Estelle Brody

Birth : 1900-08-15, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 1995-06-03

History

From Wikipedia Estelle Brody (15 August 1900 – 3 June 1995) was an American actress who became one of the biggest female stars of British silent film in the latter half of the 1920s. Her career was then derailed by a series of ill-advised decisions and she disappeared from sight for many years before re-emerging between the late 1940s and the 1960s in smaller supporting film and television roles.

Movies

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Eunice Kalliduke
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
Breakout
Maureen O'Quinn
A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.
The Story of Esther Costello
Tammy
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Finishing School
Mrs. Whitmore
Lilli Marlene
Estelle
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
They Were Not Divided
War Correspondent
The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a cameo appearance by the real Sgt. Major Brittain who was famous in the British guards regiments.
I Was a Male War Bride
WAC Announcer Officer (uncredited)
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Ann Vickers
Prisoner (uncredited)
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
The Plaything
Joyce Bennett
A Scot acquires sophistication in order to spurn the socialite who spurned him.
Me and the Boys
Self
A film featuring some of best jazz musicians from the early twenties.
Kitty
Kitty Greenwood
A shopgirl loves a paralysed amnesiac and kidnaps him from his interfering mother.
Week-End Wives
Madame le Grand
A lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover. This British silent film exists in an abridged 2-reel (32-min) format.
Hindle Wakes
Fanny Hawthorne
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.