Design for Loving
Appearance
Design for Loving | |
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Directed by | Godfrey Grayson |
Written by | Mark Grantham |
Produced by | John Ingram |
Starring | June Thorburn Pete Murray |
Cinematography | Stephen Dade |
Edited by | John Dunsford |
Music by | Bill Le Sage |
Production company | Danziger Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Corporation (UK) |
Release date | March 1962 (UK) |
Running time | 68 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Design for Loving is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring June Thorburn, Pete Murray and Soraya Rafat.[1] Its plot concerns a beatnik who becomes a top fashion model. It is also known by the alternative title Fashion for Loving.
Plot
With an eye on the youth market, fashion executive Barbara Winters (June Thorburn) hires beatnik Stanford (Pete Murray) as her chief fashion adviser. However, discovering Stanford is in reality Lord Stanford, leads to ensuing comic complications.
Cast
- June Thorburn - Barbara Winters
- Pete Murray - Lord Stanford
- Soraya Rafat - Irene
- James Maxwell - Joe
- June Cunningham - Alice
- Prudence Hyman - Lady Bayliss
- Michael Balfour - Bernie
- Edward Palmer - Graves
- John Bay - Freddie
- Marjie Lawrence - Mrs. Samson
- Katharine Page - Chaperone
- Patsy Smart - Landlady
- Mark Singleton - Karl
- Charles Lamb - Walter
- Humphrey Lestocq - Manager
- Mary Malcolm - Compere
- Angela Douglas - Bernie's Secretary
Critical reception
TV Guide concluded that the film "...fails to produce much excitement, comic or otherwise."[2]
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