old Mother Riley, and Kitty as her flighty...
In Old Mother Riley's New Venture, she finds herself promoted straight from kitchen dishwasher to the head of the hotel. So it's goodbye Ration Row and hello swanky Penthouse living for Old Mother Riley and daughter Kitty.
In Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure, the humble washerwoman sets off to the...
One of the most bizarre and popular British creations of the 1930s and 1940s, scatty and excitable washerwoman Old Mother Riley was created and played by Arthur Lucan in drag, while Lucan's real-life wife, Kitty McShane, played her daughter, Kitty. Their double act topped the bill in the Variety Halls...
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