"Actor: Hazel Ascot"

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  John Baxter directed this 1937 British production.A story set in the East End of London where the local hospital is faced with closure unless funds are raised.The local fishmongers daughter (Hazel Ascot) a British Shirley Temple, Hoofer puts together a variety show to raise the money. Enid Stamp-Taylor also stars with The Dagenham Girl Pipers, The Scots Kilties Band, The Band of The H.M. Royal Marines and many more.Hazel Ascot was a champion child tap-dancer of the 1930's. Her first film appearance was in this 1937 musical film Talking Feet. This film, made at Sound City (later Shepperton Studios), was produced and directed by John Baxter.It was while John Baxter was looking for rehearsal rooms for a proposed film to be titled Music Hall that he chanced upon Hazel, whose father Duggie Ascot ran a dance academy in the Charing Cross Road.