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Oh! What a Lovely War

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Oh! What a Lovely War is a 1969 British comedy musical film directed by Richard Attenborough (in his directorial debut), with an ensemble cast including Maggie Smith, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, John Mills, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, Paul Shelley, Malcolm McFee, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Nanette Newman, Edward Fox, Susannah York, John Clements, Phyllis Calvert and Maurice Roëves. [1]

140 relations: Angela Thorne, Angus Lennie, Anthony Ainley, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Armistice, Babyshambles, Battle of Mons, Bayham Old Abbey, BBC World Service, Belgium, Bertrand Russell, Brian Duffy (photographer), Brighton, Brighton railway station, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cambridge University Press, Carole Gray, Cecil Parker, Charles Chilton, Chorus line, Christian Doermer, Clifford Mollison, Colin Farrell, Comedy, Corin Redgrave, Count Leopold Berchtold, Dalai Lama, David Lodge (actor), Derek Newark, Dirk Bogarde, Ditchling Beacon, Don Challis, Dorothy Reynolds, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Drag king, Edward Fox (actor), Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Ella Shields, Ensemble cast, Fanny Carby, Frant, Franz Joseph I of Austria, French cuisine, Geoffrey Davies, Gerald Sim, Gerry Turpin, Golden Globe Award, Guy Middleton, Hair (musical), Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire, ..., Harry Locke, Ian Holm, Interfaith dialogue, Isabel Dean, Italy, Jack Hawkins, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jerome Kern, Jews, Joan Littlewood, Joe Melia, John Clements (actor), John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, John Gielgud, John Mills, John Rae (actor), Juliet Mills, Kenneth More, Kevin Connor (director), King's shilling, La Chanson de Craonne, Laurence Olivier, Len Deighton, Maggie Smith, Malcolm McFee, Marianne Stone, Mary Wimbush, Maurice Roëves, Meriel Forbes, Michael Bates (actor), Michael Redgrave, Mise-en-scène, Motif (narrative), Music hall, Musical film, Musical theatre, Nanette Newman, Natasha Parry, Nicholas II of Russia, Norman Jones (actor), Norman Shelley, Oh, What a Lovely War!, Only When I Larf (film), Over There, Ovingdean, Paddy Joyce, Paramount Pictures, Parody, Paul Daneman, Paul McCartney, Paul Shelley, Pauline Kael, Penelope Allen, Peter Gilmore, Phyllis Calvert, Pia Colombo, Priest, Ralph Richardson, Raymond Hawkey, Raymond Poincaré, Red Wing (song), Richard Attenborough, Richard Eyre, Robert Flemyng, Ron Pember, Serbia, Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, South Downs, Susannah York, Sussex, Sylvia Pankhurst, The Beatles, The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling, The Daily Telegraph, Theatre Workshop, They Didn't Believe Me, Thorley Walters, Tony Blair, Turkey, University of Sussex, Vanessa Redgrave, Vincent Ball, Wendy Allnutt, West Pier, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Woodrow Wilson, World War I, 15 Minute Musical. Expand index (90 more) »

Angela Thorne

Angela Thorne (born 25 January 1939) is an English actress of stage, television and film who is best known for her roles in To the Manor Born, as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton's best friend Marjory Frobisher, and as Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis?.

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Angus Lennie

Angus Wilson Lennie (18 April 1930 – 14 September 2014) was a Scottish film and theatre character actor with a 50-year career span.

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Anthony Ainley

Anthony Ainley (20 August 1932 – 3 May 2004) was an English actor best known for his work on British television and particularly for his role as the Master in Doctor Who.

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia and, from 1896 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

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Armistice

An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.

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Babyshambles

Babyshambles is an English rock band established in London.

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Battle of Mons

The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War.

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Bayham Old Abbey

Bayham Old Abbey is an English Heritage property, located near Frant, East Sussex, England.

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BBC World Service

The BBC World Service, the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasts radio and television news, speech and discussions in over 30 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

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Brian Duffy (photographer)

Brian Duffy (15 June 193331 May 2010) was an English photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion and portrait photography of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Brighton railway station

Brighton railway station is the southern terminus of the Brighton Main Line in England, and the principal station serving the city of Brighton, East Sussex.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Carole Gray

Carole Gray (born 1940 in Bulawayo, Linked 2017-07-11 Rhodesia (today's Zimbabwe) is a former British dancer and actress who performed in the 1960s, particularly in West End musicals. She appeared in television series such as The Avengers, and made her film debut as Cliff Richard's girlfriend Toni in The Young Ones (1961). Thereafter, she appeared mainly in horror films, such as Curse of the Fly, Devils of Darkness, and Island of Terror, and was given the nickname the "Scream Queen". She was married to diamond heir Douglas Cullinan.

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Cecil Parker

Cecil Parker (3 September 1897 – 20 April 1971) was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctively husky voice, who usually played supporting roles, often characters with a supercilious demeanour, in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969.

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Charles Chilton

Charles Chilton MBE (15 June 1917 – 2 January 2013) was a BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer.

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Chorus line

A chorus line is a large group of dancers who together perform synchronized routines, usually in musical theatre.

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Christian Doermer

Christian Doermer (born 5 July 1935) is a German actor.

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Clifford Mollison

Clifford Lely Mollison (30 March 1897 – 4 June 1986) was a British film and television actor.

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Colin Farrell

Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Corin Redgrave

Corin William Redgrave (16 July 19396 April 2010) was an English actor and far-left political activist.

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Count Leopold Berchtold

Leopold (Anton Johann Sigismund Josef Korsinus Ferdinand) Graf Berchtold von und zu Ungarschitz, Frättling und Püllütz (Gróf Berchtold Lipót, Leopold hrabě Berchtold z Uherčic) (18 April 1863 – 21 November 1942), was an Austro-Hungarian politician, diplomat and statesman who served as Imperial Foreign Minister at the outbreak of World War I.

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Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama (Standard Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Tā la'i bla ma) is a title given to spiritual leaders of the Tibetan people.

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David Lodge (actor)

David William Frederick Lodge (19 August 1921 in Rochester, Kent, England – 18 October 2003 in Northwood, Middlesex, England) was an English character actor.

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Derek Newark

Derek Newark (8 June 1933 – 11 August 1998) was an English actor in television, film and theatre.

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Dirk Bogarde

Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor and writer.

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Ditchling Beacon

Ditchling Beacon is the third-highest point on the South Downs in south-east England, behind Butser Hill (270 m; 886 ft) and Crown Tegleaze (253 m; 830 ft).

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Don Challis

Donald Challis (born 26 June 1929) is a British sound and dubbing editor for many critically acclaimed films, including The Three Musketeers (1973 film), A Taste of Honey (film) and Help! (film).

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Dorothy Reynolds

Dorothy Reynolds (26 January 1913-7 April 1977) was a British writer and actress.

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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928), was a senior officer of the British Army.

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Drag king

Drag kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of an individual or group routine.

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Edward Fox (actor)

Edward Charles Morice Fox, (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor.

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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, KG, PC, DL, FZS (25 April 1862 – 7 September 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey (he was the 3rd Baronet Grey of Fallodon), was a British Liberal statesman.

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Ella Shields

Ella Shields (September 27, 1879 – August 5, 1952) was a music hall singer and male-impersonator.

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Ensemble cast

An ensemble cast is made up of cast members in which multiple principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production.

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Fanny Carby

Fanny Carby (2 February 1925 – 20 September 2002) was a British actress.

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Frant

Frant is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, on the Kentish border about three miles (5 km) south of Royal Tunbridge Wells.

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Franz Joseph I of Austria

Franz Joseph I also Franz Josef I or Francis Joseph I (Franz Joseph Karl; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and monarch of other states in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, from 2 December 1848 to his death.

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French cuisine

French cuisine consists of the cooking traditions and practices from France.

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Geoffrey Davies

Geoffrey Davies (born 15 December 1942 in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actor.

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Gerald Sim

Gerald Grant Sim (4 June 1925 – 11 December 2014) was an English television and film actor who is perhaps best known for playing the Rector in To the Manor Born.

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Gerry Turpin

Gerald Leslie "Gerry" Turpin (1 September 1925, Wandsworth, London – 16 September 1997, North Cotswold, Gloucestershire) was an English cinematographer.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Guy Middleton

Guy Middleton Powell (14 December 1907 – 30 July 1973), better known as Guy Middleton, was an English film character actor.

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Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.

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Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire

"Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire" (Roud 9618) is a war song of World War I. The song sarcastically recounts the location of various army members, not to be found in the combat zone, and concludes by describing the location of the old battalion: "hanging on the old barbed wire".

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Harry Locke

Harry Locke (10 December 1913 – 17 September 1987) was an English character actor.

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Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert (born 12 September 1931), known professionally as Ian Holm, is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles.

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Interfaith dialogue

Interfaith dialogue refers to cooperative, constructive, and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions (i.e., "faiths") and/or spiritual or humanistic beliefs, at both the individual and institutional levels.

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Isabel Dean

Isabel Dean (29 May 1918 – 27 July 1997) was an English film and television actress.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jack Hawkins

John Edward Hawkins, CBE (14 September 1910 – 18 July 1973) was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s.

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Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jean-Pierre Cassel (27 October 1932 – 19 April 2007) was a French actor.

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Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Joan Littlewood

Joan Maud Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002) was an English theatre director, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop.

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Joe Melia

Joe Melia (23 January 1935, Islington, London – 20 October 2012, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire) was a British actor.

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John Clements (actor)

Sir John Selby Clements, CBE (25 April 1910 – 6 April 1988) was an English actor and producer who worked in theatre, television and film.

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John French, 1st Earl of Ypres

Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer.

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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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John Mills

Sir John Mills, (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.

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John Rae (actor)

John Rae (19 July 1896 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland - February, 1985 in Droxford, Hampshire, England) was a Scottish actor.

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Juliet Mills

Juliet Maryon Mills (born 21 November 1941) is a British and American actress.

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Kenneth More

Kenneth Gilbert More, CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English film and stage actor.

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Kevin Connor (director)

Kevin Connor is an English film and television director currently based in Hollywood.

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King's shilling

The King's shilling, sometimes called the Queen's shilling when the Sovereign is female, is a historical slang term referring to the earnest payment of one shilling given to recruits to the Armed forces of the United Kingdom in the 18th and 19th centuries, although the practice dates back to the end of the English Civil War.

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La Chanson de Craonne

La Chanson de Craonne (English: The Song of Craonne) is an anti-military song of World War I written in 1917.

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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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Len Deighton

Leonard Cyril Deighton (born 18 February 1929), known as Len Deighton, is a British author.

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Maggie Smith

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress.

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Malcolm McFee

Malcolm Raymond McFee (16 August 1949 – 18 November 2001) was an English actor best known for his role as Peter Craven in the TV series Please Sir!, the film of the same name, and the spin-off TV series The Fenn Street Gang.

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Marianne Stone

Marianne Stone (23 August 1922 – 21 December 2009) was an English character actress.

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Mary Wimbush

Mary Wimbush (19 March 1924 – 31 October 2005) was an English actress whose career spanned 60 years.

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Maurice Roëves

Maurice Roëves is a film and television actor.

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Meriel Forbes

Meriel Forbes, Lady Richardson (13 September 1913 – 7 April 2000) was an English actress.

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Michael Bates (actor)

Michael Hammond Bates (4 December 1920 – 11 January 1978) was an Anglo-Indian actor.

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Michael Redgrave

Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager, and author.

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Mise-en-scène

Mise-en-scène ("placing on stage") is an expression used to describe the design aspect of a theatre or film production, which essentially means "visual theme" or "telling a story"—both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography and stage design, and in poetically artful ways through direction.

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Motif (narrative)

In narrative, a motif is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.

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Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Nanette Newman

Nanette Newman (born 29 May 1934) is an English actress and authoress.

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Natasha Parry

Natasha Parry (2 December 1930 – 22 July 2015) was an English actress.

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Nicholas II of Russia

Nicholas II or Nikolai II (r; 1868 – 17 July 1918), known as Saint Nicholas II of Russia in the Russian Orthodox Church, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917.

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Norman Jones (actor)

Norman Jones (16 June 1932Report by Toby Neal. – 23 April 2013) was an English actor, primarily on television.

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Norman Shelley

Norman Shelley (16 February 1903 – 22 August 1980) was a British actor, best known for his work in radio, in particular for the BBC's Children's Hour.

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Oh, What a Lovely War!

Oh, What a Lovely War! is an epic musical developed by Joan Littlewood and her ensemble at the Theatre Workshop in 1963.

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Only When I Larf (film)

Only When I Larf is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, and Alexandra Stewart.

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Over There

"Over There" is a 1917 song written by George M. Cohan, that was popular with the United States military and public during both world wars.

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Ovingdean

Ovingdean is a small formerly agricultural village in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England.

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Paddy Joyce

Patrick Francis "Paddy" Joyce (31 May 1923 — 27 July 2000) was an Irish actor of film and television productions.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Paul Daneman

Paul Frederick Daneman (29 October 1925 – 28 April 2001) was an English film, television and theatre actor.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Paul Shelley

Paul Shelley (born Paul Matthews, 15 May 1942) is an English actor.

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Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991.

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Penelope Allen

Penelope Allen, also known as Penny Allen, is an American stage and film actress and acting coach.

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Peter Gilmore

John Peter Gilmore (25 August 1931 – 3 February 2013), known as Peter Gilmore, was an English actor, known for his portrayal of Captain James Onedin in 91 episodes of the BBC television period drama The Onedin Line (1971–80), created by Cyril Abraham.

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Phyllis Calvert

Phyllis Hannah Murray-Hill (née Bickle; 18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002), known professionally as Phyllis Calvert, was an English film, stage and television actress.

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Pia Colombo

Pia Colombo (born Homblières, Aisne, France; 6 July 1934 – died 16 April 1986) was a French singer of Franco-Italian origin, been born Eliane Marie Amélie Pia Colombo who acted in radio, cinema and television between 1956 and 1981.

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Priest

A priest or priestess (feminine) is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.

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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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Raymond Hawkey

Raymond John "Ray" Hawkey (2 February 1930 – 22 August 2010) was an English graphic designer and author, based in London.

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Raymond Poincaré

Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served three times as 58th Prime Minister of France, and as President of France from 1913 to 1920.

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Red Wing (song)

"Red Wing" is a popular song written in 1907 with music by Kerry Mills and lyrics by Thurland Chattaway.

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Richard Attenborough

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014), was an English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician.

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Richard Eyre

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.

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Robert Flemyng

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_What_a_Lovely_War

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