Cicely Courtneidge
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: April 01, 1893
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 26, 1980
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Dead by Morning
Overview: Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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The L-Shaped Room
Overview: Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-20
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The Spider's Web
Overview: Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband, who is bringing important visitors to their country home.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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The Perfect Gentleman
Overview: A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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Things Are Looking Up
Overview: Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-09
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Me and Marlborough
Overview: A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-22
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Falling for You
Overview: In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-15
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Jack's the Boy
Overview: With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-11
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The Ghost Train
Overview: The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-22
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Take My Tip
Overview: Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Aunt Sally
Overview: An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-13
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The Wrong Box
Overview: In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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Soldiers of the King
Overview: When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a family of music-hall performers. However, when young Dorothy Hyson begins an affair with a young soldier, Miss Courtneidge is trapped between her responsibilities and memories of her affair years ago with another young soldier.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-13
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Elstree Calling
Overview: A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-06
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Everybody Dance
Overview: When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-06
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Under Your Hat
Overview: In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-01
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Overview: In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-16
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Not Now Darling
Overview: A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Happy Ever After
Overview: Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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