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A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
Cast
Eve Ferret
Big Jill
Joseph McKenna
Fabulous Hoplite
Robbie Coltrane
Mario
Chua Kah Joo
Dancer
Zoot Money
Chez Nobody Barman (as G.B. (Zoot) Money)
Sandie Shaw
Baby Boom's Mother
Peter-Hugo Daly
Vern (as Peter Hugo-Daly)
Anita Morris
Dido Lament
Paul Rhys
Dean Swift
Ronald Fraser
Amberley Drove
Irene Handl
Mrs Larkin
David Bowie
Vendice Partners
Mandy Rice-Davies
Flora, Colin's Mum
Steven Berkoff
The Fanatic
Sade
Athene Duncannon (as Sade Adu)
Bruce Payne
Flikker
Colin Jeavons
Pamphleteer
Slim Gaillard
Party Singer
Eddie O'Connell
Colin, Photographer / Narrator
Graham Fletcher-Cook
Wizard
Edward Tudor-Pole
Ed the Ted (as Tenpole Tudor)
Gary Beadle
Johnny Wonder
Sylvia Syms
Cynthia Eve
Patsy Kensit
Suzette
Julian Firth
The Misery Kid
Johnny Shannon
Saltzman
Carmen Ejogo
Carmen
Bruno Tonioli
Maltese Lodger
James Fox
Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen
Tony Hippolyte
Mr. Cool
Jess Conrad
Cappuccino Man
Eric Sykes
Arcade Attendant (uncredited)
Ray Davies
Arthur, Colin's Dad
Alan Freeman
Call-Me-Cobber
Lionel Blair
Harry Charms