Play It Cool

Year: 1962

Production Country: Great Britain

Directed by Michael Winner
Featuring Billy Fury / Michael Anderson Jr / Dennis Price

Stills (1)

Comedy with music concerning a pop singer and his pals who save society girl from foolish marriage.

Cast & credits

Cast

Billy Universe Billy Fury
Alvin Michael Anderson Jr
Sir Charles Bryant Dennis Price
guest star Helen Shapiro
guest star Bobby Vee
nervous man Richard Wattis
Ann Bryant Anna Palk
Ring-a-Ding Keith Hamshere
Freddy Ray Brooks
Joey Jeremy Bulloch
Larry Grainger Maurice Kaufmann
Skinner Peter Barkworth
train guard Harry Locke
Yvonne Pemberton Felicity Young
air hostess 1 Mercy Haystead
Lotus proprietor Max Bacon
guest artiste Danny Williams
guest artistes Shane Fenton and the Fentones
guest artiste Jimmy Crawford
Guest artistes Lionel Blair and His Dancers
[reporter 1] David Spenser
[reporter 2] Tom Adams
[airport policeman] Weyman Mckay
[airport porter] John Crocker
[Briggs, airport official] Douglas Muir
[male receptionist] Frederick Jaeger
[airline receptionist] Susan Neve
[air hostess 2] Penelope De Rune
[mechanic 1] Roy Skelton
[mechanic 2] Michael Collins
[Rocco's commissioner] David Evans
[Horace, the beatnik man] Monte Landis
[beatnik woman] Marianne Stone
[twist commissioner] Victor Brooks
[Robin, debs escort] Jeremy Lloyd
[Skinner's cab driver] Fred Griffiths
[coffee bar girl 1] Jill Carson
[coffee bar girl 2] Jenny Russell
[coffee bar boy] Karl Lanchbury
[head waiter, Lotus] Ron Hitchin
[cab driver 2] William Marlowe
[Euston porter 1] Russell Waters
[Euston porter 2] Joe Ritchie
[Sydney Norman] Bernie Winters
[taxi driver] Hugh Lloyd

Credits

Direction

Director Michael Winner
Assistant Director Eric Rattray
[Assistant Director (2nd)] Christopher Dryhurst
[Assistant Director (3rd)] Ken Softley
Continuity Splinters Deason

Production

©/Production Company Coronado Productions (England) Limited
Production Company Independent Artists
A Julian Wintle Leslie Parkyn Production Julian Wintle
A Julian Wintle Leslie Parkyn Production Leslie Parkyn
Producer David Deutsch
Associate Producer Denis Holt
Unit Manager Donald Toms
[Unit Accountant] Paul Hitchcock
[Production Secretary] Maureen Hensby
[Producer's Secretary] Josephine Baker
Studio Pinewood Studios

Writing

Original Screenplay Jack Davies

Photography

Director of Photography Reginald Wyer
Camera Operator Gerry Turpin
[Focus Operator] Chic Anstiss
[Clapper Loader] Peter Ewens
[Electrical Supervisor] Harold Cooke
[Chargehand Electrician] Frank Buck
[Electrician] Joe Finn
[Electrician] Charlie Cartwright
[Grip] Mike Beauchamp

Stills

[Stills] Harry Gillard

Editing

Editor Tristam Cones
[Assistant Editor (1st)] John Beaton
[Assistant Editor (2nd)] Michael Clifford

Design

Art Director Lionel Couch
[Set Dresser] Peter Russell
'Twist' Paintings by Leroy Neiman
[Draughtsman] Ted Ambrose
[Property Buyer] Michael McCarthy
[Props] Tommy Davies
[Dressing Props] Eddie Francis
[Construction Manager] Albert Jempson
[Standby Carpenter] W. Donnolly
[Standby Stagehand] H. Dilly
[Standby Rigger] G. Chapple
[Standby Painter] D. Delaney
[Chargehand Standby Prop] Dingle Bell

Costumes

[Wardrobe Master] Jim Donlevy
[Wardrobe Mistress] Laurel Staffel

Make-up

Make-up W.T. Partleton
[Assistant Make-up] Basil Newall
Hairdresser Stella Rivers

Music

Songs, music Norrie Paramor
Songs, music Richard B. Rowe
Songs, music Bernard Jewry
Music Composed and Conducted by Norrie Paramor
Songs, lyrics Norman Newell
Songs, lyrics Richard B. Rowe
Songs, lyrics Ron Fraser
Songs, lyrics Bob Barratt
Songs, lyrics Larry Parnes
Music Associate Harold Shampan

Sound

Sound Recording Dudley Messenger
Sound Recording Gordon K. McCallum
[Sound Camera Operator] Ted Karnon
[Boom Operator] Danny Daniel
[Assistant Boom Operator] Charles Mcfadden
[Sound Maintenance] Austin Partridge
Sound Editor Allan Morrison

Publicity

[Publicist] Brian Doyle
[Publicity Secretary] Julie Leighton-white