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  • | distributor = [[Wardour Films]] | released = May 1933
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  • | image = Falling for You (1933 film).jpg | released = {{Film date|df=y|1933|06|15|London, UK}}
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  • | image = My Lucky Star (1933 film).jpg | released = June 1933
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  • '''''My Wife's Family''''' is a 1941 [[UK|British]] domestic [[comedy film]] directed by [[Walter C. Mycroft]] and starring Charles Clapham, [[Jo ...|url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-07-14 |title=VOI MEITÄ! ANOPPI TULEE (1933) &#124; BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2014-06-26}}</ref> a
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  • | distributor = [[Wardour Films]] '''''The Middle Watch''''' is a 1930 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Norman Walker (director)|Norman Walker]] and starring
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  • | image = The Good Companions (1933 film).jpg | released = {{film date|df=y|1933|02|28|London, England}}
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  • '''''Jack's the Boy''''' is a 1932 British comedy film directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Jack Hulbert]], [[Cicely C ...Perth, Western Australia)|The Daily News]] |location=Perth |date=19 August 1933 |access-date=4 March 2013 |page=19|edition=HOME|via=National Library of Aus
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  • | studio = [[Group 3 Films]] ...e=2014-04-08}}</ref> It was a remake of the film ''[[Orders Is Orders]]'' (1933), itself based on the play ''[[Orders Are Orders (play)|Orders Are Orders]]
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  • ...eenonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17b8221|title=Frank Launder}}</ref> ...in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic [[Will Hay]] comedy ''[[Oh, Mr Porter!]]'' (1937).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.o
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  • ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...ilms. Among the performers he worked with were [[Will Hay]], [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], [[Arthur Askey]] and [[George Formby]].
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  • | studio = New World Films Ltd. | distributor = Regal Films International <small>(U.K.)</small> <br/> [[Embassy Pictures]] <small>(U.S.
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  • '''''The Square Peg''''' is a 1959 British war comedy film directed by [[John Paddy Carstairs]] and starring [[Norman Wisdom]].<r ...but after some further hijinks, including a rendition of the [[Duck Soup (1933 film)#Mirror scene|Marx Brothers' mirror routine from ''Duck Soup'']], Pitk
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  • ...a show called "The Big Crazy Gang" at the London Palladium and on tour in 1933. ...It was natural for them to get together as they shared a similar style of comedy and worked on the same bills at theatres.
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  • ...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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  • .... His name was changed by [[deed poll#Use for changing name|deed poll]] in 1933.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Room|first1=Adrian|title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 1 ...ricket]]-obsessed friend, Charters. The two would go on to appear in other films together, often playing similar characters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.
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  • ...N|078674684X}}</ref> She debuted in 1916 in three productions: the musical comedy ''Follow the Crowd'', followed by the revue ''We’re All In It'', both at ...ilms. On stage during these years, she played Peggy in ''Give Me a Ring'' (1933), Sally in ''Yes, Madam?'' (1934, with Howes, who later starred in [[Yes, M
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  • ...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]]. ...ut. He toured for three years in [[w:Julian Wylie|Julian Wylie]]'s musical comedy companies.<ref name=who/>
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  • ...dy Dick]]'' (1935), but he was a significant supporting performer in Hay's films from 1936 to 1940, and while he starred with Hay during this period he play ...nally intended to train as an architect, but instead he became an actor in films.<ref name=Hay/> Rather like [[Clive Dunn]] and [[Wilfrid Brambell]] later,
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  • ...=BFI}}</ref> Born in Lambeth, south London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the [[silent era]] through to 1949 in the [[sound film|so ...films. Emerging as an established film director in the 1930s, he directed films for [[Gainsborough Pictures]] and [[Ealing Studios]].
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  • ...-449-8 |url-access=registration }}</ref> For his final film, the acclaimed comedy ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' (1988), Crichton was nominated for both the [[w ...[The Girl from Maxim's]]'' (1933), ''[[The Private Life of Henry VIII]]'' (1933), ''[[Sanders of the River]]'' (1935), ''[[Elephant Boy (film)|Elephant Boy
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