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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    adding, "Even that is an inside casting joke: Mr. Chase, who is farcically loopy and delightful in the pilot.” In 2010, Chase appeared in an online Vacation...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 2018). "Cox's CBS station in Seattle blacked out for Frontier Fios customers". Fierce Cable. Questex LLC. Retrieved January 4, 2018. "Cox Media Group...
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    Internet Movie Database The other two were Box & Cox by John Maddison Morton and John John, Sir John and Tib by John Heywood. Stiller, p. 163 Short Plays...
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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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    John Baldwin Buckstone (category People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan)
    London theatres, among them the Lyceum, where he was Box at the first representation of Box and Cox, by John Maddison Morton, in 1847. There he also created...
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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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    (1991–), and has acted in numerous television shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, and NewsRadio. From 2012 to 2015 he starred in the sitcom Mr. Box Office...
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    short-subject films by Columbia Pictures. Their hallmark styles were physical, farce, and slapstick comedy. Six total Stooges appeared over the act's run (with...
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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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    Archived from the original on December 25, 2020. Retrieved July 13, 2020. "Farce of the Penguins". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on August...
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  • 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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  • 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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    reported as, "Ah, non ..." Also reported as, "It is. But not as hard as farce",: 196  and as "Yes, it's tough, but it's not as tough as doing comedy",: 41 ...
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    reputation for pranking, and met Wally Cox, with whom he remained friends until Cox's death in 1973. In 1936, his parents separated and he and his siblings moved...
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    called the incident "a drama that seemed to blend tragedy with elements of farce". Phillip Knightley called it the "most significant event in modern maritime...
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