Film
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
United Kingdom- Age rating
- PG
- Director
- Sidney Gilliat
- Year
- 1953
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
Top cast
Robert Morley
William S. Gilbert
Maurice Evans
Arthur Sullivan
Eileen Herlie
Helen D'Oyly Carte
Peter Finch
Richard D'Oyly Carte
Martyn Green
George Grossmith
Dinah Sheridan
Grace Marston
Isabel Dean
Mrs. Gilbert
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Mr. Marston
Muriel Aked
Queen Victoria
Michael Ripper
Louis
Bernadette O'Farrell
Jessie Bond
Frank Williams
Singer Rehearsing
Directed by
Sidney Gilliat
Written by
Leslie Bailey, Sidney Gilliat
