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Where's Charley? is a 1952 British musical comedy film directed by David Butler. It starred Ray Bolger, Allyn Ann McLerie and Robert Shackleton. It is an adaptation of the musical Where's Charley?, which was in turn based on the 1892 play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas.
Where's Charley?: Directed by David Butler. With Ray Bolger, Allyn Ann McLerie, Robert Shackleton, Horace Cooper. From the popular Broadway show, a musical adaptation Brandon Thomas's 1890's farce about an Oxford undergraduate posing as a classmate's aunt from Brazil--"where the nuts come from."
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- Comedy, Musical
- David Butler
- 1952-10-24
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Where's Charley? is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by George Abbott. The story was based on the 1892 play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1948 and was revived on Broadway and in the West End. Ray Bolger starred, and sang the popular song "Once In Love With Amy".
In 1892, at Oxford University's Commemoration Day, roommates Jack Chesney and Charley Wykeham invite their girl friends, Amy Spettigue and Kitty Verdun, to their rooms for lunch, as Charley's rich aunt from Brazil, Doña Lucia d'Alvadorez, is expected to arrive by train and can act as chaperone.
- David Butler, Phil Quinn
- Ray Bolger
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As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up. David Butler. Director. John Monks Jr. Screenplay.
