• Tell Me Tonight
  {{short description|1932 film}} | released = 31 October 1932
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• Sleepless Nights (1932 film)
  |image = Sleepless Nights (1932 film).jpg |distributor = [[Wardour Films]]
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• A Man of Mayfair
  |released = {{Film date|df=yes|1932|12||}}<!-- {{Film date|df=yes|Year|Month|Day|Location}} --> ...e/4ce2b6afcfd5f|title=BFI &#124; Film & TV Database &#124; MAN OF MAYFAIR (1932)|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|date=16 April 2009|accessdate=10 Sept
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• Jack's the Boy
  ...Vivian Ellis]]<br>[[Jack Beaver]]<br>'''Lyrics:'''<br>Douglas Furber<br>'''Musical director:'''<br>[[Louis Levy]] | released = June 1932
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• Marcel Varnel
  ...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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• Binnie Hale
  ...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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• Flanagan and Allen
  {{Infobox musical artist | genre = [[Comedy music]]
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• John Baxter (director)
  ...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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• Peter Gawthorne
  ...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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• Jack Hulbert
  ...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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• Florence Desmond
  ...e Alice Owen's School]] in [[Islington]]. Her brother, Fred Desmond, was a comedy acrobat from the "Desmond and Marks" double act. ...l career in the [[theatre]], making her first public appearance performing comedy in the style of [[Nellie Wallace]]. She was employed in 1925 by the impresa
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• Tom Walls
  ...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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• Richard Murdoch
  | years_active = 1932–1990 ...st End]] and on tour. He made his first radio broadcast for the [[BBC]] in 1932 and in 1937 and 1938 he featured in early television broadcasts.
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• Desmond Walter-Ellis
  ...[[Sadler's Wells]] and made his first professional appearance in December 1932. He then acted at the Old Vic, [[Regent's Park Open Air Theatre|Regent's Pa ...ntomime as well as straight dramas. In the Australian tour of ''[[Camelot (musical)|Camelot]]'' in 1963–1965 he played King Pellinore. In London in 1966 he
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• Doris Hare
  ...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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• Lupino Lane
  ...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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• George Grossmith Jr.
  ...vue]]s" to the London stage. Born in London, he took his first role on the musical stage at the age of 18 in ''[[Haste to the Wedding]]'' (1892), a [[West End ...Girls of Gottenberg]]'' (1907), ''[[Our Miss Gibbs]]'' (1909), ''[[Peggy (musical)|Peggy]]'' (1911), ''[[The Sunshine Girl]]'' (1912) and ''[[The Girl on the
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• Fred Karno
  ...in order to circumvent stage censorship, Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue. ...: "Fred Karno is not only a genius, he is the man who originated slapstick comedy. We in Hollywood owe much to him."<ref>J. P. Gallagher (1971). "Fred Karno:
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• Ronald Frankau
  ...way to radio and films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4db93a|title=Ronald Frankau|website=BFI}}</ref> ...017|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> Rosemary's son, [[Sam Bain]], became a comedy writer and co-created the Channel 4 sitcom [[Peep Show (British TV series)|
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• Leslie Henson
  ...irector]]. He initially worked in [[silent films]] and [[Edwardian musical comedy]] and became a popular [[music hall]] comedian who enjoyed a long stage car ...ed to the West End, playing in ''[[Kissing Time]]'' (1919) and a series of musical comedies and farces throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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