Polly Ward
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Female
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Thank Evans
Overview: An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-16
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St. Martin's Lane
Overview: On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-18
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This Marriage Business
Overview: 'Newlywed poses as burglar to scare flighty wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-01
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It's in the Air
Overview: George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-01
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Feather Your Nest
Overview: A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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Harmony Heaven
Overview: The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-21
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Alf's Button
Overview: A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-24
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Hold My Hand
Overview: Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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Women Aren't Angels
Overview: Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-18
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Annie Laurie
Overview: British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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It's a Bet
Overview: A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Shipmates o' Mine
Overview: A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-18
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His Lordship
Overview: The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-02
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New Faces
Overview: New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Kentucky Minstrels
Overview: 'Old-time minstrel sinks to poverty and rises to fresh stardom.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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Shooting Stars
Overview: The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-06
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