A film from 1938 starring Jessie Matthews and Sonny Hall is to be released on DVD in October by the Rank Organisation.
Sailing Along, a musical set around the love life of the star, used locations at Otterham and Lower Halstow.
The real star was the Thames Sailing Barge, Wiltshire.
Dance Clip from Sailing Along - 1938 with Jessie Matthews.
Pictured below is the front cover of the DVD, a film still featuring Jessie Matthews singing to a group of bargemen with a London background and a still inside the wheel house with Jessie Matthews & Barry MacKay.
You can read more about Sailing Along here at: Screenonline.org
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