Terry-Thomas

Terry-Thomas

출생 : 1911-07-14, Finchley, London, England, UK

사망 : 1990-01-08

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Terry-Thomas (1911–1990) was an English comic actor. He was famous for his portrayal of disreputable members of the upper classes.

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Terry-Thomas

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The 9th Wonder of the World:  The Making of 'Gorgo'
The Villain Ivan (archive footage)
Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
Phyllis Diller: Not Just Another Pretty Face
Self
Phyllis Diller’s brand of comedy is as timeless today as it was in the 1960s, when she became a regular on popular variety and talk shows. From her outrageous costumes to wildly teased hair, Diller was a pioneer among female comediennes, paving the way for future stars. Who can forget her hilarious housekeeping and marriage tips, her beleaguered husband Fang, her cackling laugh and self-deprecating sense of humor? Phyllis Diller: Not Just Another Pretty Face highlights some of her best routines. Special guest stars such as Don Rickles and Dean Martin make this a fun trip back in time.
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Self (archive footage)
A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Fever of 40!
Dr. Christopher
La isla de las cabezas
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dr. Mortimer
Director Paul Morrissey applies a hefty dose of humor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective story in this interpretation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Comedian Peter Cook takes on the role of brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, who's not so gifted here as he relegates much of the investigation of demonic dogs to his bumbling sidekick, Watson (Dudley Moore), while he spends time with his mother and searches for an assistant.
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Governor
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
The Last Appointment!
Archibald Sinclair Beachum
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 version, starring Albert Finney as the lusty hero, won four Oscars. Joan Collins does a great job as a Wicked Lady style highwaywoman.
Spanish Fly
Sir Percy de Courcy
British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives with a photographer and several gorgeous models.
Side by Side
Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs
The Cherry Picker
American V.I.P James Burn II finds his son James Burn III (Bob Sherman) leading a giant "sleep-in" that has taken over Windsor Castle. He hires Nancy (Lulu) to get him out of the castle and into work. With the help of her crazy eccentric father, (Wilfred Hyde-White) who believes in working day and night and producing nothing and uses a fantastic astro-telescope for casual bird watching, she does just that !
로빈 훗
Sir Hiss (voice)
용맹스런 사자왕 리차드가 십자군 전쟁에 나간 사이 교활한 존 왕자가 왕위를 차지한다. 존 왕자는 간사한 히스 경을 오른팔로 삼아 백성들로부터 무리하게 세금을 걷어들여 원성이 자자했다. 선량하고 힘없는 백성들에게 유일한 희망은 로빈 후드 뿐. 셔우드 숲 속에 사는 의적 로빈 후드와 그의 부하 리틀 존은 부자들의 금을 훔쳐다가 몰래 가난한 사람들에게 나누어주곤 한다. 어느 날 두 사람이 얘기를 나누고 있는데 돈 냄새가 물씬 풍겨온다. 존 왕자가 탄 황실 마차가 근처를 지나던 것. 집시 점쟁이 여인으로 분장한 로빈과 리틀 존은 한껏 왕자를 치켜올려주며 정신을 빼놓고는 반지와 황금, 의복 등을 모두 빼앗아 달아나는데...
The Vault of Horror
Arthur Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
I Love a Mystery
Gordon Elliott
Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show of the same name.
The Heroes
Major John Cooper
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Lombardo
The vengeful Doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
Colpo grosso… grossissimo… anzi probabile
Pierre Le Compte
The Special London Bridge Special
Bus Conductor Terry-Thomas
In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transported to the bridge's new location where he, befuddled, sings with other celebrities, has adventures and gets kidnapped by “the villain”.
복수의 화신 닥터 화이브
Dr. Longstreet
Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.
Atlantic Wall
Perry
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Twelve Plus One
Albert
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.
Arthur? Arthur!
Clennery Tubbs
The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity, that of a dashing, debonair womaniser.
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
2000 Years Later
Goodwyn
A satirical film on fads in the US. A TV host on a late night show tries to convince his viewers that they should return to Rome and Roman ways.
How Sweet It Is!
Gilbert Tilly
All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, all funny, vibrant and charming.
It's Your Move
Jerome
A criminal plots a bank robbery hinging on doubles of the employees.
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
H. William Homer
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, when she returns, she threatens to send George to jail for fraud, cause she didn't give her approval. George needing some fast bucks, decides to turn to an old cohort of his, William Homer but Willy's a little short. George then decides to steal the plans to a new drill, Pamela's suitor, Dudley Heath is working on. But when George gets the mumps, he can't make it to the meeting place and refuses to give Willy the plans unless he gives him the cash first. And the buyers won't give unless they see the merchandise first.
Seven Times Seven
Polizeiinspektor
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.
How to Kill 400 Duponts
Commissario Green
Dorellik, an Italian contract killer that lives on the French Riviera, accepts a job to kill everyone with the surname Dupont that lives in France for a rich customer which supposedly would allow him to obtain a large inheritance.
데인저: 디아볼릭
Minister of Finance
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.
Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose
Self
Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose is a 1968 American television special hosted by Princess Grace Kelly guiding the public through a tour of Monte Carlo. She encounters other celebrities such as Françoise Hardy, Terry-Thomas, Gilbert Bécaud, David Winters and his troupe the David Winters Dancers, who all perform musical numbers. We also meet her husband Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Ladislaus
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
Arabella
Hotel manager
A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother.
The Perils of Pauline
Sten Martin
Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Captain Sir Harry Washington-Smythe
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
가라데 킬러스
Constabler
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
A Guide for the Married Man
Technical Adviser (Harold aka Tiger)
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
파리대탈출
Sir Reginald Brook, aka 'Big Moustache'
1941년, 나치 점령하의 프랑스. 임무를 수행하고 돌아가던 영국 공군의 비행기가 독일군 대공포를 맞아 추락한다. 영국군 조종사 레지널드, 피터, 앨런은 낙하산을 타고 간신히 탈출해 목숨을 건진다. 셋은 도장업자 오귀스탱, 인형극을 하는 쥘리에트, 오케스트라 지휘자 스타니슬라스의 도움을 받게 되는데, 독일군 장교 아흐바흐는 이들을 붙잡기 위해 추격을 멈추지 않는다. 나치 점령기를 배경으로 한 코미디로, 오랜 세월 동안 깨지지 않은 흥행 기록을 세우기도 했다.
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
Lord Aldric / James
In this spoof of spy films, CIA agent, Kelly, is in Rio De Janeiro spying on a wealthy industrialist, David Ardonian, who secretly plans to turn the world sterile and repopulate it with his harem. UK spy, Susan Fleming, helps Kelly.
The Sandwich Man
Scout Master
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Munster, Go Home!
Freddie Munster
Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Freddie Munster, who throws tantrums because he wasn't named Lord Munster. An on-board romance had blossomed between Marilyn and Roger, but on land Marilyn discovers Roger's family holds a longstanding grudge against the Munsters.
The Daydreamer
Brig. Zachary Zilch, the First Tailor (voice)
In this hybrid of live-action and stop-motion animation, a young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina and The Emperor's New Clothes.
Our Man in Marrakesh
El Caid
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?
Top Crack
Charles
Italian comedy
The Wild Affair
Godfrey Deane
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is the right one. On her last day at work, her male colleagues don't miss a chance to comfort her... and flirt.
You Must Be Joking
Major Foskett
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
럭키 레이디
Sir Percy Ware-Armitage
1910년, 영국의 신문 재벌 론슬리는 영국 비행기의 우수성을 과시하기 위해 만파운드의 상금을 걸고 런던에서 파리까지의 '에어 레이스'를 연다. 그리고 그 대회애는 전세계에의 파일럿들이 참가한다. 그러나, 그들의 목적은 비행 시합에서의 우승보다는 론슬리의 딸을 차지하기 위한 것이었는데...
How to Murder Your Wife
Charles
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.
매드 매드 대소동
J. Algernon Hawthorne
사막의 고속도로를 맹스피드로 달리고 있던 차가 벼랑으로 떨어진다. 현장에 있었던 4대의 차로부터 5명의 남자가 도와주러 내려가지만 숨이 끊어지기 직전의 남자가 '주립공원에 35만달러의 현금이 묻혀있다'는 말을 남기고 직전의 이 말을 들은 이들은 눈색깔이 변하고 숨겨진 돈을 찾기위해 제각기 떠나게 되는데 식품운송사업에 실패한 휫치와 그의 아내. 치과의사와 그의 처, 극작가, 가재도구를 운반하던 사람들이 이들이다. 또한 영국육군중위가 가세하여 이 돈을 먼저 차지하기 위해 갖가지 방법을 동원해 나간다.
The Mouse on the Moon
Maurice Spender
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Kill or Cure
A private eye is hired to go undercover at a health farm, but before he can find out why his client is murdered.
더 원더풀 월드 오브 더 브라더스 그림
Ludwig (segment "The Singing Bone")
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
Operation Snatch
Lt. 'Piggy' Wigg
Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of the apes. When he detects that the animals' morale is slipping, he hatches a plan to go behind the German lines to "kidnap" a new ape for his charges to lift their spirits before the Germans find out about their condition and use it as propaganda.
Bachelor Flat
Professor Bruce Patterson
Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen goes on vacation, Bruce decides to stay at her apartment but is surprised by the arrival of Libby, Helen's 17-year-old daughter. Having never been told by Helen of this daughter, Bruce assumes she's another student. During her stay, Libby is noticed by an amorous neighbor, Mike.
The Bing Crosby Show
Self
Guests: Bob Hope, Marion Ryan, Dave King, Terry-Thomas, Shirley Bassey. Filmed on location in London, where Bing was filming Road to Hong Kong. Bing wanders the streets of London encountering his guests, including Bob Hope (in drag).
A Matter of WHO
Archibald Bannister
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
His and Hers
Reggie Blake
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious...
Make Mine Mink
Major Albert Rayne
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
스쿨 포 스카운드럴스
Raymond Delauney
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
아임 올 라이트 잭
Major Hitchcock
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
Too Many Crooks
Billy Gordon
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
Tom Thumb
Ivan
A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
Happy Is the Bride
Policeman
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
The Naked Truth
Lord Henry Mayley
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Capt. Romney Carlton-Ricketts
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
Lucky Jim
Bertrand Welch
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Brothers in Law
Alfred Green
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
그린 맨
Charles Boughtflower
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
프라이빗스 프로그레스
Major Hitchcock
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Melody Club
Freddy Forrester
Customers at the Melody Club are burgled while attending the the club. A detective investigates.
Helter Skelter
Himself
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Brass Monkey
Terry-Thomas
Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.
Date With a Dream
Terry
Four war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are still good together and form a successful nightclub act.
Copy Book Please
Presenter
This short post-war film was made to inform people how to address a letter correctly.
Quiet Wedding
Extra (uncredited)
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
For Freedom
News reader
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.
Take a Chance
Extra at Race Meeting (uncredited)
Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance
It's Love Again
Dancer (Extra) (uncredited)
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
다가올 세상
Man of the Future (uncredited)
SF 영화사를 통틀어 최고 걸작 중의 하나로 꼽히는 작품으로 당시에는 흥행에 실패했지만, 윌리엄 카메론 멘지스(William Cameron Menzies) 감독은 당대의 어떤 감독들보다 예술적 감각이 뛰어나다는 찬사를 들었다. H.G.웰즈의 원작을 영상으로 재구성한 솜씨가 매우 뛰어난 작품이다.이 영화의 줄거리는 제작 시점에서 몇 년 앞인 1940년 제2차 세계대전이 발발하는 것에서부터 시작한다. 그 뒤엔 1970년대의 어느 황폐한 마을의 모습이 등장과 함께 그 마을에서 벌어지는 권력투쟁이 묘사된다. 다시 장면이 바뀌어 서기 2036년, 앞에서 등장했던 마을이 평화롭고 풍요롭고 과학기술이 발달된 유토피아로 탈바꿈하여 나타난다. 그러나 그들은 통치자의 오만함과 사람들의 상상력 결핍이라는 문제를 안고 있는데...마지막 장면에서 한 쌍의 젊은 남녀가 좀 더 희망적인 사회를 건설하리라는 사람들의 기대를 안고 우주로 떠난다는 결말을 보여준다.
When Knights Were Bold
Soldier (uncredited)
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues...
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Extra (uncredited)
An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid.
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Man (uncredited)
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.