
Birthday:
08-29-1883
Deathday:
10-22-1965 (82 years)
Birthplace:
Brighton, England, UK
Biography
Muriel George was an English singer and film actress who appeared in 55 films between 1932 and 1955, as well as on the variety stage and on radio with her second husband Ernest Butcher.
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Went the Day Well?
Act like Mrs. Collins
event1942 star_border 7.2
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The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
Darts Are Trumps
Act like Mrs. Drake
event1938
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Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well.
For You Alone
Act like Mrs. Johns
event1945
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Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.
Talking Feet
Act like Mrs. Gumley
event1937
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An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.
Weddings Are Wonderful
Act like Betty's maid
event1938
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Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
Crackerjack
Act like Mrs. Humbold
event1938 star_border 6.1
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London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
Go to Blazes
Act like Mother
event1942 star_border 10
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Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.
Food for Thought
event1940
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In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room. The leader of the group has some robust exchanges with a cantankerous ‘Grandma’ (known to the audience at the time as radio character ‘Grandma Buggins’ played by the comedienne Mabel Constanduros).
Rush Hour
event1941
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The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a minimum during "rush hour".
Doctor Syn
Act like Mrs. Waggetts, Pub Owner
event1937 star_border 6.6
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A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
My Song for You
Act like Mrs. Newberg
event1934 star_border 5.5
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In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.
Song of the Road
Act like Mrs. Trelawney
event1937 star_border 6
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After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
Freedom Radio
Act like Hanna
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Act like Mrs. Fowler
event1945 star_border 5.1
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Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
21 Days Together
Act like Ma
event1940 star_border 6.1
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After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
The Dancing Years
Act like Hatti
event1950 star_border 5.2
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The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
Last Holiday
Act like Lady Oswington
event1950 star_border 7.2
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George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
Cleaning Up
Act like Mrs. Hoggenheim
event1933
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Tony Pumpford takes a job selling vacuum cleaners, and in doing so tangles with a chorus girl. He then accidentally ends up in the show whilst demonstrating the cleaner.
Thark
Act like Mrs. Frush
event1948
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Mrs Frush complains to Sir Hector Benbow that Thark, the large country house she has bought from him, is haunted. Investigators and occupants spend a tense night searching for the spook.
Unpublished Story
Act like Landlady
event1942 star_border 6.3
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Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Act like Frau Weber
event1936 star_border 5.2
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Mozart biopic.
The Monkey's Paw
Act like Mrs. White
event1939
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British television adaptation of W.W. Jacobs‘ short story from 1939.
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Act like Mrs. Proudfoot
event1941
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Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
They Flew Alone
Act like Kitty the Housekeeper
event1942 star_border 6
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The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
Quiet Wedding
Act like Bella, the Cook
event1941 star_border 4.2
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A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Love on the Dole
Act like Landlady
event1941 star_border 5.7
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Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
Cottage to Let
Act like Mrs. Trimm
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Lady Be Kind
event1942
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A landlady changes her resentful attitude to her lodger when she realises the value of his work in a munitions factory.
Nell Gwyn
Act like Meg
event1934 star_border 6.6
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King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
The Briggs Family
Act like Mrs. Brokenshaw
event1940
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During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
His Lordship
Act like Mrs.Emma Gibbs
event1932 star_border 7
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The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
The Happy Family
Act like Housekeeper
event1936
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A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
Busman's Holiday
Act like Mrs. Green
event1936
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A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
When The Bough Breaks
Act like 1st Landlady
event1947 star_border 6.3
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The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.
A Place of One's Own
Act like Nurse
event1945 star_border 5.4
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An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
Encore
Act like Mrs. Robinson
event1951 star_border 6.2
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Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
Something Always Happens
Act like Mrs. Badger
event1934 star_border 6
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Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
Bond Street
Act like Maid
event1948 star_border 6.8
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Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Simon and Laura
Act like Grandma
event1955 star_border 5.6
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A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
I'll Be Your Sweetheart
Act like Mrs. Le Brunn
event1945 star_border 5
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In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
You Will Remember
Act like Landlady (Manchester)
event1941 star_border 5
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Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
Perfect Strangers
Act like Minnie
event1945 star_border 6.6
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After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
The Bells Go Down
Act like Ma Robbins
event1943 star_border 6.8
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Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
When We Are Married
Act like Maria Helliwell
event1938
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The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.
The Young Mr. Pitt
Act like Mrs. Carr
event1942 star_border 5.7
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This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Jassy
Act like Court Matron
event1947 star_border 5.4
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In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
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