What "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" author also wrote a comedy that premiered in London in 1938?
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Dear Octopus Dear Octopus is a comedy by the playwright and novelist Dodie Smith. It opened at the Queen's Theatre, London on 15 September 1938. On the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 the run was halted after 373 performances; after a spell in the provinces in early 1940 the play was brought back to London and played two further runs there until 31 August 1940.
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Dodie Smith Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" (1956). Other works include "I Capture the Castle" (1948), and "The Starlight Barking" (1967). "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel "I Capture the Castle" was adapted into a 2003 movie version. "I Capture the Castle" was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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Me and My Pal (1939 film) Me and My Pal is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Dave Willis, Pat Kirkwood and George Moon. The screenplay concerns two lorry drivers who become mixed up with criminals who trick them into an insurance swindle that ends up with them being sent to prison.
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Peter Dalle Dan Peter Dalle (born 5 December 1956) is a Swedish actor, comedian, writer and film director. Dalle grew up in Täby outside Stockholm. He is most famous for "Lorry". Most recently he wrote and directed a 1939-set thriller "En fiende att dö för" (An Enemy To Die For), which had its world premiere in March 2012 in Stockholm.
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Jimmy Jewel James Arthur Thomas Jewel Marsh (4 December 1909 – 3 December 1995), known professionally as Jimmy Jewel, was an English comedian and actor who enjoyed a long career in stage, radio, television and film productions, including a 32-year partnership with his cousin Ben Warriss.
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Two Merry Monarchs Two Merry Monarchs is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with a book by Arthur Anderson and George Levy, lyrics by Anderson and Hartley Carrick, and music by Orlando Morgan. It opened at the Savoy Theatre in London on 10 March 1910, under the management of C. H. Workman, and ran there for 43 performances. It starred Workman, Robert Whyte Jr., Lennox Pawle, Daisy le Hay and Roland Cunningham. The work was the last piece that could be considered a Savoy opera.
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The Masque of Kings (play) The Masque of Kings is a 1936 three-act drama written by Maxwell Anderson. It was
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Stanley Lupino Stanley Lupino (15 June 1893 – 10 June 1942) was an English actor, dancer, singer, librettist, director and short story writer, who began life as Stanley Richard Lupino Hook. During the 1930s, Lupino appeared in a successful series of musical comedy films, often based on his already popular stage shows.
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Tommy Cannon Thomas Derbyshire, known professionally as Tommy Cannon (born 27 June 1938), is an English comedian and singer. He is best knows as the straight man of comedy double act Cannon and Ball, along with Bobby Ball. He is most well known for the show "The Cannon and Ball Show".
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I Capture the Castle I Capture the Castle is the first novel by the British author Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley (also British and a conscientious objector) were living in California. She longed for home and wrote of a happier time, unspecified in the novel apart from a reference to living in the 1930s. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for writing the children's classic "The Hundred and One Dalmatians".
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Roderick Cook Roderick Cook (9 February 1932 – 17 August 1990) was an English playwright, writer, theatre director and actor of stage, television and film. Cook is known for creating, directing and starring in the musical review "Oh, Coward!" and portraying Count Von Strack in the Oscar-winning film "Amadeus".
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Banana Ridge (play) Banana Ridge is a farce by Ben Travers. It opened at the Strand Theatre on 27 April 1938 and ran for 291 performances.
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Hollywood Pinafore Hollywood Pinafore, or The Lad Who Loved a Salary is a musical comedy in two acts by George S. Kaufman, with music by Arthur Sullivan, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore". It opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on May 31, 1945, and closed on July 14, 1945 after 52 performances. It was directed by Kaufman himself and starred Shirley Booth, Victor Moore, George Rasely, and William Gaxton. The adaptation transplants the maritime satire of the original "Pinafore" to a satire of the glamorous world of 1940s Hollywood film making, but Sullivan's score is retained with minor adaptations.
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Philip King (playwright) Philip King (30 October 1904 – 9 February 1979) was an English playwright and actor, born in Yorkshire. He is best known as the author of the farce "See How They Run" (1944). He lived in Brighton and many of his plays were first produced in nearby Worthing. He continued to act throughout his writing career, often appearing in his own plays.
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Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone Janet Grahame Johnstone (1 June 1928 – 1979) and Anne Grahame Johnstone (1 June 1928 – 25 May 1998) were twin sisters and British children's book illustrators best known for their delicate, detailed prolific artwork and for illustrating Dodie Smith's classic book "The Hundred and One Dalmatians".
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Stephen Fry bibliography and filmography Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", and the duo also played the title roles in "Jeeves and Wooster". Fry played the lead in the film "Wilde", was Melchett in the "Blackadder" television series and is the host of celebrity comedy trivia show, "QI". He has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and three autobiographies, "Moab Is My Washpot", "", and "More Fool Me: A Memoir".
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Lionel Monckton Lionel John Alexander Monckton (18 December 1861 – 15 February 1924) was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He became Britain's most popular composer of Edwardian musical comedy in the early years of the 20th century.
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Bob Griffiths (writer) Bob Griffiths (Henry Robert Griffiths) (born April 16, 1938) is an author, playwright, and professional speaker.
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Every Man out of His Humour Every Man out of His Humour is a satirical comedy written by English playwright Ben Jonson, acted in 1599 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It is a conceptual sequel to his 1598 comedy "Every Man in His Humour". It was much less successful on stage than its predecessor, though it was published in quarto three times in 1600 alone; it was also performed at Court on 8 January 1605.
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Jonathan Miller Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specialising in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe" with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.
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Careless Rapture Careless Rapture is a 'musical play' by the Welsh composer Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall. It premiered on 11 September 1936 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It ran for 295 performances, a relatively modest success given Novello's other major successes.
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David Henry Wilson David Henry Wilson (1937, London - ) is an English writer. As an author he is best known for his children's stories such as the "Jeremy James" series. Wilson has also had a number of plays produced in the United Kingdom, both for children and adults. He is also the author of "The Coachman Rat" (1989), a satirical novel based on the Cinderella story.