• Twenty to One
  ...enty to One''''' was a British musical comedy first performed in 1935. The musical was a farce set around the world of [[horseracing]]. Bill Snibson ([[Lupino ...f Bill Snibson was such a success, that he was revived in 1937 for another musical ''[[Me and My Girl]]''. This proved to be an even greater hit with its well
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• Tell Me Tonight
  ...Albrecht Joseph]]|[[J.O.C. Orton]]<ref>The Exhibitor’s Monthly, 7 December 1935 p12.provided by grand daughter of John Overton Cone Orton aka John Orton ak ...l Me Tonight''''' or '''''Be Mine Tonight''''' is a 1932 British [[musical comedy film]] directed by [[Anatole Litvak]] and starring [[Jan Kiepura]], [[Sonni
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• Brewster's Millions (1935 film)
  | image = Brewster's Millions (1935 film) poster.jpg | released = January 1935 (UK)
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• This'll Make You Whistle
  .../ref> The film was based on the [[This'll Make You Whistle (musical)|stage musical of the same title]] which Buchanan had starred in. The musical was first performed on stage at Southsea in December 1935, before a long run at the [[Palace Theatre, London|Palace Theatre]] and the
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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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• Crazy Gang (comedy group)
  ...It was natural for them to get together as they shared a similar style of comedy and worked on the same bills at theatres. ...rriott]], who was a frequent co-star of Will Hay, often turned up in their films. Eddie Gray, their associate and equally crazy comic, appeared in the later
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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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• 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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• Julian Orchard
  {{Short description|English comedy actor (1930–1979)}} | occupation = Comedy actor
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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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• Dick Henderson
  ...the first in Britain to record &ndash; on the [[ukulele]]. He sang both comedy songs such as "Have You Ever Seen a Straight Banana", and sentimental songs ...ow-lost 1930 film ''[[The Man from Blankley's]]'', and in the 1935 musical comedy film ''[[Things Are Looking Up (film)|Things Are Looking Up]]''. In the la
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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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• 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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• Val Guest
  *{{Marriage|Violet Johnson (known as Pat Watson)|1935|1954|end=div}}<ref name="Hawtree">{{cite news | first=Christopher | last=Ha ...his work for [[w:Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film ind
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• Melvyn Hayes
  {{Short description|English actor (b.1935)}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1935|01|11|df=y}}
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• George Grossmith Jr.
  | death_date = {{death date and age|1935|6|6|1874|5|11|df=y}} ...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
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• Robertson Hare
  ...vision in the late 1960s, as the Archdeacon of St Ogg's in the [[BBC|BBC]] comedy series ''[[All Gas and Gaiters]]''. ...Kaufman in a detective play, ''The Scarlet Band'', at the [[Comedy Theatre|Comedy Theatre]].<ref name=who/> He then toured the provinces for a number of year
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• Thorley Walters
  | yearsactive = 1935–1991 ....uk |access-date=2014-04-14}}</ref> He is probably best remembered for his comedy film roles such as in ''[[Two-Way Stretch]]'' and ''[[Carlton-Browne of the
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