An English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches ... Read allAn English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches and romance. -- SimonJackAn English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches and romance. -- SimonJack
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- Wedding Guest
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- Fashion Editor
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- Flower Shop Assistant
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- Ballet Fitter
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- Assistant
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- TriviaThis film received a landmark color television presentation in Philadelphia, Saturday 6 October 1956, on WFIL (Channel 6), as Ford Film Playhouse's promotional introduction to the new line of 1957 Fords; at this time color TV was still in its infancy, usually limited to special presentations, most often on the National Broadcasting Company's affiliated stations, of which WFIL was not the local representative. Vintage feature films, which may have been original filmed in Technicolor, even comparatively recent ones like this one, which was only seven years old at the time, were not considered worthy of this special treatment, with added costs passed along to the sponsors, so were normally only shown in B&W. In this case, since the film was of British origin, there was not the problem of all the automobiles being of noticeable vintage, since British automotive styles were less familiar to American audiences, and more difficult to date. However, the years had not been kind to the so-called "New Look" women's fashions of 1948-1949 so prominently displayed, and which by 1956 had long since become the "Old Look."
- GoofsWhen Janet tells Eileen that Mr. Keats and Mr. Shelley are in the office with Michael, Eileen asks who they are. Yet, she saw a telegram just the day before from Keats and Shelley to D'Arcy about their buying Michael's dress shop for a trifle.
- Quotes
Sir Henry Hazelrigg: ...and this fellow actually came to the Viceroy's party wearing suede shoes.
D'Arcy Davenport: Good grief.
Sir Henry Hazelrigg: Imagine turning up to ride an elephant wearing suede shoes.
D'Arcy Davenport: Revolting. He was asked to leave of course?
Sir Henry Hazelrigg: Of course!
- Crazy creditsOpening credits: MAYFAIR a District in the Heart of London MAYFAIR FOUNDED in 1750 by Thomas Howard ! MAYFAIR CONFOUNDED in 1920 by Michael Arlen !! MAYFAIR DUMBFOUNDED in 1948 by Sir Stafford Cripps !!!
- ConnectionsFeatured in McVicar (1980)
Maytime In Mayfair finds Wilding a charming but broke aristocrat (apparently Wilding specialized in those roles) who finds he's an inherited a posh dress shop which caters to the aristocracy of which he's one of the poorer members till recently. First instinct is to sell the place, but after meeting Anna Neagle the store manager who runs the places and does some of the designs. Soon enough Wilding has designs on her and that plays into him trying to make a go of the business.
Some nice sequences every bit as good as what was done on this side of the pond with the music, dance, and fashion sequences. Neagle and Wilding have more British charm than you'll see this side of David Niven.
Wilding's rival for the business and Neagle's affections is Peter Graves who is a real snake in the grass, not above a little espionage to steal Neagle's designs. In that he's aided and abetted by Wilding's friend Nicholas Phipps who gets riotously drunk and spills the beans without knowing it.
If you like your British cinema escapist and entertaining than Maytime In Mayfair is for you.
- bkoganbing
- Sep 23, 2018
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1