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No Funny Business is a British film of genre Comedy with Gertrude Lawrence
No Funny Business (1933)
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Add to a movie listNo Funny Business is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Laurence Olivier, Gertrude Lawrence, Jill Esmond and Edmund Breon. The film is a comedy of errors set in a divorce case. It was made at Ealing Studios. Olivier had returned to Britain after his career, following an initial move to Hollywood, had faltered.
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Yvonne et Edward Lane sont mariés depuis longtemps et s'ennuient l'un avec l'autre. Ils voudraient divorcer mais il faudrait prouver l'infidélité du conjoint. Sans le savoir, chacun d'eux va engager un détective destiné à jouer le rôle de l'amant ou de la maîtresse. Or aucun de ces détectives ne sait pas à quoi ressemble la personne qu'il-elle doit rencontrer...Actors
Gertrude Lawrence
(Yvonne Kane)
Laurence Olivier
(Clive Dering)
Jill Esmond
(Anne Moore)
Edmund Breon
(Edmond Kane)
Gibb McLaughlin
(Florey)
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