• Twenty to One
  '''''Twenty to One''''' was a British musical comedy first performed in 1935. The musical was a farce set around * Shafer, Stephen C. ''British popular films, 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance''. Routledge, 1997.
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• Yes, Madam?
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• Binnie Hale
  ...[[principal boy]] in [[pantomime]]. Her best-remembered roles were in the musicals ''[[No, No, Nanette]]'' (1925) and ''[[Mr. Cinders]]'' (1929), in which she ...(ed.) "Raine, Patricia", ''British Film and Television Yearbook'', Vol. 4, British and American Film Press (1952)</ref> The marriage ended in divorce about 19
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• Marcel Varnel
  ...]] working as director in several [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] operettas, musicals and dramas for the [[Shubert family]]. This was followed by a move to [[Hol ...h comedies – initially working at [[Associated British Picture Corporation|British International Pictures]], [[Elstree]], then moving in 1936 to [[Gainsboroug
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• Desmond Walter-Ellis
  ...was active in a range of genres, from classic drama to cabaret, revue and musicals. He played a major part in the development of [[BBC Television]] when it re ...s://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3d0fd47 "Desmond Walter-Ellis"], British Film Institute. Retrieved 6 August 2021</ref> For BBC Radio he repeated his
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• Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves
  ...ng his acting career as Peter Graves, he specialised in light comedies and musicals, often cast as dapper young men about town. His career peaked in the mid-to ...o appeared in a number of films by [[Herbert Wilcox]], such as the popular musicals ''[[Spring in Park Lane]]'' (1948) and ''[[Maytime in Mayfair]]'' (1949), b
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• Dick Vosburgh
  {{Short description|American-British comedy writer and lyricist}} Throughout the 70s he was in the top tier of British comedy writers often partnering with Garry Chambers and [[Barry Cryer]] on
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• Hy Hazell
  ...es give 1919 as her year of birth, although the [[w:British Film Institute|British Film Institute]] cites 1920 and ''[[w:The Oxford Reference|The Oxford Refer ...0 May 1970), stage name '''Hy Hazell''', was a British actress of theatre, musicals and revue as well as a contralto singer and [[w:film actress|film actress]]
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  *''[[Weekend at Thrackley]]'' (London, Skeffington & Son, 1934, Re-published British Library Publishing Division, 2018, {{ISBN|978-0712352116}}) *''[[Quick Curtain]]'' (London, Skeffington & Son, 1934. Re-published British Library Publishing Division, 2015, {{ISBN|978-0712357890}})
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• Roy Barraclough
  ...= Roy Barraclough<br /><small>[[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]]</small> ...ful landlord of the [[Rovers Return]] in the long-running [[United Kingdom|British]] [[TV]] [[soap opera|soap]] ''[[Coronation Street]]'', and for the double-
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• It's Trad, Dad!
  ...Dad!''''' (1962), known in the U.S. as '''''Ring-A-Ding Rhythm''''', is a British musical comedy featuring performances by a variety of [[Dixieland|Dixieland ...s Helen Shapiro and Craig Douglas themselves. However, unlike traditional "musicals" the songs have little to do with the movie plot. The other performers show
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• Avis Bunnage
  ...ecf9a|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-08-04|title=Avis Bunnage|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/x ...&dq=avis+bunnage+marie+lloyd&pg=PA112|title=Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre: Staging the Victorians|first=Benjamin|last=Poore|date=15 November
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• Lionel Bart
  ...960s birth of the British musical theatre scene after an era when American musicals had dominated the [[West End theatre|West End]].<ref name="nyt"/> ...Bart was described by [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] as "the father of the modern British musical".<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Lionel Bart, 68, Songwriter; Cre
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• Peter Gilmore
  ...Opera Diary : The Beggar's Opera. Apollo Theatre, September 16. ''[[Opera (British magazine)|Opera]]'', November 1968, Vol.19 No.11, p927-8.</ref> After achie
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• Catchphrase
  ..., followed distantly by dramas and action adventure flicks." Horror films, musicals and children's films were hardly ever cited.<ref name="www.cnn.com">{{cite ...le.com/books?id=Nm3jbg0JalMC ''A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, American and British, from the sixteenth century to the present day''] (enlarged trade paperback
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• Jerry Desmonde
  ...://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/573352 |title=Rooftop Rendezvous |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=5 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archiv ...l=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/823092 |title=Holiday Camp |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=5 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archiv
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• George Grossmith Jr.
  ...und Payne]]. At the same time, he developed a reputation as a co-writer of musicals and revues, usually adding jokes. ...''. In addition to his writing and performing, he sometimes directed these musicals and revues.<ref name=Ganzl/>
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• Lili Damita
  ...}}</ref> [[G.W. Pabst]] (''[[Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe]]''; 1926) and British [[Film director|director]] [[Graham Cutts]] ([[The Queen Was in the Parlour ==Selected stage musicals==
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• Ian La Frenais
  ...n [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], and completed his [[National Service]] in the [[British Army]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Weight |first=Richard |title=Porridge (BFI TV ...]]'', which won both the ''[[Evening Standard]]''{{'}}s [[Evening Standard British Film Awards|Peter Sellers Award for Comedy]] and a [[BAFTA Award for Best A
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• Dick Clement
  ...e Commitments (film)|The Commitments]]'', which won the [[Evening Standard British Film Awards|Evening Standard's Peter Sellers Award for Comedy]] and the [[B ...actor)|Charles Edwards]]. The duo have also written the book for two stage musicals in development, ''Juke Box Hero'' and ''Victoria's Secret''.
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