G. Formby

[rich]

fwiw

here's a great clip of Peter Sellers doing a good George Formy bit (When
I'm Cleaning Windows)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA_FLKHPR88

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:12 AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone recently posted a clip of George Formby playing the ukulele here (I
> think; I can't find it). It appears that Netflix has flooded the
> streamwaves with old classics (or my account has indeed discovered what I
> like to watch) and last night served up "Let George Do It" (also known as
> "To
> Hell With Hitler <
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032699/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11>")
> from 1940. *(After the start of World War II, a ukulele player is mistaken
> for a secret agent and becomes involved in a spy operation to defeat Nazi
> agents in Norway. **Starring: George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry
> Marsh). *
>
> It was great fun and I think very much captured the zanier side that makes
> GR such a wonderful romp through an otherwise horrific theater of war.
>
> A-and that led me to this: ukulelia: The Pynchon/Formby Conspiracy Plot
> Thickens
> <
> http://www.ukulelia.com/2006/11/pynchonformby-conspiracy-plot-thickens.html
> >
>
> Which is .... food for thought.
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