Gert and Daisy Clean Up **½ (1942, Elsie Waters, Doris Waters, Iris Vandeleur, Joss Ambler) – Classic Movie Review 12,641

Elsie and Doris Waters try to run a restaurant and tackle a black marketeer (Joss Ambler) who is controlling the World War Two canned fruit business, in the cheerful 1942 British comedy film Gert and Daisy Clean Up.

Director Maclean Rogers’s cheerful 1942 British wartime comedy film Gert and Daisy Clean Up is the quick sequel to Gert and Daisy’s Weekend (1941), in which the cockney chars Gert and Daisy (Elsie and Doris Waters) try to run a restaurant and tackle a black marketeer (Joss Ambler) who is controlling the World War Two canned fruit business.

Gert and Daisy Clean Up is good-hearted, cheery and spirited Forties fun with the deservedly popular Waters Sisters giving tirelessly eager-to-please performances. Co-star Iris Vandeleur returns from the first film as Ma Butler.

The cast are Elsie Waters as Gert, Doris Waters as Daisy, Iris Vandeleur as Ma Butler, Elizabeth Hunt as Hettie, Toni Edgar-Bruce as Mrs. Wilberforce, Joss Ambler as Mr Perry, Ralph Michael as Jack Gregory, Uriel Porter as Snow White, Harry Herbert as Old Cheerful, Angela Glynne as Girl, Arthur Hambling as PC Albert Green, Johnnie Schofield as Policeman on Night Duty, Douglas Stewart as Mayor, and David Trickett as Boy.

The two Waters Sisters appeared in three films together. Gert and Daisy’s Weekend (1941), Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942), and It’s in the Bag (1944). They were all produced by Butcher’s Film Service.

London East End comic actresses and singers Florence Elsie Waters (19 August 1893–14 June 1990) and her sister Doris Ethel Waters (20 December 1899–18 August 1978) performed as a highly successful double act in British music hall and variety. They were the sisters of Jack Warner, who was born Horace John Waters.

Iris Vandeleur (1884–1969).

Iris Vandeleur (1884–1969) was a renowned British stage and film actress.

Gert and Daisy Clean Up is directed by Maclean Rogers, runs 85 minutes, is made by Butcher’s Film Service, is distributed by Butcher’s Film Service, is written by Kathleen Butler and H F Maltby, with additional dialogue by Elsie Waters, Doris Waters and Harry Gibbs, is shot by Jack Parker and Stephen Dade, is produced by F W Baker, is scored by Percival Mackey, and designed by Andrew Mazzei.

It was shot at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

Release date: August 1942.

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