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Thomas Holloway was an English pharmacist. He was born in 1800 and died in 1883. A proprietor of the popular pills, ointment, etc, he founded a sanatorium or asylum for the 'insane', and hospitals for incurables and convalescents, at Egham, Surrey, in 1873; and also at the same place the Royal Holloway College, designed to supply the best and most suitable education for women of the middle classes. The college, which was opened queen Victoria in 1886, contained a collection of pictures of the value of 100,000 pounds. The total cost of the two institutions was about a million pounds sterling.
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William J Holloway was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Oklahoma from 1929 until 1931.
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Julian Holloway is an English actor, writer and film producer. He was born in 1944 at Watlington, Oxfordshire.
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Stanley Holloway was an English actor. He was born in 1890 at London and died in 1982.
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Sterling Holloway was an American actor. He was born in 1905 at Cedartown, Georgia and died in 1992 of a heart attack.
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Sally Gray (real name Constance Stevens) is an English actress. She was born in 1916 at Holloway. She is best known for playing the starring role of 'Nurse Frederica (Freddie) Linley' in the 1946 film 'Green for Danger'.
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My Fair Lady is a musical starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde White and Gladys Cooper in an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion about a professor of phonetics who bets a friend that he can coach a cockney flower girl and pass her off as a lady at any social gathering. My Fair Lady was directed by George Cukor in 1964.
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Noose is a crime thriller starring Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, Derek Farr, Stanley Holloway and Nigel Patrick in a story about a journalist who puts herself in danger when she exposes the illegal activities of a Soho gangster.
Noose was directed by Edmond T Greville in 1948.
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On The Fiddle is a comedy starring Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde White, Lance Percival and John Le Mesurier in a story about a confidence trickster who persuades a friend to join the air force with him to run money-making rackets. On The Fiddle was directed by Cyril Frankel in 1961.
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The Lavender Hill Mob is a comedy starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding and John Gregson in a story about an unassuming bank worker who masterminds a plan to steal one million pounds in gold. The Lavender Hill Mob was directed by Charles Crichton in 1951.
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