• The Belles of St Trinian's is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder, co-written by Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and starring Alastair Sim...
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  • Ronald Searle and set in St Trinian's School. The first five films form a series, starting with The Belles of St. Trinian's in 1954, with sequels in 1957...
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  • St Trinian's is a British gag cartoon comic strip series, created and drawn by Ronald Searle from 1946 until 1952. The cartoons all centre on a boarding...
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  • Wattis; the film also includes a brief cameo of Alastair Sim, reprising his lead role in the 1954 film, The Belles of St. Trinian's. Inspired by the St Trinian's...
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  • character from the St. Trinian's series of films who first appears in the 1954 The Belles of St Trinian's and who may also be a spiv. The term refers to...
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    Alastair Sim (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Danger (1946), Hue and Cry (1947), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Scrooge (1951), The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) and An Inspector Calls (1954)...
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    Hermione Baddeley (category English expatriate actresses in the United States)
    Scrooge (both 1951), The Pickwick Papers (1952), The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), Mary Poppins (as Ellen, the maidservant), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown...
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  • appearance was in the 1954 film The Belles of St Trinian's, in which she played Arabella. She landed her first television role in 1957 with The Benny Hill Show...
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    Barbara Windsor (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    in The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) while studying shipping management at Bow Technical College. She received a BAFTA Award nomination for the film...
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    Shirley Eaton (category Actors from the London Borough of Barnet)
    She appeared in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), two of the "Doctor" film series, three early Carry On films and worked with the Crazy Gang in Life...
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    inspiration for St Trinian's", The Herald, 23 October 2009 Stephen Goodwin (23 October 1998), "Revealed: belles of the real St Trinians", The Independent...
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    Beryl Reid (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    and the 1982 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Smiley's People. Her film appearances included The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954), The Killing of Sister...
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  • the future Mrs Polly in The History of Mr. Polly and in the first of the St Trinian's films The Belles of St. Trinian's, and was active in TV at the time...
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  • Malcolm Arnold (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    and The Roots of Heaven (1958). He also wrote the music for the entire series of St Trinian's films, including The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), which...
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  • Joan Sims (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    appeared as Miss Dawn in The Belles of St. Trinian's, and made an appearance in Doctor in the House, opposite Dirk Bogarde as the sexually repressed Nurse...
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  • 'Badge' Badger For Better, for Worse (1954) as The Foreman The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) as Benny The Crowded Day (1954) as Nightwatchman Orders Are...
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  • Richard Wattis (category Military personnel from the West Midlands (county))
    (The Belles of St. Trinian's, Blue Murder at St Trinian's, and The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery) as Manton Bassett, a civil servant who was the Deputy...
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  • Searle's Belles of St. Trinians cartoons. St. Lemons was essentially the girls' boarding-school equivalent of The Bash Street Kids – the "belles" all conforming...
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  • George Cole (actor) (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    known for playing Arthur Daley in the long-running ITV comedy-drama show Minder and Flash Harry in the early St Trinian's films. Cole was born in Tooting...
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  • Damaris Hayman (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
    repertory work in the theatre, Hayman made her film début in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) in an uncredited role as a sixth former. The Telegraph obituary...
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    Alastair Sim on stage and screen (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Sim: The star of Scrooge and The Belles of St Trinian's. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5372-9. Wearing, J. P. (2014). The London...
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    Moiya Kelly (category Actors from the London Borough of Islington)
    of the original production was filmed with the original cast and aired on the BBC on March 16, 1953. Kelly was an extra in the films The Belles of St...
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  • Michael Ripper (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
    trainer in The Belles of St. Trinian's and the liftman in the next three of the St. Trinian's comedies, and on television for his role as Thomas the chauffeur...
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  • Sim (1900–1976), Green for Danger, The Belles of St Trinian's Eric Sykes (1923–2012) Terry Thomas (1911–1990), The Green Man, Private's Progress, Brothers...
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    Fritton in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) and Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957). He played the role straight; no direct joke about the actor's true...
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  • Dilys Laye (category Actors from the London Borough of Haringey)
    sixth-former in The Belles of St Trinian's and Blue Murder at St Trinian's and Jasmine Hatchet in Doctor at Large in 1957. One of the few failures of Laye's stage...
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  • out of her window every few minutes. Way died in London, England on 13 March 1993. The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) – Sixth Former (uncredited) The Hands...
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    Killing of Sister George at St Martin's in 1966. Melly appeared in British films, including the comedy The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) and the Hammer...
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    Spiv (category Crime in the United Kingdom)
    The image of the spiv was used for the character Flash Harry played by George Cole in the film The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) and subsequent St Trinian's...
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  • Eric Pohlmann (category Austrian expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    lecherous Arab sheikh in The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954), as "The Fat Man" in Carry On Spying (1964) and in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975). Pohlmann...
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