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Brief Encounter

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Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about British suburban life on the eve of World War 2, centring on Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger, Alec. [1]

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Academy Award (radio)

Academy Award was a CBS radio anthology series which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels or films.

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Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Alfie Bass

Alfie Bass (born Abraham Basalinsky, 10 April 1916 – 15 July 1987) was an English actor.

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Altman (film)

Altman is a 2014 documentary film about the life and career of film director Robert Altman.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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André Previn

André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Anthony Havelock-Allan

Sir Anthony James Allan Havelock-Allan, 4th Baronet (28 February 1904 – 11 January 2003) was a British film producer and screenwriter whose credits included This Happy Breed, Blithe Spirit, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet and Ryan's Daughter.

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Apartment

An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

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Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire centred WNW of London and SSE of the county's administrative town, Aylesbury.

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BFI Top 100 British films

In 1999 the British Film Institute surveyed 1,000 people from the world of British film and television to produce the BFI 100 list of the greatest British films of the 20th century.

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Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England.

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Blackout (wartime)

A blackout during war, or in preparation for an expected war, is the practice of collectively minimizing outdoor light, including upwardly directed (or reflected) light.

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Boots UK

Boots UK (formerly Boots the Chemists Ltd), trading as Boots, is a pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Thailand and other territories.

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Bradford

Bradford is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield.

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Brief Encounter (1974 film)

Brief Encounter is a 1974 British-Italian television film starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren, adapted from the play Still Life by Noël Coward.

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Brief Encounter (opera)

Brief Encounter is an opera in two acts by composer André Previn.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.

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Carnforth

Carnforth is a small town and civil parish near Lancaster in the north of Lancashire, England, situated at the north east end of Morecambe Bay.

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Carnforth railway station

Carnforth railway station serves the town of Carnforth in Lancashire, England.

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Celia Johnson

Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress, known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953).

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Class consciousness

In political theory and particularly Marxism, class consciousness is the set of beliefs that a person holds regarding their social class or economic rank in society, the structure of their class, and their class interests.

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Cyril Raymond

Cyril William North Raymond MBE (13 February 1899 in Rowley Regis, Staffordshire – 20 March 1973 in Ripe, near Lewes, Sussex) was a British character actor.

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Dad's Army

Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War.

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David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, responsible for large-scale epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984).

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David Niven

James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was an English actor, memoirist and novelist.

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David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers

David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers (born 14 May 1959) and (born 5 May 1969), are two West End and Broadway theatre producers.

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Deborah Kerr

Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer CBE (30 September 192116 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a Scottish film, theatre and television actress.

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Denham Film Studios

Denham Film Studios were a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952.

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Denham, Buckinghamshire

Denham is a village and civil parish in the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Derek Malcolm

Derek Elliston Michael Malcolm (born 12 May 1932 in Marylebone, London) is an English film critic and historian.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Eagle-Lion Films

Eagle-Lion Films was a British film production company owned by J. Arthur Rank intended to release British productions in the United States.

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Economic freedom

Economic freedom or economic liberty is the ability of people of a society to take economic actions.

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Edward VIII

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December the same year, after which he became the Duke of Windsor.

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Eileen Joyce

Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG (1 January 190825 March 1991) was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years.

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Emma Rice

Emma Juliet Rice (born August 1967) is an English actress, director and theatre professional.

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Everley Gregg

Everley Gregg (26 October 1903, Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England – 9 June 1959, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England) was an English actress.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence (4 July 1898 – 6 September 1952) was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York.

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Goodnight Sweetheart (TV series)

Goodnight Sweetheart is a British sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999.

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Greer Garson

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996), was a British-American actress popular during the Second World War, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946.

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Guthrie Theater

The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame, originally called Hallmark Television Playhouse, is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City-based greeting card company.

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Hannah Yelland

Hannah Yelland (born 1976) is the stage name of Hannah Bahar (formerly Hannah Roberts), a British actress now living and working in the United States.

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Hayley Mills

Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress.

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Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown; October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned 80 years.

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Herbert Marshall

Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen and radio actor who, despite losing a leg during the First World War, starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Houston Grand Opera

Houston Grand Opera (HGO), located in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert and Houstonians Elva Lobit, Edward Bing, and Charles Cockrell.

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Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films.

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Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne (born Irene Marie Dunn, December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s.

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Irene Handl

Irene Handl (27 December 1901 – 29 November 1987) was an English character actress who appeared in over a hundred British films.

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Jack Harris (film editor)

Jack Harris (1905–1971) was a British film editor, born at South Farnborough, in the English county of Hampshire.

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Jenny Seagrove

Jennifer Ann Seagrove (born 4 July 1957) is an English actress.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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John Caird (director)

John Newport Caird (born 22 September 1948) is an English stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

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Joyce Carey

Joyce Carey, OBE (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward.

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Kneehigh Theatre

Kneehigh Theatre is an international touring theatre company founded by Mike Shepherd and based in Cornwall, England.

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Lancaster, Lancashire

Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, England. It is on the River Lune and has a population of 52,234; the wider City of Lancaster local government district has a population of 138,375. Long a commercial, cultural and educational centre, Lancaster gives Lancashire its name. The House of Lancaster was a branch of the English royal family, whilst the Duchy of Lancaster holds large estates on behalf of Elizabeth II, who is also the Duke of Lancaster. Lancaster is an ancient settlement, dominated by Lancaster Castle, Lancaster Priory Church and the Ashton Memorial. It is also home to Lancaster University and a campus of the University of Cumbria.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Playhouse

Leeds Playhouse is a theatre in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the north of England.

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Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer (born Lilli Marie Peiser; 24 May 1914 – 27 January 1986) was a German actress and writer.

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London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)It has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR.

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Lux Radio Theatre

Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company in 1943 /1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).

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Maida Vale Studios

Maida Vale Studios is a complex of seven BBC sound studios, of which five are in regular use, in Delaware Road, Maida Vale, London.

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Margaret Barton

Margaret Barton (born 27 May 1926 in Finsbury Park, London) is a British actress.

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Marlowe Theatre

The Marlowe Theatre is a major 1,200-seat theatre in Canterbury, England.

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Morecambe

Morecambe is a town on Morecambe Bay in Lancashire, England, which had a population of 34,768 at the 2011 Census.

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Moritz Moszkowski

Moritz (Maurice) Moszkowski (23 August 18544 March 1925) was a German- Polish-Jewish composer, pianist, and teacher of Polish descent on his paternal side.

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Movie star

A movie star (also known as a film star and cinema star) is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures.

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Movie theater

A movie theater/theatre (American English), cinema (British English) or cinema hall (Indian English) is a building that contains an auditorium for viewing films (also called movies) for entertainment.

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Mum's Army

"Mum's Army" is the ninth episode of the fourth series of the British comedy series Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on Friday 20 November 1970.

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Naomi Frederick

Naomi Frederick (born 29 November 1976 in London, England) is an English actress and graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nigel Havers

Nigel Allan Havers (born 6 November 1951) is an English actor.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Olivia de Havilland

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a British-American actress, whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988.

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One-act play

A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts.

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Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Peggy Wood

Mary Margaret "Peggy" Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.

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Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Realism (arts)

Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.

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Refreshment room

A refreshment room is an establishment that was formerly common in railway stations in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries that were formerly part of the British Empire.

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Richard Basehart

John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914September 17, 1984) was an American actor.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton, CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 19255 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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Richard Dyer

Richard Dyer (born 1945) is an English academic currently holding a professorship in the Department of Film Studies at King's College London.

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Richmond Theatre

The present Richmond Theatre, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is a British Victorian theatre located on Little Green, adjacent to Richmond Green.

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Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Robert Krasker

Robert Krasker, B.S.C., A.S.C. (21 August 1913 – 16 August 1981) was an Australian cinematographer who worked on more than fifty films in his career.

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Romance film

Romance films or romance movies are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on TV that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters and the journey that their genuinely strong, true and pure romantic love takes them through dating, courtship or marriage.

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Ronald Neame

Ronald Elwin Neame CBE BSC (23 April 1911 – 16 June 2010) was an English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Roundabout Theatre Company

The Roundabout Theatre Company is a leading non-profit theatre company based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres.

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Salford, Greater Manchester

Salford is a town in the City of Salford, North West England.

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Sam Wanamaker

Samuel Wanamaker, CBE (born Samuel Wattenmacker; June 14, 1919 – December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director who moved to the UK, after becoming fearful of being blacklisted in Hollywood due to his liberal sympathies.

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Sean O'Connor (producer)

Sean O'Connor (born 11 February 1968, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England) is a British producer, writer and director working in theatre, film, television and radio.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire.

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Shameless (UK TV series)

Shameless is a British comedy-drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate.

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Sight & Sound

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Sophia Loren

Sofia Villani Scicolone, known as Sophia Loren, Dame of the Grand Cross, O.M.R.I. (born 20 September 1934) is an Italian film actress and singer.

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Stanley Holloway

Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, humourist, singer, poet and monologist.

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Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 191316 August 1993) was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles.

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Stiff upper lip

One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises great self-restraint in the expression of emotion.

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Still Life (play)

Still Life is a short play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up Tonight at 8:30, a cycle written to be performed across three evenings.

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Studio 54

Studio 54 is a former nightclub and currently a Broadway theatre, located at 254 West 54th Street, between Eighth Avenue and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Sydney Bromley

Sydney Bromley (24 July 1909 – 14 August 1987) was an English character actor.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The History Boys

The History Boys is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett.

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The Lowry

The Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex situated on Pier 8 at Salford Quays, in Salford, Greater Manchester, England.

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The Screen Guild Theater

The Screen Guild Theater is a radio anthology series broadcast from 1939 until 1952 during the Golden Age of Radio.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a British travel magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Tonight at 8:30

Tonight at 8.30 is a cycle of ten one-act plays by Noël Coward.

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Total Film

Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year (published monthly and a summer issue is added every year since issue 91, 2004 which is published between July and August issue) by Future Publishing.

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Trevor Howard

Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988), known as Trevor Howard, was an English actor.

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Valentine Dyall

Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908 – 24 June 1985) was an English character actor.

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Van Heflin

Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. (December 13, 1908 – July 23, 1971) was an American theatre, radio and film actor.

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Voice-over

Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice—that is not part of the narrative (non-diegetic)—is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations.

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Wallace Bosco

Wallace Charles Bosco (31 January 1880 in St Pancras, London – 1973 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) was an English film actor and screenwriter.

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When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be

"When I have Fears" is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats.

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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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19th Academy Awards

The 19th Academy Awards continued a trend through the late-1940s of the Oscar voters honoring films about contemporary social issues.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_Encounter

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