
Birthday:
07-01-1896
Deathday:
05-21-1968 (71 years)
Birthplace:
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography
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Hessy Doris Lloyd (3 July 1896 – 21 May 1968) was an English-American film, television and stage actress.
Born in Liverpool, she went to the United States of America to visit a sister already living there. What was supposed to be a visit she made permanent. She spent several years (1916–25) appearing in Broadway theatre plays, notably a number of Ziegfeld Follies editions, and probably spent some time on the road in touring companies. She decided on a film career, making her first film in 1925. With the exception of returning to one Broadway play in 1947, her career was devoted to films and television.
Lloyd appeared in over 150 films between 1925 and 1967, including the 1933 low-budget Monogram Pictures version of Oliver Twist, in which she played Nancy. Irving Pichel starred as Fagin and Dickie Moore as Oliver. Her roles ranged from the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in the biopic Disraeli (1929) to the meek housekeeper Mrs. Watchett in The Time Machine (1960).
Her most famous film roles were in the Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller. She voiced one of the roses in Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951), later making small appearances in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music which both starred Julie Andrews.
Hessy Doris Lloyd (3 July 1896 – 21 May 1968) was an English-American film, television and stage actress.
Born in Liverpool, she went to the United States of America to visit a sister already living there. What was supposed to be a visit she made permanent. She spent several years (1916–25) appearing in Broadway theatre plays, notably a number of Ziegfeld Follies editions, and probably spent some time on the road in touring companies. She decided on a film career, making her first film in 1925. With the exception of returning to one Broadway play in 1947, her career was devoted to films and television.
Lloyd appeared in over 150 films between 1925 and 1967, including the 1933 low-budget Monogram Pictures version of Oliver Twist, in which she played Nancy. Irving Pichel starred as Fagin and Dickie Moore as Oliver. Her roles ranged from the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in the biopic Disraeli (1929) to the meek housekeeper Mrs. Watchett in The Time Machine (1960).
Her most famous film roles were in the Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller. She voiced one of the roses in Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951), later making small appearances in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music which both starred Julie Andrews.
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The Time Machine
Act like Mrs. Watchett
event1960 star_border 7.3
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A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Act like Martha the Housekeeper
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
The Black Shield of Falworth
Act like Dame Ellen, Lady-in-Waiting
event1954 star_border 6.2
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In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
Alice in Wonderland
Act like The Rose (voice)
event1951 star_border 7.2
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On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.
Midnight Lace
Act like Nora Stanley
event1960 star_border 6.5
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Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
The House of Fear
Act like Bessie
event1945 star_border 6.8
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The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.
Is Zat So?
Act like Sue Parker
event1927
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A rich man hires a pair of brothers, one to teach him to box and the other to manage him. Meanwhile, the rich man must fend off his brother-in-law, who is after the family inheritance. The film is lost.
Tarzan the Ape Man
Act like Mrs. Cutten
event1932 star_border 6.7
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James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Act like Mrs. Follinsbee
event1947 star_border 6.7
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Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Three Strangers
Act like Mrs. Proctor
event1946 star_border 6.4
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Act like Maud, Barmaid (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.6
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A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
The Lodger
Act like Jennie
event1944 star_border 6.3
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In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
The Drake Case
Act like Mrs. Drake
event1929 star_border 3.5
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Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
The Great Gatsby
Act like Mrs. Fay
event1958
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Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his wealthy neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
The Broncho Twister
Act like Teresa Brady
event1927
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Returning from the war, Tom Mason (Tom Mix) rides square into a raging feud between the his family and the neighboring Brady gang.
The Sound of Music
Act like Baroness Ebberfeld
event1965 star_border 7.7
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In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Phantom Lady
Act like Madame Kettisha
event1944 star_border 7
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A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
She Was a Lady
Act like Alice Vane
event1934
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Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
The Old Maid
Act like Miss Ford (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7
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The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Straight from the Heart
Act like Miss Carter
event1935
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In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Act like Nurse
event1937 star_border 5.9
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Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
A Study in Scarlet
Act like Mrs. Annabel Mary Murphy
event1933 star_border 5.5
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In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
The Midnight Kiss
Act like Ellen Atkins
event1926
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While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas from going broke. Mildred works up a business arrangement, whereby she will sell Thomas' father's 250 pigs for a dollar each. Though Lenore is appalled by Mildred's "disgraceful" behavior, the younger girl quickly earns the respect of everyone in town
The Letter
Act like Mrs. Cooper
event1940 star_border 7.3
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After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Act like Miss Wetherby (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.7
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A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
Frenchman's Creek
Act like Undetermined Role (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5
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An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Disraeli
Act like Mrs. Agatha Travers
event1929 star_border 5.1
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Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Peter Ibbetson
Act like Mrs. Dorian
event1935 star_border 6.9
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When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.
Waterloo Bridge
Act like Kitty
event1931 star_border 7
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In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
Devotion
Act like Pansy
event1931 star_border 6.8
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A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Life with Henry
Act like Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5
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Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Letter of Introduction
Act like Charlotte in Play (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.9
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An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
The Conspirators
Act like Mrs. Benson (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.1
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A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
The Blackbird
Act like Limehouse Polly
event1926 star_border 6.3
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Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
The Man from Red Gulch
Act like Madame Le Blanc
event1925
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In the days of the California Gold Rush of '49, Sandy is at odds with his partner, Falloner, over the latter's heavy drinking.
'Til We Meet Again
Act like Louise
event1940 star_border 6.2
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Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Motive for Revenge
Act like Mrs. Fleming
event1935 star_border 5
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Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
Bought!
Act like Mrs. Barry
event1931 star_border 6
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Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
Of Human Bondage
Act like Landlady
event1946 star_border 6
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A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
Dangerous Corner
Act like Maude Mockridge
event1934 star_border 5.7
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Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
Vigil in the Night
Act like Mrs. Martha Bowley
event1940 star_border 6
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A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
Too Many Parents
Act like Mrs. Downing
event1936 star_border 5
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Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
Charley's Aunt
Act like Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez
event1930 star_border 5
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A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
Kind Lady
Act like Lucy Weston
event1935 star_border 6.6
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Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
Voltaire
Act like Mme. Clarion, Actress
event1933 star_border 5.7
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Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.
The King Without a Crown
Act like Marie Antoinette (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.5
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This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America.
Rosie!
Act like Sedalia
event1967
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An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
The Bachelor Father
Act like Julia Webb
event1931 star_border 6
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Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
Long Lost Father
Act like Mrs. Bellwater
event1934 star_border 5.7
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A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Murder Is News
Act like Pauline Drake
event1937 star_border 1
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A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds that the businessman has been murdered--and that now he himself is on the killer's hit list.
Barricade
Act like Mrs. Ward
event1939 star_border 5
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In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
A Feather in Her Hat
Act like Liz Vining
event1935 star_border 6.8
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After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
Shining Victory
Act like Mrs. Foster
event1941 star_border 5.9
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In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Scotland Yard Investigator
Act like Emma Todworthy
event1945 star_border 5.7
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A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
Once a Lady
Act like Lady Ellen Somerville
event1931 star_border 3.5
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A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
Old English
Act like Mrs. Rosamund Larne
event1930 star_border 4
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An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.
Secrets
Act like Susan Channing
event1933 star_border 5.1
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In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
The Black Doll
Act like Laura Leland
event1938 star_border 5.3
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Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
Transgression
Act like Paula Vrain
event1931 star_border 4
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When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
British Agent
Act like Lady Carrister
event1934 star_border 5.5
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In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
A Shot in the Dark
Act like Lucille Coates
event1935 star_border 5.3
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An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
Way for a Sailor
Act like Flossy
event1930 star_border 4.4
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A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
Tovarich
Act like Madame Chauffourier-Dubieff
event1937 star_border 6.2
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When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Peg o' My Heart
Act like Mrs. Grace Brent
event1933 star_border 5.2
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Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
Looking Forward
Act like Lil Benton
event1933 star_border 6.2
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Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
Clive of India
Act like Mrs. Nixon
event1935 star_border 4.6
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Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Brilliant Marriage
Act like Mrs. Madeleine Allison
event1936 star_border 4.5
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When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
The Constant Nymph
Act like Miss Hamilton
event1943 star_border 5.8
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The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
They Made Me a Criminal
Act like Mrs. Williamson (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.3
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A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Strange Wives
Act like Mrs. Sleeper
event1934
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When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Exit Smiling
Act like Olga
event1926 star_border 7.9
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The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.
A Woman Rebels
Act like Mrs. Seaton - at Party (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.8
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A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and enforced by her autocratic father.
Back Street
Act like Corinne Saxel
event1932 star_border 6.1
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A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
A Man Called Peter
Act like Miss Hopkins
event1955 star_border 6.4
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Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Act like Guest
event1939 star_border 7.3
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Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
One Exciting Adventure
Act like Oscar's Wife
event1934
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One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
We Are Not Alone
Act like Mrs. Jaeggers
event1939 star_border 6.1
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A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
The Spellbinder
Act like Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
Chicken Wagon Family
Act like Mrs. McGinty
event1939
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Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
First Love
Act like Mrs. Parker
event1939 star_border 7.8
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In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
The Perfect Gentleman
Act like Kate
event1935 star_border 4.5
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A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
The Under-Pup
Act like Mrs. Binns
event1939 star_border 6
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A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Act like Handmaiden (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.3
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This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Oliver Twist
Act like Nancy Sikes
event1933 star_border 5.1
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An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Act like Cardiff Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.2
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Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.
The Wolf Man
Act like Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7
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After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
The Trail of '98
Act like Locasto's Procurer
event1928 star_border 6.2
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Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
Sister Kenny
Act like Matron (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.5
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An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Port of Seven Seas
Act like Customer
event1938
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In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
G.I. War Brides
Act like Beatrice Moraski
event1946
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Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...
Mary Poppins
Act like Depositor (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 7.6
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Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
Sarah and Son
Act like Martha Ashemore
event1930 star_border 5.2
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A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.
The Lady
Act like Fannie Clair
event1925 star_border 5.5
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A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can't find the people she left him with.
Kiss and Make-Up
Act like Mme. Durand
event1934 star_border 5.2
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Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
The Woman in Red
Act like Mrs. Casserly
event1935 star_border 6.1
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A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
Alcatraz Island
Act like Miss Marquand
event1937 star_border 4.9
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A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
The Great Lie
Act like Sandra's Maid Bertha (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.8
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After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Act like Cockney Moll (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.4
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Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
The Plough and the Stars
Act like Woman at Barricades
event1936 star_border 5.6
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A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
Lady with Red Hair
Act like Teacher at Miss Humbert's School (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Journey for Margaret
Act like Mrs. Barrie
event1942 star_border 6.6
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An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.
The Boys from Syracuse
Act like Woman
event1940 star_border 5.8
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The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Molly and Me
Act like Mrs. Graham
event1945 star_border 6.2
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A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
The Auctioneer
Act like Esther Levi
event1927
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Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.
My Name Is Julia Ross
Act like Mrs. Mackie
event1945 star_border 6.7
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Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.
The Washington Masquerade
Act like Kitty
event1932 star_border 6.5
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An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
The White Cliffs of Dover
Act like Plump Lady at Boardinghouse (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.7
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American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
A Farewell to Arms
Act like Nurse (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.2
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A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
Night Monster
Act like Sarah Judd
event1942 star_border 6.2
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Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
The Soldier and the Lady
Act like Shepherdess (Uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.5
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In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Lonesome Ladies
Act like Helen Wayne
event1927
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Released on July 3, 1927
The Careless Age
Act like Mabs
event1929
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Directed by John Griffith Wray. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thomson.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Act like Mrs. Marley (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.4
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Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Robbers' Roost
Act like Prossie
event1932 star_border 5.5
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Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.
Tyrant of the Sea
Act like Elizabeth Blake
event1950
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In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.
Adam's Rib
Act like Lady with Attinger Kids in Court (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7.1
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A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Reno
Act like Lola Fealy
event1930
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A film by George Crone
The Notorious Landlady
Act like Lady Fallott
event1962 star_border 6.7
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An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Lord Jeff
Act like Hostess of Party
event1938 star_border 7.1
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Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
Mission to Moscow
Act like Mrs. Churchill (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.2
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Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
No Place for a Lady
Act like Mrs. Evelyn Harris
event1943 star_border 6
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A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Act like Schoolteacher at Accident Scene (Uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.7
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A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
Keep 'Em Flying
Act like Lady with Lipstick (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.9
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When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
Allotment Wives
Act like Alice Van Brook
event1945 star_border 6
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Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
Young Bess
Act like Mother Jack
event1953 star_border 5.8
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The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Kind Lady
Act like Rose
event1951 star_border 7
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Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.
This Above All
Act like WAAF Sergeant
event1942 star_border 6.6
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In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Devotion
Act like Mrs. Ingraham (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6
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In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
The Great Plane Robbery
Act like Mrs. Jamison
event1940
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Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
The Swan
Act like Countess Sibenstoyn
event1956 star_border 6.9
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Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
Appointment for Love
Act like Woman Spectator (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.2
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Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
The Sign of the Ram
Act like Mrs. Woolton (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.8
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A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
Black Paradise
Act like Lillian Webster
event1926 star_border 4
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In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
Kitty
Act like Fish Hawker (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Two Girls Wanted
Act like Miss Timoney
event1927
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Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is hired as secretary to duplicitous businessman Philip Hancock.
Becky Sharp
Act like Duchess of Richmond
event1935 star_border 5.6
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The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Act like Lottie Sorelle (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 4
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The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
Two for Tonight
Act like Lady Ralston
event1935 star_border 6.5
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A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
The Luckiest Girl in the World
event1936 star_border 7.5
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A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
The Red Danube
Act like Mrs. Omicron
event1949 star_border 6.3
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A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Act like Miss Wilkinson (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.7
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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Thriller
Act like Mother Evans (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.3
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Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
Lux Video Theatre
Act like Beatrice (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6
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Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
One Step Beyond
Act like Elizabeth Lloyd (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 5.6
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Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
The 20th Century Fox Hour
(3 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5.2
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The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
Matinee Theater
(1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 4.6
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Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets.
Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled:
When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
Cavalcade of America
Act like Lady Montagu (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 3.5
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Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
The Rogues
Act like Mrs. Hackett (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 7.2
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The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.
Coronado 9
(1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6
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Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.
Maverick
(1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.8
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The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.
The Chevy Mystery Show
Act like Nora Roberts (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6
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The Chevy Mystery Show is an American television anthology series featuring a different mystery each week that aired on NBC in 1960 as a summer replacement.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Act like The Callendars' Maid (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7.8
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A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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