The Aldwych farces were a series of twelve stage farces presented at the Aldwych Theatre, London, nearly continuously from 1923 to 1933. All but three...
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Ralph Lynn (section Aldwych farces)
60-year career, and is best remembered for playing comedy parts in the Aldwych farces first on stage and then in film. Lynn became an actor at the age of...
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of twelve farces, known as the Aldwych farces, most of which were written by Ben Travers. Members of the regular company for these farces included Ralph...
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Ben Travers (category Aldwych farce)
is most notable for his long-running series of farces first staged in the 1920s and 1930s at the Aldwych Theatre. Many of these were made into films and...
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tradition of British farce, following the Aldwych farces, which played at the Aldwych Theatre between 1924 and 1933. The five farces were as follows: Rix...
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Robertson Hare (category Aldwych farce)
1891 – 25 January 1979) was an English actor, who came to fame in the Aldwych farces. He is remembered by more recent audiences for his performances as the...
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Vienna. Some of the English Aldwych farces by Ben Travers which were popular in the 1920s and 1930s have aspects of "bedroom farce", e.g. A Cuckoo in the Nest...
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Winifred Shotter (category Aldwych farce)
1996) was an English actress best known for her appearances in the Aldwych farces of the 1920s and early 1930s. Initially a singer and dancer in the ensembles...
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Thark (play) (category Aldwych farce)
a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the fourth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented...
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Rookery Nook is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers based on his own 1923 novel. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the third...
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Tom Walls (category Aldwych farce)
producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations...
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A Cuckoo in the Nest (category Aldwych farce)
a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the second in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented...
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Yvonne Arnaud (category Aldwych farce)
and drama around 1920 and was one of the players in the second of the Aldwych farces, A Cuckoo in the Nest, a hit in 1925. She also had dramatic roles and...
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directed by or starring her father-in-law Tom Walls, including several Aldwych Farce adaptations. Leave It to Smith (1933) A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933) Turkey...
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Rookery Nook (film) (category Aldwych farce)
is a 1930 film farce, directed by Tom Walls, with a script by Ben Travers. It is a screen adaptation of the original 1926 Aldwych farce of the same title...
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Fifty-Fifty (play) (category Aldwych farce)
It was the penultimate work of the series of Aldwych farces that ran nearly continuously at the Aldwych Theatre in London from 1923 to 1933. The play...
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stage role of Leonora Stafford in the film version of the Ben Travers' Aldwych farce Dirty Work with Robertson Hare and Ralph Lynn and appeared in Herbert...
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A Bit of a Test (category Aldwych farce)
A Bit of a Test is a farce by Ben Travers. It was the last, and least successful, of the series of twelve Aldwych farces that ran in uninterrupted succession...
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Rookery Nook (1930), an Aldwych farce based on the play by Ben Travers and directed by Tom Walls. It led to a series of Aldwych farces from Travers and Walls...
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Dirty Work (play) (category Aldwych farce)
Dirty Work is a farce by Ben Travers. It was one of the series of twelve Aldwych farces that ran in uninterrupted succession at the Aldwych Theatre in London...
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A Cup of Kindness (play) (category Aldwych farce)
a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the sixth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented...
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Plunder (play) (category Aldwych farce)
a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the fifth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented...
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Mary Brough (category Aldwych farce)
theatre, silent films and early talkies, including eleven of the twelve Aldwych farces of the 1920s and early 1930s. The daughter of a well-known actor, Lionel...
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Churchill and Martita Hunt. The cast included members of the regular Aldwych Farce company. A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom...
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Thark (film) (category Aldwych farce)
Robertson Hare. The film is a screen adaptation of the original 1927 Aldwych farce play Thark. It was made at British and Dominion's Elstree Studios. Mrs...
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Turkey Time (1970 film) (category Aldwych farce)
The BBC's production was based on the play Turkey Time, one of the Aldwych farces, by Ben Travers. First transmitted by the BBC on 3 October 1970, Turkey...
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Farces featuring Arthur Lowe and Richard Briers. It was the only one of seven episodes not be based on one of the playwright's pre-war Aldwych Farces...
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was a stand-alone adaptation of a farce by Ben Travers. The first six episodes were adaptations of Aldwych Farces beginning with Rookery Nook while the...
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Turkey Time (play) (category Aldwych farce)
Turkey Time is a farce by Ben Travers. It was one of the series of Aldwych farces that ran nearly continuously at the Aldwych Theatre in London from 1923...
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Whitehall Theatre team passing the record held by the Aldwych Theatre team. The Aldwych farces ran for 10 years, seven months and four days, while Rix...
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