Carry On Nurse

Carry On Nurse is the second Carry On film, released in 1959. Of the regular team, it featured Joan Sims (in her Carry On film debut), Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey, with Hattie Jacques and Leslie Phillips. The film was written by Norman Hudis based on the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. It was the top grossing film of 1959 in the UK and - with an audience of 10.4 million - had the highest cinema viewing of any of the "Carry On" films. Perhaps surprisingly, it was also highly successful in the US, where it was reported that it played at some cinemas for three years.



Nurse
W hen Ted York (Terence Longdon) is admitted to hospital with appendicitis, he doen't know what he's letting himself in for. The nurses are naughty and nice - especially saucy staff nurse Dorothy Denton (Shirley Eaton) - and Matron (Hattie Jacques) is menacing. The patients meanwhile, get tired of waiting and take matters into their own hands, while Matron finds a novel use for daffodil!

Cast

 * Kenneth Connor as Bernie Bishop
 * Kenneth Williams as Oliver Reckitt
 * Shirley Eaton as Dorothy Denton
 * Charles Hawtrey as Mr Hinton
 * Joan Sims as Stella Dawson
 * Hattie Jacques as Matron
 * Terence Longdon as Ted York
 * Bill Owen as Percy Hickson
 * Irene Handl as Mrs Madge Hickson
 * Leslie Phillips as Jack Bell
 * Joan Hickson as Sister
 * Jill Ireland as Jill Thompson
 * Wilfred Hyde-White as The Colonel
 * Harry Locke as Mick the Orderly
 * Rosalind Knight as Student Nurse Nightingale
 * Cyril Chamberlain as Bert Able
 * June Whitfield as Meg
 * Michael Medwin as Ginger
 * Norman Rossington as Norm
 * Susan Shaw as Mrs Jane Bishop
 * Bernard Bresslaw (uncredited) his feet were used as stand-ins for Terence Longdon's, when the latter's character was supposedly standing in a bath.