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  • Naiyaandi (category 2013 romantic comedy films)
    draft comedies we’ve had in recent times". The Times of India gave 2.75 out of 5 stars and wrote "Naiyandi is a leisurely-paced film, a genteel comedy set...
    20 KB (1,692 words) - 17:42, 16 November 2024
  • Ghost Story begins somewhat less auspiciously as a slightly strained genteel comedy of manners. The bumbling good humour of Talbot colliding with the more...
    6 KB (747 words) - 16:29, 12 September 2024
  • scripts written for Tony Hancock by comedy writer Larry Stephens as The Lost Hancocks: Vacant Lot. The "genteel comedy" was described as "wonderful" by the...
    16 KB (1,491 words) - 14:06, 14 October 2024
  • recalled Daly had a favourite pink suit in which he played all his genteel comedy characters; when about to appear with him in Know Your Own Mind, Bernard...
    75 KB (11,463 words) - 20:43, 9 May 2024
  • The Beaux' Stratagem (category Restoration comedy)
    Stratagem is one of the last Restoration comedies, before the genre was replaced by a new style of more genteel comedy. In a few years, The Beaux' Stratagem...
    15 KB (2,303 words) - 02:25, 28 December 2023
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    working-class feistiness and bluntly profane vocabulary initially repel the genteel older woman." She received her first Screen Actors Guild award nomination...
    45 KB (4,168 words) - 03:18, 9 November 2024
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    and at times startlingly brutal, the film will alienate those who seek genteel fare at the art house. But its edgy integrity and distinctive atmosphere...
    42 KB (2,995 words) - 07:47, 17 November 2024
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    as allowable and even godly. The first act ends with both groups, the genteel Overdos and the raffish Littlewits, headed for the fair. The fair propels...
    16 KB (2,206 words) - 05:17, 22 May 2024
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    Bath stage, and filled many parts there, extending to 'tragedy, genteel comedy, low comedy, and old men and country boys in farces and operas,' a range of...
    6 KB (878 words) - 02:49, 22 September 2024
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    It can be taken for granted that this will be a treat in the way of genteel comedy. Shaw's years of popular and critical success on the vaudeville stage...
    53 KB (6,820 words) - 21:33, 13 August 2024
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    role in the British comedy A Fish Called Wanda, where he played a painfully inept American ex-CIA thug opposite John Cleese's genteel British barrister...
    31 KB (3,035 words) - 17:55, 10 November 2024
  • I Capture the Castle (film) (category 2003 romantic comedy films)
    Cassandra Mortmain, and her eccentric family, struggling to survive in genteel poverty in a decaying English castle. The characters include her father...
    5 KB (404 words) - 07:37, 16 August 2024
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    Hugh Grant (category Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe (film) winners)
    30 May 2024. Retrieved 25 June 2024. "'Heretic' Review: Hugh Grant Is Genteelly Terrifying as a Creep Hell-Bent on Converting Others to His 'One True...
    137 KB (13,994 words) - 06:21, 17 November 2024
  • Wish You Were Here (1987 film) (category 1980s coming-of-age comedy-drama films)
    end of the film, she insults her lover and denounces her father in the genteel tea room where she works as a waitress - are as entertaining as they are...
    14 KB (1,370 words) - 17:49, 8 September 2024
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    series Rocket Boys. Journalist Anuj Kumar of The Hindu opined, "As the genteel but determined Sarabhai, Ishwak Singh proves to be an effective foil to...
    12 KB (796 words) - 15:15, 14 November 2024
  • passions'. He was, in his youth, a fashionable exponent of lovers in genteel comedy, but forfeited those characters through indolence and love of pleasure...
    8 KB (1,159 words) - 00:22, 25 July 2024
  • Hinge and Bracket (category BBC Radio comedy programmes)
    performing with Ivor Novello and Noël Coward. Their characters evoked a genteel English inter-war world and their stage act was frequently interspersed...
    17 KB (1,655 words) - 15:30, 19 October 2024
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    25 October 2018. "Brindhavanam Review {3/5}: Radha Mohan is known for genteel films and Brindhavanam is no exception". The Times of India. "Brindhavanam...
    46 KB (3,714 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2024
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    Drawing room comedy typically features wit and verbal banter among wealthy, leisured, genteel, upper class characters. Drawing room comedy is also sometimes...
    8 KB (1,122 words) - 02:09, 12 July 2024
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    some stock attributes." Polly Welts Kaufman shows that the schoolma'am's "genteel poverty, unbending morality, education, and independent ways make her character...
    14 KB (1,719 words) - 21:53, 9 October 2024
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