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- | image = Let's Make a Night of It 1937.jpg | released = {{film date|1937|06|28|df=yes}}2 KB (284 words) - 11:03, 14 December 2022
- | starring = {{ubl|[[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]|[[Fred Duprez]]|[[Graham Moffatt]]|[[Enid Stamp Tay | released = 22 April 19373 KB (439 words) - 17:04, 25 February 2023
- ...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 well1 KB (165 words) - 12:28, 23 February 2023
- '''''A Girl Must Live''''' is a 1939 British romantic comedy film directed by [[Carol Reed]] that stars [[Margaret Lockwood]], [[Renee H ...other lodgers, Gloria and Clytie, that there will be an audition for a new musical that day, at which all three win places in the chorus line. Gloria meanwhil7 KB (996 words) - 00:09, 5 February 2023
- {{Short description|1937 song by George and Ira Gershwin}} ...s 1937 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 32 Pt 3 For the Year 1937 |date=1937 |publisher=U.S. Govt. Print. Off. |others=United States Copyright Office |l7 KB (1,020 words) - 23:10, 17 January 2023
- ...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 Cal9 KB (1,412 words) - 13:55, 11 March 2023
- ...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 seve4 KB (532 words) - 12:45, 18 February 2023
- ...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 later7 KB (1,070 words) - 08:07, 7 August 2024
- {{Infobox musical artist | genre = [[Comedy music]]7 KB (959 words) - 22:27, 28 March 2023
- ...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"/>5 KB (665 words) - 16:59, 17 March 2023
- ...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 Pict10 KB (1,511 words) - 15:02, 10 January 2023
- ...of his early career was in [[w:Edwardian musical comedy|Edwardian musical comedy]]; in his later career he was chiefly associated with [[w:farce|farce]]. ...British and American shows. He spent ten years performing in Australia in musical comedies. From the 1940s he appeared regularly in [[w:pantomime|pantomime]8 KB (1,269 words) - 17:37, 3 January 2023
- | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1937|09|05|df=y}} ...k Clement''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer, director and producer. He became known for his writi10 KB (1,539 words) - 23:33, 17 February 2023
- | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1937|01|7|df=y}} ...www.filmreference.com/film/2/Ian-La-Frenais.html Ian La Frenais Biography (1937–)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>10 KB (1,590 words) - 19:46, 10 September 2024
- ...t [[Old Mother Riley]] on stage, radio and screen, with a series of comedy films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. ...music hall|music hall]]. He gained a job with a family troupe called the ''Musical Cliftons'', and later as sidekick to a comedian called Will Pepper.9 KB (1,247 words) - 22:48, 15 March 2023
- ...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 ...and Allen. He also wrote the [[Will Hay]] comedies ''[[Oh, Mr Porter!]]'' (1937) and ''[[Ask a Policeman]]'' (1939). He wrote ''[[Hi Gang! (film)|Hi Gang!16 KB (2,505 words) - 14:22, 24 December 2022
- * {{marriage|Charles Hughesdon<br/>|1937}} ...e Alice Owen's School]] in [[Islington]]. Her brother, Fred Desmond, was a comedy acrobat from the "Desmond and Marks" double act.7 KB (1,025 words) - 11:23, 24 August 2024
- ...on tour. He made his first radio broadcast for the [[BBC]] in 1932 and in 1937 and 1938 he featured in early television broadcasts. ...duated from the chorus to a supporting role in a tour of ''Oh! Letty'', a "musical farce" in which he was praised by [[Neville Cardus]] for "a stretch of dist16 KB (2,452 words) - 12:02, 6 February 2023
- ...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.13 KB (1,828 words) - 07:57, 6 October 2022
- {{Short description|Comedy actor (1915–2000)}} | occupation = Comedy actor12 KB (1,668 words) - 20:57, 8 January 2023