Design for Loving

Design for Loving
British quad poster
Directed by	Godfrey Grayson
Produced by	John Ingram
Written by	Mark Grantham
Starring	June Thorburn Pete Murray
Music by	Bill Le Sage
Cinematography	Stephen Dade
Edited by	John Dunsford
Production company	Danziger Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures Corporation (UK)
Release dates	March 1962 (UK)
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Design for Loving is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring June Thorburn, Pete Murray and Soraya Rafat.^[1] Its plot concerns a beatnik who becomes a top fashion model. It is also known by the alternative title Fashion for Loving.

Plot

With an eye on the youth market, fashion executive Barbara Winters (June Thorburn) hires beatnik Stanford (Pete Murray) as her chief fashion adviser. However, discovering Stanford is in reality Lord Stanford, leads to ensuing comic complications.

Cast

June Thorburn - Barbara Winters
Pete Murray - Lord Stanford
Soraya Rafat - Irene
James Maxwell - Joe
June Cunningham - Alice
Prudence Hyman - Lady Bayliss
Michael Balfour - Bernie
Edward Palmer - Graves
John Bay - Freddie
Marjie Lawrence - Mrs. Samson
Katharine Page - Chaperone
Patsy Smart - Landlady
Mark Singleton - Karl
Charles Lamb - Walter
Humphrey Lestocq - Manager
Mary Malcolm - Compere
Angela Douglas - Bernie's Secretary

Critical reception

TV Guide concluded that the film "...fails to produce much excitement, comic or otherwise."^[2]

References

External links

Design for Loving at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Godfrey Grayson

Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)
Doctor Morelle (1949)
The Adventures of P.C. 49 (1949)
Meet Simon Cherry (1949)
What the Butler Saw (1950)
The Lady Craved Excitement (1950)
Room to Let (1950)
Dick Barton at Bay (1950)
To Have and to Hold (1951)
The Fake (1953)
Black Ice (1957)
Innocent Meeting (1958)
Date at Midnight (1959)
Woman's Temptation (1959)
High Jump (1959)
An Honourable Murder (1960)
The Spider's Web (1960)
Escort for Hire (1960)
So Evil, So Young (1961)
The Pursuers (1961)
The Lamp in Assassin Mews (1962)
The Battleaxe (1962)
She Always Gets Their Man (1962)
Design for Loving (1962)
The Durant Affair (1962)

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