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After The Ball

1957, Movie, NR, 89 mins

After The Ball: Review

Vesta Tilley was, perhaps, the most famous male impersonator on the British vaudeville stage; her act may have inspired the motion picture VICTOR/VICTORIA, 1982. In this musical biography covering 52 years of Tilley's life (1868-1920), Pat Kirkwood, as Tilley, does what she can with an ordinary script about a most extraordinary woman, while Laurence Harvey takes on the role of her manager-husband. Kirkwood puts zest into the rousing music-hall numbers that made Tilley an end... read more leave a comment