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The Midshipmaid is a film of genre Comedy directed by Albert de Courville with Jessie Matthews
The Midshipmaid (1932)
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Add to a movie listThe Midshipmaid is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Jessie Matthews, Frederick Kerr, Basil Sydney and Nigel Bruce. It is a comedy with musical interludes in which a pompous economy expert Sir Percy Newbiggin (Fred Kerr) visits the Naval Fleet in Malta to see what cuts can be made in their expenditure. The officers all fall over themselves to woo his beautiful daughter Celia (Jessie Matthews), who accompanies him: she becomes engaged to the son of the First Sea Lord and her father decides to leave economics to the Navy.
Actors
Jessie Matthews
(Celia Newbiggin)
Frederick Kerr
(Sir Percy Newbiggin)
Basil Sydney
(Cmdr. Fosberry)
Nigel Bruce
(Maj. Spink)
Claud Allister
(Chinley)
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