Fong Yim-fun worked with writer-director Chiang Wai-kwong on about 35 films. Many of them romantic comedies, a Chiang specialty. In All the Love Heaven Allows, Fong partners with Chow Kwun-ling to play popular radio singers, pursued by a couple of young workers posing as rich kids, whose bosses, lusting after the girls, reveal the workers' true identities...Fong puts on full display her musical talents, and then some. Singing the bouncy tune ‘Blowing Kisses Everywhere', she bounces around in radiant beauty wearing a western gown; crooning a love song to her man (played by Cheung Wood-yau), she is sweet, gentle and dreamy. The film offers also loads of laughs, furnished by a roster of comedic characters. Funny man Tang Kei-chen, as one of the young workers, shows off his acting prowess playing several characters. Veteran To Sam-ku, as a despicable mum who makes money off her daughter, is at once loathsome and amusing, even a bit lovable when she starts romancing a man, played by Yee Chau-shui, another master comedian. On top of these, the film goes on location in several scenes, providing precious records of the urban prosperity and bucolic rurality of 1950s Hong Kong.

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