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  • | released = {{Film date|df=y|1944|07|31|UK}} ...n}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Erickson|first1=Hal|title=Give Us the Moon (1944)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/93274/Give-Us-the-Moon/overview|a
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  • | distributor = [[Gainsborough Studios]]<br />Ellis Films (US) | released = 6 November 1944 (UK)<br />October 1951 (US)
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  • | released = 20 March 1944 ...January 2009 |title=BFI &#124; Film & TV Database &#124; BEES IN PARADISE (1944) |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=16 April 2009 |access-date=9 January 201
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  • ...ctor 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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  • ...|John Darling]] in ''Peter Pan''.<ref name=screenonline/> He began to make films in his teens.<ref name=britishpictures>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishpic ...and the Huggetts films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f390ab7|title=Jimmy Hanley|website=BFI}}</ref> He later wor
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  • ...e their service in [[w:World War I|World War I]] or [[w:World War II|World War II]]. Charley is looking forward to meeting some French ''mademoiselles'', ...arts to visit the area where he had been involved in heavy fighting during 1944 when British troops had arrived to liberate France. In the local florists,
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  • ...adise]]'' (1944), opposite [[Arthur Askey]]; and ''[[Give Us the Moon]]'' (1944) and ''[[I'll Be Your Sweetheart]]'' (1945), opposite [[Margaret Lockwood]] ...Lilacs in the Spring]]'' (1954).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba93e0162|title=Peter Graves|website=BFI}}</ref> He also appe
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  • | studio = DJ Films ...sitcom ''[[Dad's Army]]''. It is directed by [[Oliver Parker]] and set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. [[Catherine Zeta-Jones
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  • ...12-07-11|title=Edward Black|work=BFI}}</ref> He also produced such classic films as ''[[The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938). Black has been called "one of the unsu ...used to come off as successful as his others."<ref>Round Table on British Films Cornelius, Henry; Dickinson, Thorold; Havelock-Allan, Anthony; John, Rosamu
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  • ...a production company known as Ealing Films, and later headed British Lion Films. He served as chairman of the [[British Film Institute]] production board t ...as described in his obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' as a "pioneer of British films" who "had courage, energy and flair for showmanship".<ref name=":1">{{Cite
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  • ...William%20Bradford%20Huie%20%2B%20d%20day&f=false Life Magazine, 9 October 1944, article by Huie: ''SeaBees – They Build the Roads to Victory''] Linked 2 ...War]], the film has since been praised as a "[[Avant-garde|vanguard]] anti-war film."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1184%7C0/Th
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  • ...rience enabled him to write ''First Tide''.<ref>London, Skeffington & Son, 1944: ASIN: B00MJ94BJQ</ref> He was with the [[Invasion of Normandy|Allied Invasion force]] of 1944 and took part in the [[Normandy landings]], sending back reports to the BB
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  • ...ion]] and [[theatre]] [[actor]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba63e7437|title=Wallas Eaton|website=BFI}}</ref><ref name=the ...ventually becoming a [[major|major]] in charge of a [[Searchlight#In World War II|searchlight battery]].<ref name="Gifford"/>
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  • ...s began production, he enjoyed increasing renown from [[World War II|World War II]] onwards as one of the British cinema's most famous crotchety, and some ...d [[Barry Morse|Barry Morse]], and was later cast in the extremely popular films ''[[Carry On Admiral]], [[Doctor at Large (film)|Doctor at Large]]'' and ''
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  • ...ter who appeared in stage roles between 1932 and 1967 and more than thirty films between 1940 and 1970. He wrote [[West End theatre|West End]] plays, songs ...in ''Members Only''. His last three appearances before the [[Second World War]] were as Tony Fox-Collier in '' Spring Meeting'' (Ambassadors, May 1938),
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  • ...dies ''[[The Army Game]]'' (1957–59), ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (1969–1970), and films including ''[[Carry On Spying]]'' and ''[[Percy's Progress]]''. He occasio ...an RAF anthem during the war and was later recorded by [[Vera Lynn]]. In 1944, the Squadronaires were commissioned to provide music for the film ''[[Star
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  • ...Robb Wilton]], 1936), and ''[[Once in a Million]]'' (1936), and made short films for [[British Pathé]].<ref>[https://www.britishpathe.com/video/haver-lee ...o broadcast together in the show ''[[Happidrome (radio)|Happidrome]]'', in 1944.<ref name=haverleebbc/>
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  • ...Wilbur]] and his band for [[Radio Luxembourg]]. During the [[Second World War]], he made regular broadcasts for the services, and by 1941 was well known ...evision. His first film appearance was in ''[[Candlelight in Algeria]]'' (1944), followed by appearances in ''[[Third Time Lucky (1949 film)|Third Time Lu
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  • ...rce]] and played a cheerful [[cockney]] character with the same job in the films ''[[Angels One Five]]'' (1952),<ref name=flight /> and ''[[Conflict of Wing ....<ref name=Scotsman/> He is also noted for having narrated [[Bob Godfrey]] Films' ''[[Great (1975 film)|Great: Isambard Kingdom Brunel]]'' (1975), the first
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  • | years_active = 1944&ndash;1971 ...rtraying pompous authority figures in comedies including each of the seven films in the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series. He also co-starred with
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