Pauline Stroud the star of Lady Godiva Rides Again had a respectable career. But
a lot of very familiar folks are down the cast list of this film
In Lady Godiva Strikes Again, Stroud a working class girl from the midlands who
on a lark enters a beauty contest and wins. She gets to ride as Lady Godiva did
through the streets of Coventry, but this could also mean a career in the British
cinema.
Her father Stanley Holloway playing a role as dad that Eugene Pallette would
have done in America is real skeptical about this. So's her working class boyfriend George Cole, nice guy but a bit of a lout. No reason she shouldn't
reach for the stars.
Dennis Price is the nominal star of this film, but he's got a limited amount of
screen time. He plays a supercilious screen star, a whole lot like the part he
did in Kind Hearts And Coronets. An arranged studio date with Stroud turns
out to be a disaster all around with the paparazzi getting a most indelicate
picture of him.
Down the cast list though you will find British beauties Diana Dors and Joan
Collins and Kay Kendall as contestants, Sidney James as a casting director and
Alastair Sim as a milk drinking (ulcers) studio head. Even Trevor Howard who
was a reigning star of the UK cinema has an unbilled walk on.
It all does work out in the end and Stroud's a wiser girl for it. Lady Godiva never had a ride like this though.
