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  • | director = [[Anthony Asquith]] ...de Grunwald]] based on the play ''[[Quiet Wedding (play)|Quiet Wedding]]'' by [[Esther McCracken]]. The film was remade in 1958 as ''[[Happy Is the Bride
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  • | director = [[Anthony Asquith]] | editing = [[Anthony Harvey]]
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  • ...land) was a British [[cinematographer]] and [[film director]]. He directed films with comedians such as [[Will Hay]], the [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|Crazy Crabtree did some films for [[Michael Powell]], ''[[Lazybones (1935 film)|Lazybones]]'' (1935) and
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  • | director = [[Anthony Asquith]] ...-Mayer]]. The film was written by [[Terence Rattigan]], with a music score by [[Miklós Rózsa]].
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  • ...ucer&f=false ''Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48'' By Robert Murphy p34]</ref> In 1946 Mason called Black "the one good productio ...ble on British Films Cornelius, Henry; Dickinson, Thorold; Havelock-Allan, Anthony; John, Rosamund; Launder, Frank; et al. Sight and Sound; London Vol. 19, Is
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  • ...was an English actress.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f1dcd04|title=Rosalind Knight}}</ref> Her career spanned 70 ...al family, she was introduced to theatre at an early age. She was inspired by a visit to the bombed-out [[Old Vic Theatre]] in 1949 with her father to se
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  • ...-02-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ycba.yale.edu/programs/programs-films.asp |title= Yale Center for British Art |access-date=9 February 2007 }}</re ...stache) pockets a few beans ("Coffee for the Breakfast Table") but is seen by a foreman. He is next seen before a fat Caucasian [[magistrate]] who slobbe
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  • *{{marriage|Anne Josephine|1977|<!--Year omitted when marriage ends by death of article subject-->}}<ref name=odnb/> ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which
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  • | caption = Calvert photographed by [[Allan Warren|Allan Warren]] in 1974 ...time she drew what looked like the short straw, playing the 'good girl' in films that revelled in the exploits of her wicked opposite number, and it says mu
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  • ...2005)<ref name="dnb"/> was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. He excelled on camera as an appealing B ...ilm and Television Arts]] and was named a [[Disney Legends|Disney Legend]] by [[The Walt Disney Company]].
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  • | partner(s) = [[w:Anthony Forwood|Anthony Forwood]] (1949–1988; Forwood's death) ...4) for the [[Rank Organisation]], he later acted in [[Art film|art-house]] films. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six no
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  • ...major. (Travers later acted in the film ''[[Bhowani Junction]]'', written by Masters.) While deep behind enemy lines, he contracted [[malaria]] and volu ...Douglas Fairbanks Presents]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8784435e|title=The Heel (1953)|website=BFI}}</ref>
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  • ...Marple]] in a series of four [[George Pollock (director)|George Pollock]] films. She was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire|Order of ...es.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040307/ai_n12751110/pg_3 |title=A life in films: Murder she hid |newspaper=The Independent on Sunday |first=Matthew |last=S
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  • ...o encouraged him to audition for the company, which was headed at the time by [[Laurence Olivier]].<ref name="NYT" /> Baker did so and was offered a cont ...ay ''[[The Millionairess (play)|The Millionairess]]''. Letts was impressed by Baker upon meeting him, and then, after seeing his performance in ''The Gol
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  • ...e]] and [[w:black comedy|black humour]] were major features of many of his films, and his performances had a strong influence on a number of later comedians Sellers was two weeks old when he was carried on stage by [[Dick Henderson]], the headline act at the [[w:Kings Theatre, Southsea|Kin
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