Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey. The film was based on Vivian Tidmarsh's 1944 West End hit play by the same name. Plot When US Navy airman Commander Laurie Vining takes up his new posting in London with his new wife Gillian he has no idea that his first wife Candy Markham will turn up and threaten his marital bliss by claiming they are still married. Faithful confidant Hank Hanlon continually stirs things up and tries to keep order. Other lives that are changed forever by the intervention include lawyer Frank Betterton. Cast Bonar Colleano as Cmdr. Laurie Vining Diana Dors as Candy Markham David Tomlinson as Frank Betterton Diana Decker as Gillian Vining Sid James as Hank Hanlon Audrey Freeman as Lucy Hubert Woodward as Hicks MacDonald Parke as Adm. Fields Lou Jacobi as Capt. Noakes Production The play debuted in 1944 in London, originally starring Ralph Lynn, and ran for almost three years. Film rights were bought in February 1953 as a vehicle for Diana Dors. The screenplay was by Talbot Rothwell who went on to write 20 Carry On films. Filming took place over four weeks in April