Margaret Leighton

Margaret Leighton

Birth : 1922-02-26, Barnt Green, Worcestershire, England, U.K.

Death : 1976-01-13

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Margaret Leighton (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was an English actress. She had an exquisite sense of grandeur and refinement. She created the role of Hannah Jelkes in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Leighton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Margaret Leighton

Movies

Journey Through the Black Sun
Arra
"Journey Through the Black Sun" (1982) made by ITC New York combined the first season episodes "Collision Course" and "Black Sun" from the TV series "Space: 1999".
Trial by Combat
Ma Gore
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.
Galileo
Elderly Court Lady
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
Frankenstein: The True Story
Francoise DuVal
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
From Beyond the Grave
Madame Orloff
Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits all of them—particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.
Great Expectations
Miss Havisham
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Bequest to the Nation
Lady Frances Nelson
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Melbourne
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
High Summer
Lady Huntercombe
The peace of an aristocratic cricketing weekend at a large English country mansion in the early 20th century is disturbed when the wayward Bohemian son of the owning family returns unexpectedly to claim his inheritance.
Zee and Co.
Gladys
The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
The Go-Between
Mrs Maudsley
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
The Vortex
Florence Lancaster
In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the cocktail party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing, early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was usually more turned towards the light.
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Constance, the Madwoman of Passy
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the rather traditional beliefs of others.
An Ideal Husband
Mrs Cheveley
Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.
All on Her Own
Rosemary
Rosemary returns from a party to the empty Hampstead house where she has lived since the death of her husband. He died of an overdose of sleeping pills - was it accidental - she tries to find out.
7 Women
Agatha Andrews
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
The Loved One
Mrs. Helen Kenton
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
The Best Man
Alice Russell
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
Waltz of the Toreadors
Emily Fitzjohn
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, something always seems to get in the way of his bedding the breathtakingly lovely Ghislaine, a more-than-willing town local.
The Sound and the Fury
Caddy Compson
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
The Passionate Stranger
Judith Wynter / Leonie Hathaway
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
The Constant Husband
Miss Chesterman
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
Carrington V.C.
Valerie Carrington
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven), is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe, he also face two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act on his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A mans career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations, all hang in the balance.
The Teckman Mystery
Helen Teckman
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.
The Good Die Young
Eve Ravenscourt
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
The Holly and the Ivy
Margaret Gregory
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
Home at Seven
Janet Preston
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Sergeant Helen Smith
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
The Elusive Pimpernel
Marguerite Blakeney
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
The Astonished Heart
Leonora Vail
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
Under Capricorn
Milly
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict, Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness.
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Flora MacDonald
The Pretender lands on Scottish shores and attempts to claim the crown.
The Winslow Boy
Catherine Winslow
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.