• Laugh It Off (1940 film)
  | studio = [[British National Films]] | released = {{Film date|1940|03|9|UK|df=yes}}
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• Under Your Hat
  | image = Under Your Hat (1940).jpg | based_on = musical play ''Under Your Hat'' by [[Arthur Macrae]]
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• Let George Do It!
  | image = Let George Do It! (1940).jpg | released = {{film date|df=y|1940|07|12|UK}}<ref name=Premiere/>
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• O-Kay for Sound
  | starring = {{ubl|[[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]|[[Fred Duprez]]|[[Graham Moffatt]]|[[Enid Stamp Tay ...ttps://www.allmovie.com/movie/okay-for-sound-v104552|title=Okay for Sound (1940) - Marcel Varnel &#124; Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Relate
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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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• Band Waggon (film)
  | image = "Band_Waggon"_(1940).jpg | released = 23 March 1940 (UK)
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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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• Fiddlers Three (1944 film)
  | studio = [[Ealing Films]] ...is a 1944 British black-and-white musical comedy. It includes a number of musical sections, mainly focussing on replacing the word "home" with "[[Rome]]". Th
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• Crazy Gang (comedy group)
  ...It was natural for them to get together as they shared a similar style of comedy and worked on the same bills at theatres. ...rriott]], who was a frequent co-star of Will Hay, often turned up in their films. Eddie Gray, their associate and equally crazy comic, appeared in the later
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• Flanagan and Allen
  {{Infobox musical artist | genre = [[Comedy music]]
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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 ...ned [[St. Martin's Theatre]]. After this, she played in several revues and musical comedies, including ''150 Pound Revue'' (1917), Charlotte in ''The Kiss Cal
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• Ted Kavanagh
  ...adio scriptwriter and producer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bacf61e28|title=Ted Kavanagh|website=2.bfi.org.uk|access-date ...That Man Again (film)|It's That Man Again]]'' (1943) and science fiction/ comedy ''[[Time Flies (1944 film)|Time Flies]]'' (1944).
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• Black Knight (Monty Python)
  ...e.org/details/HisGirlFriday-1940|title=Internet Archive: His Girl Friday - 1940}}</ref> ...ge, according to Eric Idle. [[Penn & Teller]] created the illusion for the musical.<ref>Interview with Eric Idle in [[HUMO]] 3691, May 2011</ref>
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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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• 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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• Lupino Lane
  | years_active = 1896–1940 ...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
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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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• Robert Dorning
  ...n to have performed in at least 77 television and film productions between 1940 and 1988. ...hotos|website=AllMovie}}</ref> During the 1930s he had a brief career as a musical comedian in theatre, before choosing acting as his profession.
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• Arthur Askey
  ...cluding ''[[Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt|Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt]]'' (1940) and ''[[The Ghost Train (1941 film)|The Ghost Train]]'' (1941). His [[Nove ...er role in the writing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/bandwagon.htm |title=Bandwaggon |website=Britishcomedy.org.uk |access-date=
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• Charles Victor
  ...with his brother in an automobile agency before going into English musical comedy. In 1929, he joined the [[Birmingham Repertory Theatre]], which was headed ...ly. For example, in 1957 he played the lead role, with top billing, in the comedy ''[[There's Always a Thursday]]'', whilst in the same year he had a bit par
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