Our Miss Fred

Our Miss Fred is a 1972 British comedy film starring Danny La Rue, set during World War II.

As the headmistress loudly declares that she loathes female impersonators and would gleefully turn them over to the Germans, Fred maintains his disguise.

The English girls have a downed RAF airman, Squadron Leader Smallpiece hidden in a shed; Fred reveals his true identity to him.

In the final scene Fred, back in drag, is entertaining a group of Germans, singing "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball", though not to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March.

[7] LaRue later wrote in his memoirs, "Before finally agreeing to appear in the movie, I must have turned down at least twenty-five other offers because they were almost all stories about female impersonations, which wasn’t for me.

[14] Ned Sherrin, who directed a short, The Cobblers which was released in support of the film, said Our Miss Fred "turned out to be a big disaster".

[15] In "The Spinning image", Graeme Clark called the film, "a goodnatured comedy which, while you can see why La Rue's prospects in cinema might have been limited, also proved he was no dead loss in front of the camera either.

"[16] In the Radio Times, David McGillivray wrote, "Danny La Rue, Britain's most popular female impersonator during the 1970s, seems terribly constricted in his one major film, an old-fashioned wartime comedy written by distinguished playwright Hugh Leonard.

"[17] Psychotic Cinema wrote, "this is a fun movie with plenty of sexual innuendo jokes and a rousing rendition of the popular song Hitler Has Only Got One Ball.