...[[Kitty McShane]], which forms part of the [[Old Mother Riley]] series of films. The film's plot centres on Old Mother Riley standing for election to the H ...is a film that is sure to please anyone who appreciates classic [[British comedy]]."<ref name="britmovie1939"/>

'''''Climbing High''''' is a 1938 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Carol Reed]] and produced by [[Michael Balcon]] with a ...piercing [[topical humour]] (especially about the advertising business and political activism) that still holds today."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.c

'''Leslie Fuller''' (9 October 1888 – 24 April 1948) was a British comedy film actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/7565 By the 1930s Fuller had become well known as "The rubber-faced comedian", and spent his

...ochondriac and fee-hungry local doctor. Malleson was also a writer on many films, including some of those in which he had small parts, such as ''[[w:Nell Gw ...me="trt" /><ref>[[Andy Croft]], ''Red Letter Days : British Fiction in the 1930s''. London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1990. {{ISBN|9780853157298}} (pg. 205)</ref

...e="Braxton2014" /> along with many actors that would later join him in his comedy writing career including [[Michael Knowles (actor)|Michael Knowles]], [[Col ==Comedy writer==

...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

...[German Ambassador to the United Kingdom|German Embassy in London]] in the 1930s and was a reporter for a German news agency. In 1935, two years after [[Ado ...ate=13 November 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref> He also appeared in propaganda films, debuting in ''[[One of Our Aircraft Is Missing]]'' (1942), in which he was

...en appeared in film, rising from a [[bit part|bit part]] actor in the late 1930s to a member of the main cast; by the time of his death he had appeared in n ...and made his television debut, becoming a reliable bit-part actor in many films, particularly in the [[war film|war film]] genre.

| format = [[Sketch comedy|Sketch comedy]] ...monly contracted to '''''ITMA''''') was a [[BBC|BBC]] [[radio comedy|radio comedy]] programme which ran for twelve series from 1939 to 1949. The shows featur

...with ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978), a 1930s-set drama serial featuring [[Bob Hoskins]] as a sheet music salesman (Hoski ...Britain|Arts Council]], Potter invested £500,000 in the production; [[BBC Films]] provided the rest of the capital. The film was not given a cinema release