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- | released = {{film date|1934|4|25|df=y}} '''''Princess Charming''''', also known as '''''Alexandra''''', is a 1934 British [[musical comedy film]] directed by [[Maurice Elvey]] and starring3 KB (357 words) - 19:25, 6 August 2024
- | distributor = [[Wardour Films]] | released = {{film date|df=yes|1934}}3 KB (418 words) - 08:54, 3 February 2023
- | image = Those Were the Days (1934 film) DVD boxart.jpg | released = April 19343 KB (480 words) - 20:20, 16 February 2023
- | distributor = [[Wardour Films]] ...layed an uncredited role in the film, later became a famous foil to Hay in films later on alongside [[Graham Moffatt]], it was during the film of Dandy Dick2 KB (307 words) - 00:07, 9 February 2023
- ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...n moving in 1936 to [[Gainsborough Pictures]] – where he produced his best films. Among the performers he worked with were [[Will Hay]], [[Crazy Gang (comed4 KB (532 words) - 12:45, 18 February 2023
- ...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"/>5 KB (665 words) - 16:59, 17 March 2023
- | first_date = 1934 '''Old Mother Riley''' is a fictional character portrayed from about 1934 to 1954 by [[Arthur Lucan]] and from 1954 to the 1980s by [[Roy Rolland]] a6 KB (875 words) - 08:01, 28 August 2024
- ...=BFI}}</ref> Born in Lambeth, south London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the [[silent era]] through to 1949 in the [[sound film|so ...films. Emerging as an established film director in the 1930s, he directed films for [[Gainsborough Pictures]] and [[Ealing Studios]].4 KB (598 words) - 12:20, 20 February 2023
- ...of light-hearted subject matter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13473bc|title=John Paddy Carstairs|website=BFI}}</ref> He w ...tairs directed many British comedies including many of [[Norman Wisdom]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/590042/|title=6 KB (836 words) - 11:48, 7 February 2023
- ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310022732/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a55be4c/|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2016|title=' ...Form&docId=CS134429228&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=New Films in London - Regal|work=The Times|date=12 January 1942|page=8}}</ref></block7 KB (1,098 words) - 10:41, 21 July 2024
- ...rty years including many of the [[Aldwych Farces]] films, and [[Will Hay]] films such as ''[[Boys Will Be Boys (1935 film)|Boys Will Be Boys]]''. ...of his career he edited the [[Carry On (film series)|Carry On]] series of films alongside the director, [[Gerald Thomas]]. He retired in 1975 after editing5 KB (710 words) - 10:00, 19 April 2023
- ...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. ...ies, taking in such films as ''[[w:The Iron Duke (film)|The Iron Duke]]'' (1934), ''[[w:Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'' (1939), ''[[w10 KB (1,511 words) - 15:02, 10 January 2023
- ...h and American Film Press (1952)</ref> The marriage ended in divorce about 1934. ..., she played Peggy in ''Give Me a Ring'' (1933), Sally in ''Yes, Madam?'' (1934, with Howes, who later starred in [[Yes, Madam?|the film version]]), Anne i9 KB (1,412 words) - 13:55, 11 March 2023
- ...g many featuring [[Will Hay]], and some of director [[Carol Reed]]'s early films . * ''[[Wild Boy (film)|Wild Boy]]'' (1934)2 KB (311 words) - 23:47, 5 February 2023
- ...in 1974, and also an editor for ''[[Sheba, Baby]]'' in 1975. Three of his films were also books he wrote or co-wrote: ''[[Monte Carlo or Bust!]]'', ''[[Pap ===Films===6 KB (867 words) - 11:38, 7 February 2023
- ...edies. This was the start of his film career and he went on make around 26 films between 1930 and 1945, many of them "[[quota quickies]]". He leased the old With the outbreak of the [[Second World War]], fewer films were made, and Fuller's style of comedy was beginning to date. In 1945 he m8 KB (1,174 words) - 15:07, 10 January 2023
- ...ll p.297</ref> During the 1930s and 1940s he worked on a number of British films. * ''[[Music in the Air (film)|Music in the Air]]'' (1934)2 KB (293 words) - 12:26, 20 February 2023
- ...upporting roles, often characters with a supercilious demeanour, in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969. ...name=screenonline/> He appeared less often on television, but many of his films have remained popular and are often shown.13 KB (1,870 words) - 23:53, 18 February 2023
- ...|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 wor8 KB (1,117 words) - 23:46, 2 February 2023
- | studio = [[British National Films]] ...a mother-daughter melodrama akin to [[Madame X]] and [[Imitation of Life (1934 film)|Imitation of Life]], with Mother Riley sacrificing her happiness so h6 KB (834 words) - 23:32, 8 February 2023