• Princess Charming (film)
  | released = {{film date|1934|4|25|df=y}} ...rming''''', also known as '''''Alexandra''''', is a 1934 British [[musical comedy film]] directed by [[Maurice Elvey]] and starring [[Evelyn Laye]], [[Henry
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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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• 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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• Binnie Hale
  ...an English actress, singer and dancer. She was one of the most successful musical theatre stars in London in the 1920s and 1930s, able to sing leading roles ...h and American Film Press (1952)</ref> The marriage ended in divorce about 1934.
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• Flanagan and Allen
  {{Infobox musical artist | genre = [[Comedy music]]
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• Dilys Laye
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Millicent Martin
  | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1934|06|08|df=y}} ...ny Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical|Best Featured Actress in a Musical]]. Other television roles include her recurring role as [[Minor characters
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• Florence Desmond
  ...e Alice Owen's School]] in [[Islington]]. Her brother, Fred Desmond, was a comedy acrobat from the "Desmond and Marks" double act. ...l career in the [[theatre]], making her first public appearance performing comedy in the style of [[Nellie Wallace]]. She was employed in 1925 by the impresa
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• Richard Murdoch
  ...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 ...duated from the chorus to a supporting role in a tour of ''Oh! Letty'', a "musical farce" in which he was praised by [[Neville Cardus]] for "a stretch of dist
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• Lupino Lane
  ...music hall]] and film performances. Increasingly celebrated for his silent comedy short subjects, he is best known in the United Kingdom for playing Bill Sni ...et Blythe were both in the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of the musical ''[[Afgar|Afgar]]'', at the Central Theatre, in 1920–21, and he appeared
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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 For a time, around 1934, he was the London correspondent for ''[[w:The Hollywood Reporter|The Holly
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• Robertson Hare
  ...vision in the late 1960s, as the Archdeacon of St Ogg's in the [[BBC|BBC]] comedy series ''[[All Gas and Gaiters]]''. ...Kaufman in a detective play, ''The Scarlet Band'', at the [[Comedy Theatre|Comedy Theatre]].<ref name=who/> He then toured the provinces for a number of year
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• Jerry Desmonde
  ...tion.asp?ID=10767 |archive-date=17 March 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> By 1934, he had married Peggy Duncan and they toured as a [[double act]] called ''P ...tps://web.archive.org/web/20070404075445/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/musical/filmography/001.html |archive-date=4 April 2007 }}</ref> an infamous flop,
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• Arthur Lucan
  ...t [[Old Mother Riley]] on stage, radio and screen, with a series of comedy films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. ...music hall|music hall]]. He gained a job with a family troupe called the ''Musical Cliftons'', and later as sidekick to a comedian called Will Pepper.
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• George Grossmith Jr.
  ...vue]]s" to the London stage. Born in London, he took his first role on the musical stage at the age of 18 in ''[[Haste to the Wedding]]'' (1892), a [[West End ...Girls of Gottenberg]]'' (1907), ''[[Our Miss Gibbs]]'' (1909), ''[[Peggy (musical)|Peggy]]'' (1911), ''[[The Sunshine Girl]]'' (1912) and ''[[The Girl on the
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• Bill Kerr
  ...er the [[Second World War]], where he developed a career as a performer in comedy, especially gaining notice in the radio version of ''[[Hancock's Half Hour] ...e Silence of Dean Maitland (1934 film)|''The Silence of Dean Maitland'']] (1934), where he displays striking presence as a blind child.<ref name="Naglazas"
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