Shipyard Sally

Shipyard Sally
Directed byMonty Banks
Written byDon Ettlinger
Gracie Fields
Thomas J. Geraghty
Karl Tunberg
Val Valentine
Produced byRobert Kane
StarringGracie Fields
Sydney Howard
Norma Varden
CinematographyOtto Kanturek
Edited byR. E. Dearing
Alfred Roome
Music byLouis Levy
Production
company
Twentieth Century Productions
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox
Release date
  • 16 October 1939 (1939-10-16) (UK)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£255,057[1]

Shipyard Sally is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard and Norma Varden.[2] The film is notable for the song "Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye", which became a major hit.[3]

  1. ^ Chapman, Llewella. "'The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England". Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. Vol. 19, no. 4. Edinburgh University Press. p. 470-494 at 487.
  2. ^ "Shipyard Sally (1939)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Shipyard Sally (1939) - Monty Banks - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.