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Here Come the Huggetts

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477:, directed by Annakin. "I had to delay my dreams and ideas for ‘great films’, and churn out the Huggett series, because Sydney needed them," wrote Annakin later. "I owed him a debt and had to earn cash as quickly as possible to pay off the mortgage." There would be three Hugget films in all. Annakin added, "The Huggett years were not really such a bind. Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison were a joy to work with. Jack would always come in with a new joke, and amuse us with his Maurice Chevalier imitations. Kathleen seemed to adore me and performed, marvellously and amusingly, everything I asked of her. Dinah Sheridan, Jane Hilton, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark and Diana Dors were a great team and fun to work with as well. However, the challenge was no longer there." 31: 319:), arrives for a not-very-welcome visit and causes problems at home and at Joe's workplace when Ethel persuades Joe to get her a job there. Eldest daughter Jane must choose between her fiancé who has been away in the forces and a new local admirer. Meanwhile, the family is planning to go to London to see the 320: 314:
Factory worker Joe Huggett has a first-time telephone installed at home, for work purposes, but his daughters quickly find a lot more use for it. Diana, a flighty cousin of Ethel's (played by a 16-year-old
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Ken Annakin had directed three films for Sydney Box, then head of Gainsborough Pictures. He was ambitious to do other work but Box offered him
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Sonia Dresdel opens the large Tory Rally Date: Friday, June 18, 1948 Publication: Essex Newsman (Chelmsford, England) Issue: 4325 page 2
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Film reviewer Stephen Vagg described the film as a breakthrough role for Diana Dors, who played Ma Huggett's niece.
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as their young daughters (all with the same first names as the actresses portraying them) and
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HERE COME THE HUGGETTS Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 16, Iss. 181, (Jan 1, 1949): 2.
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head the cast as factory worker Joe Huggett and his wife Ethel, with
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English family. All three films in the series were directed by
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Filming took place in June 1948. The working title was
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Index


Ken Annakin
Muriel Box
Sydney Box
Peter Rogers
Mabel Constanduros
Betty E. Box
Jack Warner
Kathleen Harrison
Jane Hylton
Susan Shaw
Petula Clark
Reginald H. Wyer
Gordon Hales
Antony Hopkins
Gainsborough Pictures
General Film Distributors
comedy film
Huggetts series
working class
Ken Annakin
Gainsborough Pictures
Jack Warner
Kathleen Harrison
Petula Clark
Jane Hylton
Susan Shaw
Amy Veness
Diana Dors
Holiday Camp

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