Margot Grahame

Margot Grahame

Birth : 1911-02-20, Canterbury, England, UK

Death : 1982-01-01

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Margot Grahame (20 February 1911 – 1 January 1982) was an English actress most noted for starring in The Informer and The Crimson Pirate. She started acting in 1930 and made her last screen appearance in 1958. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margot Grahame, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Margot Grahame

Movies

Saint Joan
Duchesse de la Tremouille
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
Orders Are Orders
Wanda Sinclair
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
The Beggar's Opera
The Actress
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
Venetian Bird
Rosa Melitus
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
The Crimson Pirate
Bianca
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.
Naughty Arlette
Helen Dickson
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
Black Magic
Mme. du Barry
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Broken Journey
Joanna Dane
Passengers and crew struggle to survive after their plane crashes in the Alps.
The Fabulous Joe
Emily Terkel
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!
The Buccaneer
Annette de Remy
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Fight for Your Lady
Marcia Trent
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Self
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
The Soldier and the Lady
Zangarra
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.
Criminal Lawyer
Madge Carter
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
Night Waitress
Helen Roberts
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
Make Way for a Lady
Valerie Broughton
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
Crime Over London
Pearl - Gang Moll
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Counterfeit
Aimee Maxwell
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
Two in the Dark
Marie Smith
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
The Three Musketeers
Milady de Winter
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
The Arizonian
Kitty Rivers
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
The Informer
Katie Madden
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
The Broken Melody
Simone St. Cloud
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Sorrell and Son
Mrs. Dora Sorrell
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
I Adore You
Margot Grahame
Norman Young wants to marry Margot Grahame but a contract with a producer prohibits her from marrying during a five year period. Norman spends millions to take over the contact.
Prince of Arcadia
Mirana
A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman.
Timbuctoo
Elizabeth
'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)
Illegal
Dorothy Turner
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
The Innocents of Chicago
Lil
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Stamboul
Countess Elsa Talven
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire
Creeping Shadows
Gloria Paget
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
The Rosary
Mary Edwards
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
Glamour
Lady Betty Enfield
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
Uneasy Virtue
Stella Tolhurst
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
The Love Habit
Julie Dubois
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Compromising Daphne
Muriel
A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.
Rookery Nook
Clara Popkiss
A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.