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Last Holiday (1950 film), the Glossary

Last Holiday is a 1950 British black comedy film, featuring Alec Guinness in his sixth starring role.^[1]

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1950 black comedy films
1950 comedy-drama films
Films directed by Henry Cass
Films shot in Bedfordshire
Films shot in Devon
Films with screenplays by J. B. Priestley
Films with screenplays by J. Lee Thompson

A. D. Peters

Augustus Dudley Peters (1892–1973) was a British literary agent.

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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.

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Alicia Witt

Alicia Roanne Witt (born August 21, 1975) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist.

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Arthur Howard

Arthur Howard (born Arthur John Steiner; 18 January 1910 – 18 June 1995) was an English stage, film and television actor.

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Associated British Picture Corporation

Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production, distribution and exhibition company active from 1927 until 1970 when it was absorbed into EMI.

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Beatrice Campbell

Beatrice Campbell (31 July 1922 – 10 May 1979) was a Northern Irish stage and film actress, born in County Down, Northern Ireland,.

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Bernard Lee

John Bernard Lee (10 January 190816 January 1981) was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Brian Oulton

Brian Oulton (11 February 1908 – 13 April 1992) was an English character actor.

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Brian Worth

Brian Worth (30 July 1914 – 25 August 1978) was an English actor, known for Scrooge (1951), The Man in the White Suit (1951) and An Inspector Calls (1954).

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Campbell Cotts

Campbell Cotts (21 April 1902 – 19 February 1964) was a Cape Colony-born actor of British stage, film and television.

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David McCallum Sr.

David Fotheringham McCallum (26 March 1897 – 21 March 1972) was the Scottish leader (principal first violinist) of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Scottish National Orchestra.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Eric Maturin

Eric Bagot Maturin (30 May 1883 – 17 October 1957) was a British actor whose acting career began in 1905 and whose first film appearance was in 1919 during the era of silent films.

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Ernest Thesiger

Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, CBE (15 January 1879 – 14 January 1961) was an English stage and film actor.

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Esma Cannon

Esma Ellen Charlotte Littmann (née Cannon; 27 December 1905 – 18 October 1972), credited as Esme or Esma Cannon, was an Australian-born character actress and comedian, who moved to Britain in the early 1930s.

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Francis Chagrin

Francis Chagrin (born Alexander Paucker, 15 November 1905 – 10 November 1972), was a composer of film scores and popular orchestral music, as well as a conductor.

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Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, known to be one of the most prolific in film history.

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Grégoire Aslan

Grégoire Aslan (born Krikor Kaloust Aslanian; 28 March 1908 – 8 January 1982) was a Swiss-Armenian actor and musician.

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Heather Wilde

Heather Wilde is an English actress who was active in stage and screen productions in both England and the United States between the late 1930s and 1950s.

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Helen Cherry

Helen Mary Cherry (24 November 1915 – 27 September 2001) was an English stage, film and television actress.

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Henry Cass

Henry Cass (24 June 1903 – 15 March 1989) was a British director, particularly prolific in film in the horror and comedy genres.

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J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator.

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J. Lee Thompson

John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002) was an English film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Janus Films

Janus Films is an American film distribution company.

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Jean Colin

Jean Colin (24 March 1905 – 7 March 1989) was an English actress.

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Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano is a 1990 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

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Kay Walsh

Kathleen Walsh (15 November 1911 – 16 April 2005) was an English actress, dancer, and screenwriter.

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Last Holiday (2006 film)

Last Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Wayne Wang and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. Last Holiday (1950 film) and Last Holiday (2006 film) are films about death and films set in hotels.

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LL Cool J

James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper and actor.

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Lockwood West

Harry Lockwood West (28 July 1905 – 28 March 1989) was a British actor.

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Lord

Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler.

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Luton

Luton is a town and unitary authority with borough status in Bedfordshire, England, with a population at the 2021 census of 225,262.

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Meier Tzelniker

Meier Tzelniker (1 January 1894 – 8 October 1980) was a Yiddish-speaking actor born in Hotin County, Romania.

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Monica Kimick

Monica Kimick (1906–1982) was a British film editor.

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Moultrie Kelsall

Moultrie Rowe Kelsall (24 October 1904 – 13 February 1980): IMDB.com website.

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Muriel George

Muriel George (29 August 1883 – 22 October 1965) was an English singer and film actress.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Queen Latifah

Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, singer, and actress.

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Ronald Simpson (actor)

Ronald Maitland Simpson (1896–1957) was a British film, TV, and stage actor.

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Sid James

Sidney James (born Solomon Joel Cohen; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976) was a South African-British actor and comedian whose career encompassed radio, television, stage and screen.

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StudioCanal

StudioCanal S.A.S. (formerly known as Le Studio Canal+, Canal Plus, Canal+ Distribution, Canal+ D.A., and Canal+ Production, and also known as StudioCanal International) is a French film production and distribution company.

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Terminal illness

Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient.

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The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle is a 1926 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908).

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films".

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Timothy Hutton

Timothy Hutton (born August 16, 1960) is an American actor and film director.

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Torquay

Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay.

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VHS

The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).

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Welwyn Studios

Welwyn Studios was a British film studio located at Broadwater Road, Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire. Last Holiday (1950 film) and Welwyn Studios are films shot at Welwyn Studios.

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Wilfrid Hyde-White

Wilfrid Hyde-White (née Hyde White; 12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was an English actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Holiday_(1950_film)

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Last Holiday (1950 film), the Glossary

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See also

1950 black comedy films

1950 comedy-drama films

Films directed by Henry Cass

Films shot in Bedfordshire

Films shot in Devon

Films with screenplays by J. B. Priestley

Films with screenplays by J. Lee Thompson

References