The Will Hay film Boys Will Be Boys ( 1935 ) was set at Morton's Narkover school.

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.

* 1888 – Will Hay, English comedian and actor ( d. 1949 )

Music hall also proved influential in comedy films of this period, and a number of popular personalities emerged, including George Formby, Gracie Fields, Jessie Matthews and Will Hay.

* April 18 – Will Hay, English comedian and actor ( b. 1888 )

* December 6 – Will Hay, British actor and comedian ( d. 1949 )

* Hay, Harry, with Will Roscoe ( ed.

British film star Will Hay was a familiar face in Falmouth in 1935 whilst filming his comedy Windbag the Sailor.

Some of the best known British film comedy stars include Will Hay, George Formby, Sir Norman Wisdom, Sir Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and the Monty Python team.

The 1930s / 40s British film, radio and music hall comedian Will Hay ( 1888 – 1949 ) lived at 7 Eddystone Road and later 40 Merritt Road, Crofton Park as a child in the late 1890s.

" In English variety halls ( Britain's equivalent of vaudeville theatres ), comedian Will Hay performed a routine in the early 1930s ( and possibly earlier ) as a schoolmaster interviewing a schoolboy named Howe who came from Ware but now lives in Wye.

There he met and became lovers with fellow actor Will Geer, whom Hay credited as his political mentor.

In 1939, it was used as a location for the Will Hay film, Ask a Policeman.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Ealing produced many comedies with stars such as Gracie Fields, George Formby, Stanley Holloway and Will Hay, who had established their reputations in other spheres of entertainment.

Both The Magistrate and Dandy Dick were made into films starring Will Hay.

* The climatic scene in the Big Ben clock tower pays homage to the 1978 film The Thirty Nine Steps, which was itself inspired by a scene in the 1943 Will Hay comedy My Learned Friend.

Even so, the music hall gave rise to such major stars as George Formby, Gracie Fields, Max Miller, Will Hay, and Flanagan and Allen during this period.

* Will Hay ( 1888 – 1949 )

* Will Hay ( comedy actor ) lived in Crofton Park

In 1982, they appeared in a feature film, The Boys in Blue, based loosely on the classic Will Hay film, Ask a Policeman.

Many scenes from the Will Hay comedy film Oh, Mr Porter!

* Will Hay, comedian and actor, lived in Belper while performing locally in the 1920s

William Thomson " Will " Hay ( 6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949 ) was an English comedian, actor, film director and amateur astronomer.

Her most famous film was Triumph of the Will, a documentary film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the National Socialist, or Nazi, Party.

Several crew members wore protest t-shirts with slogans such as " Yes Guvnor, my ass " and " Will Rogers never met Ridley Scott " in reference to Will Rogers's most famous quotation, " I never met a man I didn't like ".

In 1985, Will Vinton and his team released an ambitious feature film in stop motion called " The Adventures Of Mark Twain " based on the life and works of the famous American author.

* February 24 – Doris Day records her most famous song: Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be ).

When a goal is scored by Feyenoord in their home matches the song I Will Survive, covered by the Hermes House Band, but made famous by Gloria Gaynor in the 1970s is played.

*" Evergreen " ( Westlife song ), a 2001 song originally by Westlife, made famous by Will Young

Will have devotion to preceptors, will be scholarly and well informed, will be of ministerial cadre, will be famous & will be highly moral and ethical.

Will be equivalent to a lord, will be famous with comforts, vehicles and children, will be virtuous, scholarly and fortunate.

In 1897 a crowd of 4, 000 gathered to watch a winning harness racing horse bred by noted Chicago theater manager Will J. Davis and his famous wife, contralto Jessie Bartlett Davis.

Clem Rogers, father of the famous Will Rogers, who, along with his family, is buried at the Will Rogers Memorial, moved to the county in 1856.

A famous phrase of the day was " Will the last person out of Seattle please turn off the lights?

The Michigan Maritime Museum, host of the tall ship Friends Good Will, is perhaps its most famous.

Later that year, Webb was in the all-star revue Ned Wayburn's Town Topics, which boasted 117 famous performers, including Will Rogers, listed in the Century Theatre opening night program of September 23, 1915.

Many films were made to commemorate these events, the most famous of which is Triumph of the Will.

One night he got encouragement to sing professionally from a customer, the famous humorist and wit, Will Rogers, who had heard Autry singing.

William Prince of Orange ( afterwards King William III of Great Britain & Ireland ) landed in Brixham with his mainly Dutch army, on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, and issued his famous declaration " The Liberties of England and The Protestant Religion I Will Maintain ".

William Prince of Orange ( afterwards King William III ) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, and issued his famous declaration " The Liberties of England and The Protestant Religion I Will Maintain ".

As well, he performed with many of the most famous stars of the day such as Bette Davis ( The Cabin in the Cotton ), Jeanette MacDonald, Tyrone Power, Edward G. Robinson, and Will Rogers.

A famous 17th century jig called Kemp's Jig was named after Will Kempe and was published in the first book of John Playford's The English Dancing Master of 1651.

Anna invites Will to her room at the Ritz, but her American boyfriend, a famous film star named Jeff King ( an uncredited cameo by Alec Baldwin ), has arrived unexpectedly.

His famous miscue is also referenced in the films Good Will Hunting, Rounders and Fever Pitch, the episode Brother's Little Helper of The Simpsons, and the musical Johnny Baseball.