Kino Quickies 05 - Say it With Flowers (1934) with Gary Yershon

The fifth film in the Kino Quickies season, screened on May 8th 2022, was Say it With Flowers from 1934.

Directed by John Baxter, it's the simple story of a group of market traders who mount a benefit concert for their sick colleague. The film features performances from three of the biggest music hall stars of the Edwardian era, Charles Coburn, Marie Kendall and Florrie Forde.

Our guest for the Q&A was the Oscar nominated film composer and all round nice chap, Gary Yershon.

Gary talked about some really interesting stuff including a bit about this woman, who appalled by music hall.

There are three musical themes in title sequence to Say it With Flowers - this is one of them....

....and another is "Won't You Buy My Pretty Flowers" which is the song we all joined Gary in singing. If you too would like to have a little warble along to the podcast, you will find the lyrics HERE.

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Our sound engineer for this one was Neva Missirian.

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