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  • | studio = Byron Films '''''Up for the Cup''''' is a 1950 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Jack Raymond]] and starring [[Albert Modley]], [[Mae B
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  • | studio = [[Romulus Films]] ...y Hanley]] and [[Janette Scott]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aac9e87|title=The Galloping Major (1951)}}</ref> It also fe
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  • '''''Just My Luck''''' is a 1957 British [[sports film|sports]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Paddy Carstairs]] and starring [[Norman Wisdom]] ...My Luck'' is not a piece of comedic genius, nor even the best of Wisdom's films, but it's an amiable, well-constructed piece that recalls a gentler age".<r
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  • ...publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2014-06-24}}</ref> However, Rank Films insisted it was not a sequel.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.ne * [[John Horsley (actor)|John Horsley]] as Sports Organiser
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  • ...istress''''' is a low budget black and white 1950 British [[w:comedy film|comedy film]], starring [[Arthur Lucan]] and [[Kitty McShane]]. The 13th film in t ...w role with vigour, whether it's taking P.E. lessons, brazenly cheating on Sports Day, or confronting the haunted school piano.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ww
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  • ...Corporation|Associated British Picture Corporation]] (ABPC)<br />Guardsman Films<ref name="Brooke" /> '''''School for Scoundrels''''' is a 1960 British [[comedy film|comedy film]] directed by [[Robert Hamer|Robert Hamer]] (and an uncredited [[Cyril
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  • ...lar at [[Eton College]] where he also excelled at sports. He worked in the 1950s for the [[New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation]], before returning to Brita ...or4=Robert Ross |title=The Goodies Rule OK: The Official Story of the Cult Comedy Collective|date=2006|publisher=Carlton Books Ltd|isbn=9781844421527}}</ref>
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  • '''''Genevieve''''' is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by [[Henry Cornelius]] and written by [[William ...ian">{{harvnb|MacFarlane|1997|p=538}}</ref> Sheridan was offered two other films around the same time (''Grand National Night'' and ''Street Corner'') and a
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  • ...ries was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films. ...f girls who had been murdered with pitchforks or succumbed to violent team sports, sometimes with vultures circling; girls drank, gambled and smoked. It is r
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  • ...1960s when he appeared with [[Hattie Jacques]] in several popular [[BBC]] comedy television series. ...r both Fraser and [[Frankie Howerd]] and soon found himself in demand as a comedy writer. Forming a partnership with [[Sid Colin]], he worked on the [[BBC]]
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  • ...(1944) and ''[[Bitter Springs (film)|Bitter Springs]]'' (1950). During the 1950s, Trinder became a television star, notably as the original host for ''[[Ton ...approached by Will Murray who recruited him for his Casey's Court juvenile comedy show. Trinder made his first appearance with the company on 5 June 1921 in
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  • ...career in the theatre but achieved his highest profile for his television comedy roles starring as Rupert Rigsby in the ITV series ''[[Rising Damp]]'' from ...d then tore off. It was the perfect preparation for rehearsing [[situation comedy]] on television at the rate of one episode a week."<ref>Tanitch, p. 25</ref
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  • ...sh actress, known for her roles in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]] and for playing [[w:Peggy Mitchell|Peggy Mitchell]] in the [[w:BBC One|BB Between 1964 and 1974, she appeared in nine ''Carry On'' films, including ''[[Carry On Spying]]'' (1964), ''[[Carry On Doctor]]'' (1967),
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  • ...star of cinema and [[music hall]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba14f3df1|title=Gracie Fields|website=Bfi.org.uk}}</ref><ref> ...in the United States (when she was paid a record fee of £200,000 for four films). Regardless, she never enjoyed performing without a live audience, and fou
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  • ...lishment]] comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. ...nce]]. Following the success of the show, the duo appeared together in the films ''[[The Wrong Box]]'' (1966) and ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'' (1
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