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Second Best Bed
Directed byTom Walls
Written byBen Travers
Produced byMax Schach
Starring
  • Tom Walls
  • Jane Baxter
  • Veronica Rose
CinematographyJack E. Cox
Edited byLynn Harrison
Music byVan Phillips
Production
company
Capitol Film Corporation
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • January 1938 (1938-01)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Second Best Bed is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Jane Baxter and Veronica Rose.[1] The screenplay is by Ben Travers, based on an earlier story of his. Walls and Travers had worked together on the Aldwych farces. The screenplay concerns a newly married couple who soon run into domestic difficulties when the wife refuses to obey her husband's every order.[2]

It was an independent production made at Shepperton Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Murton.

  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Lanier, Douglas (2006). "Film Spin-offs and Citations: On the Virtues of Illegitimacy". In Burt, Richard (ed.). Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Vol. One. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780313331169.

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