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  • | image = "Old Mother Riley Overseas" (1943).jpg | studio = [[British National Films]]
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  • | studio = Aldwych Films | released = 7 June 1943
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  • | image = "Old Mother Riley Detective" (1943).jpg | studio = [[British National Films]]
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  • | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1943|6|14}} ...ew=cast |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-01-15 |title=Miss London Ltd. (1943) | BFI |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2015-07-02 |accessdate=2015-1
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  • | image = It's That Man Again 1943 film lobby card.jpg ...}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Non-Stop Revue |work=The Times |date=10 February 1943 |page=6}}</ref>
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  • ...'The Old Woman who Lives in a Shoe'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Vintage British Comedy|url=http://www.vintagebritishcomedy.co.uk/#/old-mother-riley-theatre/454792 ...Previous to Old Mother Riley, drag was a mixture of singing acts and short comedy sketches in music halls across the UK.
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  • | caption = Korris in ''[[Happidrome (film)|Happidrome]]'' (1943) ...e (film)|1943 film version]]. He also appeared in several [[Frank Randle]] films.<ref>Richards p.275</ref>
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  • ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...ilms. Among the performers he worked with were [[Will Hay]], [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], [[Arthur Askey]] and [[George Formby]].
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  • | image = They Met in the Dark (1943).jpg | studio =Excelsior Films
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  • ...eenonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17b8221|title=Frank Launder}}</ref> ...in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic [[Will Hay]] comedy ''[[Oh, Mr Porter!]]'' (1937).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.o
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  • '''''Give Us the Moon''''' is a 1944 British [[w:comedy film|comedy film]] directed and written by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[Vic Oliver]], [ Made in 1943-44, the film is set in a future peacetime Britain, after the end of [[World
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  • ...id Green''' and '''Dick Hills''', were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile during the 1960s. ...ar School]] in south-east London. They were both school captains, Hills in 1943 and Green in 1945. Richard returned to the school as a teacher of English,
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  • ...whom she appeared in a series of ''[[Old Mother Riley]]'' stage shows and films from the 1930s to the 1950s. McShane appeared in 14 of the 15 'Old Mother Riley' films. Lucan and McShane's marriage was difficult, possibly due to the rumors of
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  • ...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=' ...Sheep of Whitehall'') is a 1942 British [[black-and-white]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[war film]], [[film director|directed]] by [[Will Hay]] and [[Basil Dear
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  • * {{marriage |Florence Baker |1943 |<!--unknown-->|1953 |end=div}} ...Army Game]]''. He also worked in radio comedy and appeared in a couple of films.
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  • ...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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  • .... He directed films with comedians such as [[Will Hay]], the [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|Crazy Gang]] and [[Arthur Askey]] and several of the [[Gainsborough Crabtree did some films for [[Michael Powell]], ''[[Lazybones (1935 film)|Lazybones]]'' (1935) and
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  • ...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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  • ...=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]].
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  • | distributor = [[Gainsborough Studios]]<br />Ellis Films (US) '''''Two Thousand Women''''' is a 1944 British comedy-drama [[war film]] about a German [[internment camp]] in [[Occupied France]
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