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  • ...tributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] Corporation (United Kingdom)<br>Oxford Films (United States) ...|last1=Drazin|first1=Charles|title=The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s|date=1998|publisher=Andre Deutsch|location=London|isbn=9780233989853|page=2
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  • '''''Quiet Wedding''''' is a 1941 British [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Anthony Asquith]] and starring [[Margaret Lockw It was Lockwood's first film following a series of films with [[Carol Reed]].<ref name="vagg">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vag
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  • ...e=A Boy, A Girl and a Bike (1949)|publisher=}}</ref> The film concerns the romantic escapades and adventures of a [[Yorkshire]] [[cycling club]]. ...ck Holt) are members of a Yorkshire cycling club, the ‘Wakeford Wheelers’. Romantic complications ensue when wealthy David (John McCallum) becomes smitten with
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  • ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804062049/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a9dc1a3|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 August 2017|title=Th ...s, the forceful, coquettish Petronell and the shyer Sibley, have their own romantic entanglements with the young men of the area. Petronell tips her hat at Ric
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  • ...h Jones]], and [[Guy Middleton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b213ade|title=Once upon a Dream (1948)|publisher=}}</ref> I ...ff to bed, saying he is exhausted after his journey. That night, she has a romantic dream about Jackson and as a result of a coincidence of events as she wakes
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  • | studio = George H. Brown Productions (for) [[Two Cities Films]] ...essdate=26 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b70034008|title=The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)|website=BFI}}</r
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  • '''''Helter Skelter''''' is a 1949 British [[w:romantic comedy|romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] and starring [[Carol Marsh]], [[ ...has a fantasy in which she becomes a notorious 17th century courtesan, the romantic interest of both [[Oliver Cromwell]] ([[Bill Fraser]]) and [[Charles II of
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  • ...ust go on" and thrives on the newspaper publicity. Sheila begins to take a romantic interest in Jack, and despite her only being 15 (and three-quarters), she b [[Category:1949 films]]
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  • ...d Cornwall.<ref>{{cite web |title=Miranda |url=https://www.reelstreets.com/films/miranda/ |website=Reel Streets |access-date=2 December 2021}}</ref> [[Category:1948 romantic comedy films]]
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  • ...t to Get Married'''''<ref name="BFI">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b00ec52|title=Marry Me (1949)|website=BFI}}</ref>) is a 194 ...-on-local-scene-the-marrying-kind-with-judy.html|title=The Screen: Two New Films On Local Scene; "The Marrying Kind," With Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray, Has P
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  • | studio = [[Two Cities Films]] '''''Woman Hater''''' is a 1948 British [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]] and st
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  • * Jean Kent and Arthur Askey – "Are You Naturally Romantic?". [[Category:1944 films]]
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  • | studio = [[Two Cities Films]] | distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] (UK)<br />[[Eagle-Lion Films]] (US)
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  • ...ck comedy]], [[Comedy drama]], [[Musicals]], [[Adventure films]], [[Action films]], [[Sex comedies]], [[Western (genre)|Western]] ...rector of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he took up writing, producing and directing for theate
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  • ...aracters|Cato]] in the ''[[The Pink Panther (film series)|Pink Panther]]'' films. He made appearances in many television programmes, including a portrayal o ...n the [[Chinese Communist Revolution|Chinese communist revolution]] in the 1940s. In 1954, he returned to Britain, where a girlfriend "nagged [him] into act
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  • Courtneidge appeared in 12 British films in the 1930s, and one in Hollywood, finding this work to be very lucrative. Having discovered that she seemed more suited to comedy than romantic leads, Courtneidge continued to perform in variety and made her debut in [[
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  • ...oped the Tramp persona and attracted a large fan base. He directed his own films and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the [[Essanay Studios|Essana ...ve the U.S. and settle in Switzerland. He abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include ''[[Monsieur Verdoux]]'' (1947), ''[[Limelight (1952 film)|L
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