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  • ...ite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230551834 |title=FILM NEWS FROM ENGLAND AND AMERICA |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=11,818 | ...Blessings'' (1953). In April 1951 the ''Daily Mail'' listed Shaw on a poll from over 2,000 readers as one of the most popular British female actors in the
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  • ...[[Naunton Wayne]] as two [[cricket]]-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949. ...time in the trenches. Depending on the lighting and camera angle it varied from barely perceptible to prominent.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Guardian |locati
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  • ...hat she "hated" her time in Petersfield, she and the other female evacuees from Battersea would use the local church hall there for acting, dancing and sin ...hy"/> Starting back at RADA in September 1945, Joyce dropped the "Needham" from her name and began using the stage name "Yootha Joyce" saying "it seemed le
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  • ...nrolled at the [[Fay Compton|Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art]] in 1933. From there he took a position in [[repertory theatre]] and made his stage debut ...aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about as a complication of [[cirrhosis]] of the liver. After his death, critics reflected that, for an actor who n
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  • ...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott ...9 July 2012</ref> George left Florence in 1905 and was never seen or heard from again by his family.<ref name="Holloway and Richards, p. 68">Holloway and R
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  • ...industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and e ...imelight]]'' (1952), ''[[A King in New York]]'' (1957), and ''[[A Countess from Hong Kong]]'' (1967).
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