Second Best Bed is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Jane Baxter and Veronica Rose. The screenplay is by Ben Travers...
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made only one bequest to his wife, his "second-best bed with the furniture". There is no reference to the "best" bed, which would have been included in the...
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second best bed with the furniture". This may seem like a slight, but many historians contend that the second best bed was typically the marital bed,...
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insult to Anne, whereas others believe that the second-best bed would have been the matrimonial bed and therefore rich in significance. Shakespeare was...
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Bed bugs are parasitic insects from the genus Cimex, who are micropredators that feed on blood, usually at night. Their bites can result in a number of...
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John Hall and Thomas Quiney. The best-known passage of the will is the bequest to the wife of his "second best bed". The significance of this phrase...
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A bed is an item of furniture that is used as a place to sleep, rest, and relax. Most modern beds consist of a soft, cushioned mattress on a bed frame...
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ultimately allows her husband to sleep with her in the family's second-best bed (the best bed is reserved for guests). Having fallen back in love with Anne...
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Verse Drama Award. He next penned the Shakespearian-themed comedy The Second Best Bed, produced on Broadway in 1946. The highly acclaimed drama led to him...
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from Shakespeare's will regarding his "second-best bed". Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not...
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York (1937) as Spurgeon Sunset in Vienna (1937) as Turk Outside Café Second Best Bed (1938) as Tennis match spectator (uncredited) Marie Antoinette (1938)...
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alphabet. Yeatman then states that the last insertion regarding the second-best bed, is in a handwriting that "exactly corresponds with the signature below...
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Boys Will Be Girls (1937) and The Last Curtain (1938). She was in Second Best Bed (1938), a Tom Walls farce; The Last Barricade (1938); Sexton Blake...
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An infant bed (commonly called a cot in British English, and, in American English, a crib, or far less commonly, stock) is a small bed especially for infants...
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as The Public Life of Henry the Ninth (1935), the romantic comedy Second Best Bed (1939) and the Victorian set comedy Riding High (1939). In 1939, she...
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(1501–1571) his second best bed, situated at the home of his second wife at Codrington, near Dyrham: "Item I geve my second best bed with blanketts coverled...
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Adela Swayle Paradise for Two (1937) as Mme. Bernard (uncredited) Second Best Bed (1938) as Mrs. Mather Strange Boarders (1938) as Miss Pitter Prison...
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(1947) Susie Steps Out (1946) Little Iodine (1946) Old Iron (1938) Second Best Bed (1938) The Lilac Domino (1937) Forbidden Music (1936) "20 Oct 1954...
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1981. Fanny Peculiar, Keith Waterhouse, London: Michael Joseph, 1983. Second Best Bed, Fenton Bresler, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1983. Merde! The real...
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Farewell Again (1937) - Moore The Man Who Made Diamonds (1937) - Tompkins Second Best Bed (1938) - Stanley Hurley Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (1938) - Fenner Double...
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Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (redirect from Bed-Stuy)
Bedford–Stuyvesant (/ˈbɛdfərd ˈstaɪvəsənt/), colloquially known as Bed–Stuy, is a neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of...
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"California King Bed" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her fifth studio album, Loud (2010). The song was written and produced by Andrew Harr...
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sister-in-law will inherit her prized house, while she is deeded the second best bed. The order of William's estate can only be punishment for their son's...
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its 75th anniversary by naming the Best Australian Songs of all time, as decided by a 100 strong industry panel. "Beds Are Burning" was declared third behind...
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(1935) Fighting Stock (1935) Once in a Million (1936) For Valour (1937) Second Best Bed (1938) Old Iron (1938) Warn That Man (1943) Death in High Heels (1947)...
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Ecstasy (1937) - Landlord The Ticket of Leave Man (1937) - Maltby Second Best Bed (1938) - Torceston Magistrate (uncredited) Special Edition (1938) -...
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television credits included Danger Man, Dad's Army and Oh, Brother!. Second Best Bed (1938) - Georges Dubonnet Over the Moon (1939) - Michel The Silent...
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The Divorce of Lady X (1938) - Peters - Club Attendant (uncredited) Second Best Bed (1938) - Murdock The Drum (1938) - Sgt. Major Kernel (uncredited) The...
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hour-long compilation of highlights of the first and second series Wot a Palaver − The Best of In Bed with Medinner broadcast by London-area ITV on 2 August...
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Bed bugs, or Cimicidae, are small parasitic insects. The term usually refers to species that prefer to feed on human blood. Early detection and treatment...
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