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  • ...enty to One''''' was a British musical comedy first performed in 1935. The musical was a farce set around the world of [[horseracing]]. Bill Snibson ([[Lupino ...f Bill Snibson was such a success, that he was revived in 1937 for another musical ''[[Me and My Girl]]''. This proved to be an even greater hit with its well
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  • ...Albrecht Joseph]]|[[J.O.C. Orton]]<ref>The Exhibitor’s Monthly, 7 December 1935 p12.provided by grand daughter of John Overton Cone Orton aka John Orton ak ...l Me Tonight''''' or '''''Be Mine Tonight''''' is a 1932 British [[musical comedy film]] directed by [[Anatole Litvak]] and starring [[Jan Kiepura]], [[Sonni
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  • | image = Brewster's Millions (1935 film) poster.jpg | released = January 1935 (UK)
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  • | released = {{Film date|1935}} ...ooking-Up_1935|website=britmovie.co.uk|publisher=Britmovie Home of British Films|access-date=1 September 2015}}</ref><ref>Cook, 1997, p. 188</ref> It was ma
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  • .../ref> The film was based on the [[This'll Make You Whistle (musical)|stage musical of the same title]] which Buchanan had starred in. The musical was first performed on stage at Southsea in December 1935, before a long run at the [[Palace Theatre, London|Palace Theatre]] and the
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  • ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...l 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 seve
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  • ...It was natural for them to get together as they shared a similar style of comedy and worked on the same bills at theatres. ...rriott]], who was a frequent co-star of Will Hay, often turned up in their films. Eddie Gray, their associate and equally crazy comic, appeared in the later
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  • ...an English actress, singer and dancer. She was one of the most successful musical theatre stars in London in the 1920s and 1930s, able to sing leading roles ...ned [[St. Martin's Theatre]]. After this, she played in several revues and musical comedies, including ''150 Pound Revue'' (1917), Charlotte in ''The Kiss Cal
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  • ...the Dole]]'' (1941), and was the producer-director for the musical-comedy films of [[Flanagan and Allen]] during [[World War II]]. ...oduction company with his friend [[John Barter]]. He also acted in several films produced by [[Lance Comfort]].<ref name="google1"/>
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  • ...West End theatre|West End]] in [[Noël Coward]]'s show ''[[Words and Music (musical)|Words and Music]]'', alongside [[John Mills]]. In 1936, she made her [[Bro ...o Laine]], who was standing in for [[Bertice Reading]]. In 1982, when this musical was revived by [[John Dexter]] at [[Chichester Festival Theatre]], Doris Ha
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  • ...h 1962) was an Anglo-Irish actor, probably best known for his roles in the films of [[Will Hay]] and other popular British comedians of the 1930s and 1940s. ...of Albany Pope, receiving good notices, in the hit musical ''[[w:The Boy (musical)|The Boy]]'' in 1917.<ref>Findon, B.W. (ed.) "''The Boy''", ''The Play Pict
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  • {{Short description|English comedy actor (1930–1979)}} | occupation = Comedy actor
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  • ...music hall]] and film performances. Increasingly celebrated for his silent comedy short subjects, he is best known in the United Kingdom for playing Bill Sni ...et Blythe were both in the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of the musical ''[[Afgar|Afgar]]'', at the Central Theatre, in 1920–21, and he appeared
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  • ...the first in Britain to record &ndash; on the [[ukulele]]. He sang both comedy songs such as "Have You Ever Seen a Straight Banana", and sentimental songs ...ow-lost 1930 film ''[[The Man from Blankley's]]'', and in the 1935 musical comedy film ''[[Things Are Looking Up (film)|Things Are Looking Up]]''. In the la
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  • ...ritish actor, director, screenwriter and singer, specializing primarily in comedy productions, and often working alongside his wife (Dame) [[Cicely Courtneid ...ts|Cambridge Footlights]]. He was one of the earliest famous alumni of the comedy club.
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  • ...years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in [[Edwardian musical comedy|musical comedy]], touring the British provinces, [[North America]] and [[Australia]] and i ...e specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
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  • *{{Marriage|Violet Johnson (known as Pat Watson)|1935|1954|end=div}}<ref name="Hawtree">{{cite news | first=Christopher | last=Ha ...his work for [[w:Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film ind
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  • | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1935|01|11|df=y}} ...[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'', for appearing in the [[Cliff Richard]] musical films ''[[The Young Ones (1961 film)|The Young Ones]]'', ''[[Summer Holiday (1963
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  • * {{marriage|[[Tom Campbell Black]]|1935|1936|reason=d}} ...e Alice Owen's School]] in [[Islington]]. Her brother, Fred Desmond, was a comedy acrobat from the "Desmond and Marks" double act.
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  • | occupation = [[Actor|Comedy Actor]], [[Entertainer]] ...(born '''David Kodeish''', 25 March 1916 – 3 February 1998) was a British comedy actor and entertainer.
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