Director: Herbert Wilcox
Release Date: April 1948
On 15 February 1948 the Sunday Pictorial noted that ‘The ghost of Sir Henry Irving must have shuddered this week when Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding spent the entire day at the Lyceum jitterbugging for the final sequence of “Spring in Park Lane.” Herbert Wilcox, not normally at a loss in show business matters, found himself out of his depth when all the hop-cats started cutting no mean rug.’ In 1945 the theatre had been coverted to a Mecca Dancing venue. Wilcox makes no reference to this, or any other location shots concerning this film, in his 1967 autobiography.
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The view from the forecourt of The Dorchester Hotel across Park Lane into Hyde Park.
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The camera pans to the right to reveal the fountain in the forecourt of the The Dorchester Hotel.
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Subsequent shots of Park Lane are obscured by the opening credits until this shot of the Poets' Fountain, Park Lane, at the junction of Hamilton Place and Old Park Lane. There were three statues in this group, Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton with this shot appearing to show Shakespeare and Chaucer. The fountain was removed in 1948, and apparently destroyed, apart from the top section, depicting Fame, which was rescued by Osbert Sitwell.
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Dancers at the Lyceum, Wellington Street.
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Michael Wilding and Anna Neagle dancing at the Lyceum.
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Following a shot of a lion in his cage the camera pans to show Wilding meeting G.H. Mulcaster at the London Zoo.