A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Cicely Courtneidge Tom Walls Barry MacKay Alfred Drayton Iris Ashley Ivor McLaren Gibb McLaughlin Peter Gawthorne Cecil Parker George Merritt Cyril Smith Mickey Brantford Randle Ayrton Henry Oscar Percy Walsh Donald Calthrop Frank Atkinson Marcus Barron Kenneth Buckley Syd Crossley Howard Marion-Crawford John Mortimer Finlay Currie
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