Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets and falls in love with Susan (Palmer), an attractive young woman who is unaware of his fame.
Acting
Lilli Palmer's luminous debut before Hollywood came calling
Score
Arthur Tracy's actual tenor—The Street Singer's real voice
Director
Sinclair Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Arthur Tracy was an actual radio sensation known as 'The Street Singer'—this was essentially his fictionalized origin story, making it one of cinema's earliest celebrity self-mythologizing vehicles.
Lilli Palmer filmed this just before fleeing Nazi Germany; her next stop was Hollywood stardom, making this her bittersweet British farewell. The gypsy camp scenes were shot in rural Buckinghamshire with actual Romani consultants.
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