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  • ...Ghost Goes West''''' is a 1935 British [[romantic comedy]]/[[fantasy film|fantasy]] film directed by [[René Clair]] and starring [[Robert Donat]], [[Jean Pa This was the first of two films Clair made in England following a deal he made with producer [[Alexander Ko
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  • ...edy]], Murdoch quickly moved on to increasingly prominent roles in musical comedy and [[revue]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]] and on tour. He made his ...solicitor. They had one son and two daughters.<ref name=odnb/> During the 1930s he gained increasingly prominent roles in musicals and [[revue]]s, includin
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  • ...e co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of the British radio comedy programme ''[[The Goon Show]]'', performing a range of roles including the ...n the fight against [[Nazi Germany]], but even then he wrote and performed comedy sketches as part of concerts to entertain troops. After his call-up, but be
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  • ...}}</ref> In 1957, she starred opposite [[Kenneth Williams]] in the musical comedy ''Share My Lettuce'', written by [[Bamber Gascoigne]].<ref>{{cite web |url= ...t his match – that she was extraordinary. He said that anyone who can play comedy that well can also play tragedy and he offered her the likes of Desdemona i
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  • ..., November 2011 (Updated 6 March 2014)</ref> His television dramas mixed [[fantasy]] and [[reality]], the personal and the social, and often used themes and i ...with ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978), a 1930s-set drama serial featuring [[Bob Hoskins]] as a sheet music salesman (Hoski
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