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Sybil Thorndike

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Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike (24 October 18829 June 1976) was an English actress who toured internationally in Shakespearean productions, often appearing with her husband Lewis Casson. [1]

114 relations: A Gentleman of Paris (1931 film), A Passage to India (play), A roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A156 road, A631 road, Alive and Kicking (1959 film), Ann Casson, Annie Horniman, Anthony Hopkins, Arsenic and Old Lace (play), Bassetlaw, Beckingham, Nottinghamshire, Ben Greet, Bleak House, Broadway theatre, Candida (play), Canon (priest), Celia Imrie, Chelsea, London, Chichester, Christopher Casson, City of Westminster, Corringham, Lincolnshire, Dame, Dawn (1928 film), Doctor of Letters, Edith Cavell, Elsie Fogerty, Esmeralda (1922 film), Euripides, Fram (play), Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, George Bernard Shaw, Gilbert Murray, Grand Guignol, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Hecuba, Hindle Wakes (1931 film), John Gielgud, Join Jim Dale, Jonathan Croall, Jose Levy, Judi Dench, Labour Party (UK), Lady Macbeth, Laurence Olivier, Leatherhead, Lee de Forest, Lewis Casson, Lincolnshire, ..., Lindsey, Lincolnshire, London, Macbeth, Macbeth (1922 film), Major Barbara (film), Manchester, Melba (film), Moth and Rust, Muriel Spark, My Week with Marilyn, N. C. Hunter, Nichola McAuliffe, Nicholas de Jongh, Nicholas Nickleby, Noël Coward Theatre, Order of the British Empire, Order of the Companions of Honour, Pacifism, Peace Pledge Union, Phonofilm, Plague Over England, Portia (The Merchant of Venice), Queen Victoria, Ralph Richardson, Rochester Cathedral, Rochester Grammar School, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Russell Thorndike, Saint Joan (play), Sheridan Morley, Sian Thomas, Smiley Gets a Gun, Sound-on-film, Stage Fright (1950 film), Surrey, The Black Book, The Forbidden Street, The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens, The Lady with a Lamp, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 film), The Magic Box, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Old Vic, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel), The Prince and the Showgirl, The Scarlet Letter, The Trojan Women, Theatre Royal Haymarket, This Is Your Life (UK TV series), To What Red Hell, Tony Harrison, Uncle Vanya, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, Vaudeville Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum, West Lindsey, Westminster Abbey, William Shakespeare, World War I, World War II, 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Expand index (64 more) »

A Gentleman of Paris (1931 film)

A Gentleman of Paris is a 1931 British crime drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Arthur Wontner, Vanda Gréville and Hugh Williams.

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A Passage to India (play)

A Passage to India is a stage play written by Indian-American playwright Santha Rama Rau (1923-2009), based on E.M. Forster's novel of the same name.

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A roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 1 in Great Britain beginning north of the Thames, east of the A1 (roads beginning with 1).

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A156 road

The A156 is an long road that runs from the A57 near Saxilby and heads north to Gainsborough.

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A631 road

The A631 is a road running from Sheffield, South Yorkshire to Louth, Lincolnshire in England.

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Alive and Kicking (1959 film)

Alive and Kicking is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood and Stanley Holloway with Richard Harris making his film debut.

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Ann Casson

Ann Casson (6 November 1915 – 2 May 1990) was an English stage and film actress.

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Annie Horniman

Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH (3 October 1860 – 6 August 1937) was an English theatre patron and manager.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937), better known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor, widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living actors.

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Arsenic and Old Lace (play)

Arsenic and Old Lace is a play written by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.

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Bassetlaw

Bassetlaw is the northernmost district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 114,143 according to the mid-2014 estimate by the Office for National Statistics.

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Beckingham, Nottinghamshire

Beckingham is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, about 3 miles west of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

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Ben Greet

Sir Philip Barling "Ben" Greet (24 September 1857 – 17 May 1936) was a Shakespearean actor, director, and impresario.

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Bleak House

Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Candida (play)

Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant.

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Canon (priest)

A canon (from the Latin canonicus, itself derived from the Greek κανονικός, kanonikós, "relating to a rule", "regular") is a member of certain bodies subject to an ecclesiastical rule.

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Celia Imrie

Celia Diana Savile Imrie (born 15 July 1952) is an English actress.

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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an affluent area of South West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Christopher Casson

Christopher T. Casson (20 March 1912 – 9 July 1996) was an English-born actor who became a citizen of Ireland in 1946.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough which also holds city status.

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Corringham, Lincolnshire

Corringham is a civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Dame

Dame is an honorific title and the feminine form of address for the honour of knighthood in the British honours system and the systems of several other Commonwealth countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, with the masculine form of address being Sir.

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Dawn (1928 film)

Dawn is a 1928 British silent war film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Sybil Thorndike, Gordon Craig and Marie Ault.

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Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., D. Lit., or Lit. D.; Latin Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) is an academic degree, a higher doctorate which, in some countries, may be considered to be beyond the Ph.D. and equal to the Doctor of Science (Sc.D. or D.Sc.). It is awarded in many countries by universities and learned bodies in recognition of achievement in the humanities, original contribution to the creative arts or scholarship and other merits.

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Edith Cavell

Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse.

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Elsie Fogerty

Elsie Fogerty, CBE, LRAM, (16 December 1865, London – 4 July 1945, Leamington, Warwickshire) was an English teacher who bravely departed from the customary practice of “voice and diction” also called elocution.

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Esmeralda (1922 film)

Esmeralda is a 1922 British silent film and an adaptation of a novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo.

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Euripides

Euripides (Εὐριπίδης) was a tragedian of classical Athens.

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Fram (play)

Fram (Norwegian for Forward) is a 2008 play by Tony Harrison.

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Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Gainsborough is a town in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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Gilbert Murray

George Gilbert Aimé Murray, (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres.

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Grand Guignol

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ("The Theatre of the Great Puppet") — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.

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Hecuba

Hecuba (also Hecabe, Hécube; Ἑκάβη Hekábē) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children.

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Hindle Wakes (1931 film)

Hindle Wakes is a 1931 British film drama, directed by Victor Saville for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Belle Chrystall and John Stuart.

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John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.

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Join Jim Dale

Join Jim Dale was a British television comedy series aired 1969 on ITV.

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Jonathan Croall

Jonathan Croall (born 19 August 1941) is a British author and journalist.

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Jose Levy

Juan Jose G. Levy (Portsmouth, 29 June 1884 - 6 October 1936) was an English theatre practitioner who attempted to import the ghoulish and grisly Grand Guignol aesthetic for London audiences.

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Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c.1603–1607).

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Leatherhead

Leatherhead is a town in Surrey, England on the right bank of the River Mole, and at the edge of the contiguous built-up area of London.

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Lee de Forest

Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor, self-described "Father of Radio", and a pioneer in the development of sound-on-film recording used for motion pictures.

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Lewis Casson

Sir Lewis Thomas Casson MC (26 October 187516 May 1969) was a British actor and theatre director, and the husband of actress Dame Sybil Thorndike.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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Lindsey, Lincolnshire

The Parts of Lindsey are a traditional division of Lincolnshire, England, covering the northern part of the county.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Macbeth

Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606.

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Macbeth (1922 film)

Macbeth is a black and white 1922 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth.

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Major Barbara (film)

Major Barbara is a 1941 British film starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Melba (film)

Melba is a 1953 musical biopic drama film of the life of Australian-born soprano Nellie Melba, written by Harry Kurnitz and directed by Lewis Milestone for Horizon Pictures, marking the film debut of the Metropolitan Opera's Patrice Munsel.

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Moth and Rust

Moth and Rust is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Sybil Thorndike, Malvina Longfellow and Langhorn Burton.

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Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006).

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My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn is a 2011 drama film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Adrian Hodges.

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N. C. Hunter

Norman Charles Hunter, (18 September 190819 April 1971) was a British playwright whose plays attracted such notable actors to perform them as John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, and Ingrid Bergman.

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Nichola McAuliffe

Nichola McAuliffe (born 27 August 1955) is an English television and stage actress and writer, best known for her role as Sheila Sabatini in the ITV sitcom Surgical Spirit (1989–1995).

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Nicholas de Jongh

Nicholas de Jongh is a British writer, theatre critic and playwright.

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Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens.

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Noël Coward Theatre

The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre on St.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Order of the Companions of Honour

The Order of the Companions of Honour is an order of the Commonwealth realms.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism, or violence.

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Peace Pledge Union

The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) is a British pacifist non-governmental organisation.

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Phonofilm

Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the 1920s.

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Plague Over England

Plague Over England is a play written by Nicholas de Jongh, based on a real-life incident when actor John Gielgud was arrested for lewd behavior in 1953; it provides an insight into the changes in the lives of gay people over the last fifty years.

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Portia (The Merchant of Venice)

Portia is the heroine of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Ralph Richardson

Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Rochester Cathedral

Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an English church of Norman architecture in Rochester, Kent.

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Rochester Grammar School

Rochester Grammar School (known as Rochester Grammar School for Girls until 2006) is a grammar school for the education of girls between the ages of 11 and 18.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Royal Central School of Speech & Drama

The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906 to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students.

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Russell Thorndike

Arthur Russell Thorndike (6 February 1885, Rochester, Kent – 7 November 1972) was a British actor and novelist, best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels.

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Saint Joan (play)

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc.

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Sheridan Morley

Sheridan Morley (5 December 1941, Ascot, Berkshire − 16 February 2007, London) was an English author, biographer, critic and broadcaster.

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Sian Thomas

Siân Thomas (born 20 September 1953) is a Welsh actress who trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

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Smiley Gets a Gun

Smiley Gets a Gun is a 1958 Australian film in CinemaScope and Technicolor directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Sybil Thorndike and Chips Rafferty.

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Sound-on-film

Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying picture is physically recorded onto photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture.

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Stage Fright (1950 film)

Stage Fright is a 1950 British thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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The Black Book

The Sonderfahndungsliste G.B. ("Special Search List Great Britain") was a secret list of prominent British residents to be arrested, produced in 1940 by the SS as part of the preparation for the proposed invasion of Britain codenamed ''Unternehmen Seelöwe'' (Operation Sea Lion).

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The Forbidden Street

The Forbidden Street is a 1949 British melodrama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A. E. Matthews.

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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

The Great Inimitable Mr.

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The Lady with a Lamp

The Lady With A Lamp is a 1951 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding and Felix Aylmer.

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 film)

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a 1947 British drama film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Cedric Hardwicke.

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The Magic Box

The Magic Box is a 1951 British, Technicolor, biographical drama film, directed by John Boulting.

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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.

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The Old Vic

The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre, located just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England.

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.

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The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl (originally called The Sleeping Prince) is a 1957 British-American romantic comedy film starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier.

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The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, an 1850 novel, is a work of historical fiction written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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The Trojan Women

The Trojan Women (Τρῳάδες, Trōiades), also known as Troades, is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides.

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Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.

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This Is Your Life (UK TV series)

This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same title.

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To What Red Hell

To What Red Hell is a 1929 British crime film directed by Edwin Greenwood and starring Sybil Thorndike, Bramwell Fletcher and Janice Adair.

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Tony Harrison

Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright.

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Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya (translit) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Vaudeville Theatre

The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on the Strand in the City of Westminster.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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West Lindsey

West Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1926 United Kingdom general strike

The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted 9 days, from 3 May 1926 to 12 May 1926.

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