• Fiddlers Three (1944 film)
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• Bees in Paradise
  | released = 20 March 1944 ...and comic [[Marriott Edgar]], who wrote for [[Will Hay]] and [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|the Crazy Gang]] and composed some of [[Stanley Holloway]]'s famous
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• 29 Acacia Avenue
  | music = [[Muir Mathieson]] (musical director) ...tributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] Corporation (United Kingdom)<br>Oxford Films (United States)
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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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• 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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• Benny Lee
  | occupation = {{hlist | Comedy actor | singer}} ...995|access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] comedy actor and singer. He started his career in stage roles, and developed a tel
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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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• 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 ...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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• 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 ...43) and science fiction/ comedy ''[[Time Flies (1944 film)|Time Flies]]'' (1944).
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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 ...rred in the radio series ''[[Much Binding in the Marsh]]'', which ran from 1944 to 1954. Murdoch's last long-running radio programmes were ''[[The Men from
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• Jerry Desmonde
  ...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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• 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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• Tessie O'Shea
  ...elped win her a [[w:Tony Award|Tony Award]] for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.<ref name=Whitcomb>{{cite book|last=Whitcomb|first=Ian|title=Ukulele Heroes ...m]] ''[[As Good Cooks Go]]'', which ran from 1969 to 1970. She appeared in films including ''[[w:London Town (1946 film)|London Town]]'', ''[[w:The Blue Lam
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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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• George Cole (actor)
  ...Flash Harry (St Trinian's)|Flash Harry]] in the early ''[[St Trinian's]]'' films. ...chant Navy (United Kingdom)|Merchant Navy]] but landed a part in a touring musical and chose acting as a career.
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• Arthur Askey
  ...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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• The Americanization of Emily
  ...William%20Bradford%20Huie%20%2B%20d%20day&f=false Life Magazine, 9 October 1944, article by Huie: ''SeaBees – They Build the Roads to Victory''] Linked 2 ...n's hairstyles, dress fashions, makeup and shoes are all strictly 1964 not 1944.<ref>{{Citation|title=The Americanization of Emily (1964) - IMDb|url=http:/
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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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• Mavis Villiers
  ...credited; her first accredited film role was as 'the Girl' in a 1927 short comedy, ''The Bum's Rush'', featuring expat Australian star [[Snub Pollard]]. Foll ...role before her death.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba52e1c84|title=Mavis Villiers|website=BFI}}</ref>
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• Leslie Henson
  ...irector]]. He initially worked in [[silent films]] and [[Edwardian musical comedy]] and became a popular [[music hall]] comedian who enjoyed a long stage car ...ed to the West End, playing in ''[[Kissing Time]]'' (1919) and a series of musical comedies and farces throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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