Formby poster flop
A poster for one of George Formby's best-loved films remains unsold after bidders failed to reach its reserve price at London auction this week.
The bill for Turned Out Nice Again had been tipped to go for around 500 at Christie's but it was withdrawn when the bidding didn't go high enough.
It features a caricature of the Wigan-born entertainer plugging the 80-minute film produced by Ealing Studios in 1941 which lifted the nation's spirits in the Second World War.
In the film, George is a salesman at a ladies' underwear factory and, according to one critic, it "begins with a slapstick comedy sequence, highlighting Formby's knockabout credentials."
The film quickly develops into a cleverly constructed and well written character comedy, with George Formby as a more competent, sensible figure than the gormless officer of his previous film, Spare A Copper.
The film was released when George was at the peak of his career and when he was one of Britain's top money-making film stars, earning around 30,000 for each picture.
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