Film Preview – Bognor Regis Observer – Saturday, 31 January 1948

PAVILION, SELSEY. As its title indicates, "SUDDENLY IT'S SPRING" is a high-spirited offering, happily combining the best talents of a film-making team whose metier over many years has been comedy-drama on the romantic side. The picture opens Monday at the Pavilion Theatre. The combination is headed by Paulette Goddard and Fred MacMurray, Director Mitchell Leisen and Producer Claude Binyon. Co-stars Goddard and MacMurray appear together for a third time. It is MacMurray's eighth picture and Miss Goddard's fourth for Leisen. Undoubtedly the most outstanding feature of all of Charles Dickens' works is that his characters are so well known that we think of them as living, though they have never actually existed. Ealing's screen version of "NICHOLAS NICKLEBY", gives the opportunity of renewing your acquaintance with both the lovable and repugnant characters of this book. Sir Cedric Hardwicke heads the cast as the uncle of all villainous uncles, Ralph Nickleby, and other characters are played by Stanley Holloway, Alfred Drayton, Cyril Fletcher, Bernard Miles, Derek Bond, Sally Ann Howes, Fay Compton, Sybil Thorndike, Mary Merrall and Athene Seyler. Opens on Thursday.