
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.

as Sir

as Norman

as Oxenby

as Her Ladyship

as Madge

as Frank Carrington

as Irene

as Violet Manning

as Lydia Gibson

as Geoffrey Thornton

as Mr. Godstone

as Horace Brown

as Benton

as Beryl

as C. Rivers Lane

as Miss White

as Mr. Bottomley

as Bombazine Woman

as Charles

as Evelyn the Airman

as Evelyn's Friend

as Actress on Station

as Arthur

as Electrician

as Stallkeeper

as Barmaid

as Train Guard

as Man at Station (uncredited)