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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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  • | studio = Aldwych Films | released = 7 June 1943
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  • | image = It's That Man Again 1943 film lobby card.jpg | music = [[Hans May]] (original music)<br>[[Louis Levy]] (musical direction)
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  • ...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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  • | image = They Met in the Dark (1943).jpg | studio =Excelsior Films
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  • {{Infobox musical artist | genre = [[Comedy music]]
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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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  • ...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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  • {{short description|Welsh actress (1943–2022)}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1943|04|16|df=y}}
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • {{short description|British actor (1943–2014)}} | birth_date = {{Birth date|1943|12|19|df=y}}
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  • | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1943|11|12}} ...e]] and [[Sean Connery]], respectively. She also had roles in high profile films such as ''[[The Italian Job]]'' (1969), ''[[The Wild Geese]]'' (1978) and
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 ...n]]'' (1936); ''[[O-Kay for Sound]]'' (1937) for Varnel with [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]; ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938) with Flanagan a
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  • ...Northern Echo }}</ref> He built a career as a [[song and dance]] man in [[musical theatre]] and later toured parts of the United States in 1927-1928 with [[B ...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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  • ...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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  • ...starred in several [[Gainsborough Pictures|Gainsborough Pictures]] comedy films during the [[Second World War|Second World War]] including ''[[Charley's (B ...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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