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This is a list of comedy films released in the 1940s.
| Comedy films |
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| Lists |
| Before 1920 |
| 1920s |
| 1930s |
| 1940s |
| 1950s |
| 1960s |
| 1970s |
| 1980s |
| 1990s |
| 2000s |
| 2010s |
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This is a list of comedy films released in the 1940s.
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Frank Skinner was an American film composer and arranger.
Hillary Brooke was an American film actress.
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Chester Lamont Clute was an American actor familiar in scores of Hollywood films from his debut in 1930. Diminutive, bald-pated with a bristling moustache, he appeared in mostly unbilled roles, consisting usually of one or two lines, in nearly 250 films.
Donald Hugh MacBride was an American character actor on stage, in films, and on television who launched his career as a teenage singer in vaudeville and went on to be an actor in New York.
Ralph Dunn was an American film, television, and stage actor.
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Edward Curtiss (1898-1970) was an American film editor who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1960s.
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