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- ...returned later to the United States, they made Britain their adopted home. From 1950 to 1961 they had a [[w:radio|radio]] programme on the [[w:BBC|BBC]], ' ....independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-barbara-lyon-1592650.html Obituary from ''The Independent'' (London)]5 KB (689 words) - 10:21, 27 December 2022
- | studio = [[w:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]], [[w:California|California]] ...s No Stopping Me Now". Its title phrase "Nice work if you can get it" came from an English magazine.<ref name="jazzstan">{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzsta7 KB (1,020 words) - 23:10, 17 January 2023
- ...man, but also Estonian and Scottish (Sanders wrote of his mother's descent from "the Thomas Clayhills of Dundee, who went to Estonia in 1626 to establish a ...LOMBARD AND RUSSELL DEBATED FOR "IDIOT'S DELIGHT" Schallert, Edwin. ''Los Angeles Times'' 2 December 1936: 8.</ref>23 KB (3,363 words) - 11:29, 23 December 2022
- [[Image:Damita & Flynn.jpg|thumb|Damita and husband [[Errol Flynn]] at Los Angeles airport, 1941]] ...yth"}}</ref> she married unknown actor [[Errol Flynn]] in 1935 and retired from the screen. Flynn soon became one of Hollywood's biggest box office attract13 KB (1,864 words) - 14:47, 18 January 2023
- ...to shoot in 1984, the others being ''[[A Private Function]]'' and a comedy from John MacKenzie, ''The Travelling Man'' (which ultimately would not be made) ...erous to other actors. We were climbing up a hill and we were being filmed from the top. Suddenly he went, oh! My leg! And he spoiled a whole take. So they15 KB (2,222 words) - 13:50, 28 January 2023
- ...edy television show starring [[Benny Hill]] that aired on the BBC and ITV (from 1969) between 15 January 1955 and 1 May 1989. The show consisted mainly of ...example, in a murder mystery farce entitled "Murder on the Oregon Express" from 1976 (a parody of ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on th21 KB (2,969 words) - 19:58, 6 September 2024
- ...Grade]]'s [[w:Associated TeleVision|Associated TeleVision]] (ATV), in use from the introduction of [[w:Color television|colour television]] in 1969, until ...opold Stokowski|Leopold Stokowski]], and the choir of professional British singers, as rehearsed by Luboff, performed such favourites as "[[w:Deep River (song46 KB (6,817 words) - 09:03, 6 February 2023
- ...wer his movie 'The Commitments,' about a fictional Irish band |work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=11 August 1991|url= http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-11/ent ...of the same name]] by [[Roddy Doyle]]. It was directed by [[Alan Parker]] from a screenplay written by Doyle, [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]]. Set76 KB (10,631 words) - 10:17, 12 April 2023
- * United States (from 1951) * Ireland (from {{Circa|1970}})110 KB (15,399 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- ...small private school, Selwood House. She enjoyed the cinema; her heroines from the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] act Dors often played characters suffering from unrequited love, and by the mid-1950s, she was known as "the English [[Mari86 KB (13,434 words) - 23:28, 12 February 2023
- ...] }}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=BOM only lists the sum of earnings from 2019 & 2020 Re-releases|date=November 2020}} ...its chorus) during the climactic car chase, which featured Caine among its singers.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.theitalianjob.com/the_film_soundtrack.ht33 KB (4,943 words) - 17:58, 12 March 2023
- ...ead-born actress Patricia Routledge marks return to home town with reading from classic children's book|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-n ...ch she portrayed every [[First Lady of the United States|U.S. First Lady]] from [[Abigail Adams]] to [[Eleanor Roosevelt]];<ref>{{cite news |last=Blekicki50 KB (6,892 words) - 13:51, 5 February 2023
- ...performed together with diminutive comic [[Edmund Payne]].<ref name=obit/> From 1904, he was a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]].<ref>He joined the Green Room Lodg ...s given writing credits for some of the Gaiety pieces, usually adaptations from French comedies (like ''The Spring Chicken'') or collaborations with other24 KB (3,704 words) - 23:39, 19 February 2023
- ...st a mere £23,000 to produce, it was a hit at the box office, with profits from its Australian release alone being £150,000.<ref name="bfireleases">[https ...as ''The Show Goes On''. The film, with a script featuring a contribution from [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]] (later to co-write ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' with [[Ors36 KB (5,270 words) - 00:10, 13 February 2023
- ...families welcoming their loved ones. He also points out that the messages from the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|9/11]] victims were messages of love and n ...ght by his wife purchasing an expensive necklace with a gold heart pendant from the jewellery<!-- This is the way this word is spelled other than in the US52 KB (7,158 words) - 22:21, 18 March 2023
- ...04}} Formby also had a successful recording career and made the transition from music hall to [[revue]] in 1916. ...n|Formby was not alone in developing a chest complaint: the mortality rate from bronchitis was 20% higher in the north west than the rest of the country.{{38 KB (5,859 words) - 16:01, 22 September 2024
- ...Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' (1963) and ''[[How to Murder Your Wife]]'' (1965). From the mid-1960s on he also frequently starred in European films, in roles suc ...and, shortly before his death, was living in poverty, existing on charity from the Actors' Benevolent Fund. A charity gala was held in his honour, which r94 KB (14,211 words) - 07:49, 27 September 2024
- ...-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and influence, includi ...th America, it has coloured the work of [[cult following|cult]] performers from the early editions of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' through to more recent [[151 KB (22,229 words) - 11:42, 4 January 2023
- ...= Neil Innes<br />[[Fred Tomlinson (singer)|Fred Tomlinson Singers]] ...emiered on 5 October on [[BBC1]], with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV.69 KB (10,368 words) - 20:10, 11 February 2023
- ...e next several years, still wearing his dressing gown, helplessly launched from crisis to crisis while trying to straighten out his lifestyle. He rather en ...on a planet shortly before Vogons are due to destroy it, Agrajag wakes up from a coma after six months having won the lottery and been recognised by a lon137 KB (22,869 words) - 10:55, 25 August 2024