• Hold My Hand (film)
  | released = August 1938 ...ite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=Hold+My+Hand+1938+literary+sources+in+film&pg=PA295|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sour
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• Yes, Madam?
  | released = 1938 ...e-date=2009-01-16 |title=BFI &#124; Film & TV Database &#124; YES, MADAM? (1938) |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2009-04-16 |access-date=2012-03-16}}</re
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• Climbing High
  | image = Climbing High 1938 film.jpg | released = {{Film date|1938|11| |UK}}
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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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• 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. ...k'' at the [[London Palladium]], which later became their adopted home. In 1938 they appeared at the Palladium in the hit revue ''[[These Foolish Things (r
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• A Girl Must Live
  '''''A Girl Must Live''''' is a 1939 British romantic comedy film directed by [[Carol Reed]] that stars [[Margaret Lockwood]], [[Renee H ...other lodgers, Gloria and Clytie, that there will be an audition for a new musical that day, at which all three win places in the chorus line. Gloria meanwhil
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• Leo Franklyn
  ...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]]. ...British and American shows. He spent ten years performing in Australia in musical comedies. From the 1940s he appeared regularly in [[w:pantomime|pantomime]
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• Flanagan and Allen
  {{Infobox musical artist | genre = [[Comedy music]]
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• Nice Work If You Can Get It (song)
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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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• Dick Bentley
  ...on [[ABC Radio and Regional Content|ABC Radio]] in the early 1930s and by 1938 had become a fairly prominent personality, notably on [[Wilfrid Thomas]]'s ...the ABC. In 1954, he starred in ''[[And So to Bentley]]'', a sketch-format comedy show for the BBC, co-starring [[Peter Sellers]]. The show only lasted for o
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• Richard Murdoch
  ...He made his first radio broadcast for the [[BBC]] in 1932 and in 1937 and 1938 he featured in early television broadcasts. ...ith the comedian [[Arthur Askey]] in the radio show ''[[Band Waggon]]'' in 1938. Their contrasting styles appealed to the public and they took a version of
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• Benny Lee
  | occupation = {{hlist | Comedy actor | singer}} ...995|access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] comedy actor and singer. He started his career in stage roles, and developed a tel
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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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• 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
  ...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 ...[[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]; ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938) with Flanagan and Allen. He also wrote the [[Will Hay]] comedies ''[[Oh, M
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• Cardew Robinson
  | occupation = Comedy actor == Television, films and theatre ==
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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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• 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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• Arthur Askey
  ...ings for [[His Master's Voice|His Master's Voice]] include "The Bee Song" (1938), a lasting part of his act. From the 1950s, Askey was a prominent televisi ...er role in the writing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/bandwagon.htm |title=Bandwaggon |website=Britishcomedy.org.uk |access-date=
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