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Spanish Eyes (film)

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Spanish Eyes
Directed byG. B. Samuelson
StarringAnthony Ireland
Dennis Noble
Donald Calthrop
CinematographyBasil Emmott
Production
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Release date
  • 1930 (1930)
Running time
71 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Spanish Eyes is a 1930 British musical film directed by G. B. Samuelson and starring Anthony Ireland, Donald Calthrop and Dennis Noble.[1] It had a gypsy theme and was made at Twickenham Studios in West London. The film was made at night, to allow other more important productions to use the studio in the daytime - a common practice at Twickenham during the era.

The film became known for the death of Nita Foy, a West End chorus girl who was working on the film, in what became known as "the Film Studio Horror".[2] Foy was invited to Donald Calthrop's dressing room for a drink where her costume caught fire.[3] Although the inquest exonerated him Calthrop's career never entirely recovered from the incident.[4]

Cast

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Bibliography

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  • Sweet, Matthew. Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema. Faber and Faber, 2005.

References

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  1. ^ BFI.org[dead link]
  2. ^ Sweet p.94
  3. ^ Sweet p.94-96
  4. ^ Sweet p.96-100
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