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'Here Come the Huggetts' is a 1948 British comedy film, the first of the Huggetts series, about a working class English family. All three films in the series were directed by Ken Annakin and released by Gainsborough Pictures.HERE COME THE HUGGETTS

Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 16, Iss. 181, (Jan 1, 1949): 2.


Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison head the cast as factory worker Joe Huggett and his wife Ethel, with Petula Clark, Jane Hylton and Susan Shaw as their young daughters (all with the same first names as the actresses portraying them) and Amy Veness as their opinionated grandmother. Diana Dors had an early role.

Joe and Ethel had been introduced a year earlier in the film 'Holiday Camp' and there would be two sequels, 'Vote for Huggett' and 'The Huggetts Abroad' (both 1949).

Plot



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 Diana Dors), 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 fianc who has been away in the forces and a new local admirer. Meanwhile, the family is planning to go to London to see the royal wedding, and Grandma Huggett joins them in camping out overnight near Buckingham Palace.

Clark, who began her career as a child vocalist on BBC Radio, sings the song "Walking Backwards".

Cast



* Jack Warner as Joe Huggett

* Kathleen Harrison as Ethel Huggett

* Jane Hylton as Jane Huggett

* Susan Shaw as Susan Huggett

* Petula Clark as Pet Huggett

* Jimmy Hanley as Jimmy Gardner

* David Tomlinson as Harold Hinchley

* Diana Dors as Diana Hopkins

* Peter Hammond as Peter Hawtrey

* John Blythe as Gowan

* Amy Veness as Grandma Huggett

* Clive Morton as Mr. Campbell

* Maurice Denham as 1st Engineer

* Doris Hare as Mrs. Fisher

* Esma Cannon as Youth Leader

* Alison Leggatt as Miss Perks

* Dandy Nichols as Aunt Edie

* Hal Osmond as 2nd Engineer

* Peter Scott as Office Boy

* Keith Shepherd as Vicar

* Edmundo Ros as Himself (as Edmundo Ros and His Rhumba Band)

Production



Filming took place in June 1948. The working title was 'Wedding Bells'.Sonia Dresdel opens the large Tory Rally

Date: Friday, June 18, 1948

Publication: Essex Newsman (Chelmsford, England) Issue: 4325 page 2


Film reviewer Stephen Vagg described the film as a breakthrough role for Diana Dors, who played Ma Huggett's niece.

References




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