Alf's Button Afloat
Alf's Button Afloat is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim and Peter Gawthorne.
In the film, the Crazy Gang go to sea, where one of them discovers a button on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp.
The film parodies the 1920 novel "Alf's Button" by W.A. Darlington and its subsequent film adaptations.
The film is 1 hour 29 minutes long and is rated 6.2/10 on IMDb based on 80 users rating.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Clarence Wainwright Murphy
Clarence Wainwright Murphy, is a misidentification of Charles William Murphy( 1870 – 1913), who as C. W. Murphy was a prolific British composer of music hall and musical theatre tunes.
He was born in Manchester on 14 February 1870 and died in Blackpool on 18 or 19 June 1913.
He is perhaps best known for the song" Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" with lyric by Will Letters( 1908).
In 1926," Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" was made into an animated short of the same title directed by Dave Fleischer, and in 1928 into a feature film directed by William Wyler.
The song was also performed in the 1943 film" Hello Frisco, Hello".
With frequent collaborator Dan Lipton( 1873 – 1935) he also wrote" My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl", mentioned by James Joyce in his novel" Ulysses" and also turned into a 1909 short sound film of the same name.
Another song," Little Yellow- bird",( aka" Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird") written with lyricist W. Hargreave, can be seen performed by Scottish comedian Charlie Naughton in the 1938 film" Alf's Button Afloat" and by Angela Lansbury in the 1945 film" The Picture of Dorian Gray" and again by Lansbury in the 1985 episode" Sing a Song of Murder" from her TV series" Murder, She Wrote".
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Alf's Button (1920 film)
Alf's Button is a 1920 British silent comedy film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Leslie Henson, Alma Taylor and Gerald Ames.
It was based on the novel" Alf's Button" by William Darlington.
The film is about a British soldier who discovers a magic coat button which summons a genie to grant his various wishes.
It was remade as a sound film in 1930.
It was shot at Walton Studios.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Alf's Button (1930 film)
Alf's Button is a 1930 British comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino and starring Tubby Edlin, Alf Goddard and Nora Swinburne.
It is an adaptation of the 1920 novel" Alf's Button" by William Aubrey Darlington.
The film features some singing and dancing sequences in an early colour process, which is believed to be Pathécolor.
Jesse E. Hobson
Jesse Edward Hobson( May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955.
Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.
Marcel Varnel
Marcel Varnel (16 October 1892 – 13 July 1947) was a film director.
He was born Marcel Hyacinthe le Bozec in Paris, France.
Varnel started his working life on the Paris stage, soon becoming a director of musical comedies.
In 1925 he moved to New York City working as director in several Broadway operettas, musicals and dramas for the Shubert family.
This was followed by a move to Hollywood where he directed three low budget thrillers.
In 1934, he moved to England and it was as director of British comedies initially working at British International Pictures
, Elstree then in 1936 moving to Gainsborough Pictures where he produced his best films.
Among the performers he worked with were Will Hay, The Crazy Gang, Arthur Askey and George Formby.
He died in a car crash near Rake, West Sussex.

Question: Where did the director of film Alf'S Button Afloat die?
Answer: West Sussex