• Hoots Mon! (1940 film)
  | released = {{film date|df=y|1940|4|27}} '''''Hoots Mon!''''' is a 1940 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Roy William Neill]] and starring [[Ma
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• The Middle Watch (1940 film)
  | image = "The_Middle_Watch"_(1940).jpg | released = 11 May 1940
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• Under Your Hat
  | image = Under Your Hat (1940).jpg | released = {{film date|1940|09|01|df=yes}}
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• O-Kay for Sound
  ...of London. However, they are hired as [[Extra (actor)|extras]] on a [[film set]].<ref>Mundy p.80</ref> After arriving at the studios they are mistaken for ...director]] [[Alex Vetchinsky]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1ea9da|title=O-kay for Sound (1937)|website=BFI}}</ref>
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• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (film)
  | name = Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall | image = Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall.jpg
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• Old Mother Riley, MP
  | released = 15 August 1939 (London)(UK)<br>20 January 1940 (UK general release) ...[[Kitty McShane]], which forms part of the [[Old Mother Riley]] series of films. The film's plot centres on Old Mother Riley standing for election to the H
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• Mario Zampi
  | caption = Zampi (C) on the set of [[Now and Forever (1956 film)|Now and Forever]] with [[Bryan Forbes]] (L | known_for = co-founding [[Two Cities Films]]
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• Band Waggon (film)
  | image = "Band_Waggon"_(1940).jpg | released = 23 March 1940 (UK)
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• Where's That Fire?
  {{short description|1940 film by Marcel Varnel}} | released = {{Film date|1940|01|06|df=y}}
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• Appointment with Venus (film)
  ...zAI#v=onepage&q&f=true BFI Collections: Michael Balcon Papers H3 reprinted in ''British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference'' By Sue Harper, Vi In the United States the film was re-titled '''''Island Rescue'''''.
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• Fiddlers Three (1944 film)
  | studio = [[Ealing Films]] ...hit in [[Australia]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reid|first1=John Howard|title=Films Famous, Fanciful, Frolicsome & Fantastic|date=2006|publisher=Lulu Press|loc
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• Frank Launder
  ...eenonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17b8221|title=Frank Launder}}</ref> He was born in [[Hitchin]], Hertfordshire, England and worked briefly as a clerk before be
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• Angela Douglas
  | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|10|29|df=yes}} '''Angela Douglas''' (born 29 October 1940), born '''Angela McDonagh''', is an English actress.
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• Edward Black (producer)
  ...insel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48'' By Robert Murphy p34]</ref> In 1946 Mason called Black "the one good production executive" that [[J. Arthu ...used to come off as successful as his others."<ref>Round Table on British Films Cornelius, Henry; Dickinson, Thorold; Havelock-Allan, Anthony; John, Rosamu
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• Esma Cannon
  ...years, Cannon is best remembered as a film actress, with a lengthy career in British productions from the 1930s to the 1960s. ...er if she visited London he would give her work; her first London role was in the play ''Misadventure''.<ref>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4
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• Leslie Fuller
  ...901 he was a self-employed printer. As a boy, Leslie would help his father in the business. ...]]s" at [[Silloth]], [[Cumberland]]. In 1914 at the end of a summer season in [[Weston-super-Mare]], Fuller married one of his fellow entertainers, the 2
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• Alvar Lidell
  Lidell was born in [[w:Wimbledon Park|Wimbledon Park]], [[w:Surrey|Surrey]], to [[w:Sweden|Swe ...cer, transferring to London after a year. He became deputy chief announcer in 1937, and the following year married Nancy Margaret Corfield, a lawyer's da
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• A Yank at Oxford
  ...]], with men therefore starting to doubt Taylor's masculinity. His casting in this film (by Mayer) was a successful attempt to put paid to such doubts, a ...s, ([[Lionel Barrymore]]) limited income, but he finally does attend. Once in England, Lee brags about his athletic triumphs to Paul Beaumont ([[Griffith
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• Dad's Army (1971 film)
  1940 – [[Operation Dynamo]] has just taken place. From the newly conquered [[F ...d Kingdom)|Local Defence Volunteers (LDV)]].<ref>The actual talk was given in the evening, when most people would be listening to their radios.</ref> At
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• Two Thousand Women
  | distributor = [[Gainsborough Studios]]<br />Ellis Films (US) ...ce-1945-c22731925&usg=ALkJrhiPuUc4vZGBcb7OUARBcpu2dF_c5A French box office in 1945] at Box office story</ref>
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