Box and Cox is a one act farce by John Maddison Morton. It is based on a French one-act vaudeville, Frisette, which had been produced in Paris in 1846...
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Box and Cox may refer to: Box and Cox (farce), a comic play by John Maddison Morton first produced in 1847 Box and Cox Publications, a London music publisher...
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by F. C. Burnand and music by Arthur Sullivan, based on the 1847 farce Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton. It was Sullivan's first successful comic...
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Burn After Reading (section Box office)
film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osborne Cox (John Malkovich), whose misplaced...
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John Maddison Morton (category English male dramatists and playwrights)
who specialised in one-act farces. His most famous farce was Box and Cox (1847). He also wrote comic dramas, pantomimes and other theatrical pieces. Morton...
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Man is a 1967 American bedroom-farce comedy film directed by Gene Kelly and starring Walter Matthau, Robert Morse and Inger Stevens. It features many...
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F. C. Burnand (category People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan)
(1863) and The Latest Edition of Black-Eyed Susan; or, the Little Bill that Was Taken Up (1866). Also in 1866, he adapted the popular farce Box and Cox as...
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Private's Progress (category British black-and-white films)
writing and direction choose the less demanding level of affable farce. The experiences of Windrush are not related to anything outside himself; and since...
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John Howard (American actor) (redirect from John R. Cox, Jr.)
Richard Cox Jr.; April 14, 1913 – February 19, 1995) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his roles in the films Lost Horizon (1937) and The Philadelphia...
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Brian Rix (section Honours and awards)
a record-breaking sequence of long-running farces on the London stage, including Dry Rot, Simple Spymen and One for the Pot. His one-night TV shows made...
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he had done before, and that he 'had the concept of creating a farce up to a certain point, and then instead of continuing the farce, to make a turn to...
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Going, is a 2014 American black comedy drama film directed by Courteney Cox, in her second directorial effort, from a screenplay written by David Flebotte...
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Two-Way Stretch (category British black-and-white films)
Robert Day and starring Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries and Bernard Cribbins. The screenplay is by Vivian Cox, John Warren and Len Heath...
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Flags of Our Fathers (film) (section Box office)
drive as a farce. The men are reprimanded by Bud Gerber of the Treasury Department, who tells them that the country cannot afford the war and if the bond...
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The 51st State (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
newspaper called the film "a farce", giving the film one out of four stars, and particularly negative comments on the film's content and script. Generally positive...
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List of American films of 2007 (section Box office)
American films released in 2007, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: List of 2007 box office number-one films in the United States 2007...
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the Ray Cooney farce - theatre tickets and information". www.thisistheatre.com. Gussow, Mel (8 March 1989). "Review/Theater; A Farce in the British Tradition...
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(including some ill-placed whimsy with a gopher puppet) and collapses somewhere between sitcom and sketch farce." Vincent Canby gave it a mixed review in The New...
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Clue (film) (section Box office)
Retrieved August 5, 2024. That a high-concept, fast-talking farce based on a board game was a box office bomb in 1985 is no huge mystery. But figuring out...
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Manchester by the Sea (film) (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
dialogue, and the near-farcical frequency with which things go wrong." Along those same lines, critic Steven Mears called the film "a study of grief and reticence...
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Chevy Chase (section Early life and education)
is farcically loopy and delightful in the pilot.” Throughout the filming of Community seasons one through four, Chase became increasingly angry and uncomfortable...
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Heathers (section Box office)
turns the otherwise serious high school business of popularity into a farce, and that is exactly what films of the ’90s continued to do with the roles...
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"Teacher") and an EP of four of Cox's songs. Both projects remain unreleased. Bevan left to concentrate on her own music in July 2011 and Cox, Smith and Spiers...
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farce seems to be the general idea, but perhaps Eastwood should have borrowed the director and writers who helped shape 'Smokey and the Bandit' and 'Hooper'...
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gets his head stuck in a can and Bill tries many ways to help him out. Featured cartoons : Snow Business (1953), Tour De Farce (1967), Officer Pooch (1941)...
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Retrieved February 20, 2016. Canby, Vincent (October 5, 1984). "SCI-FI FARCE, 'BUCKAROO BONZAI'". The New York Times. Retrieved January 25, 2022. Thomas...
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admiration and pity cancel each other, and we are left only with the possibility of farce." Paul Clinton of CNN praised Hilary Swank and Charles Shyer's...
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Space Oddity (section Background and writing)
space thing, it has been dehumanized, so I wrote a song-farce about it, to try and relate science and human emotion. I suppose it's an antidote to space fever...
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review wrote, "What makes Hat more than just a foul-mouthed, fast-moving farce is that Mr. Guirgis's real subject turns out to be moral relativism. The...
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Elliot Richardson (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Then As Farce". RealClearPolitics.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2018. Retrieved June 22, 2017. "Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training...
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