Martha Scott
Nacimiento : 1912-09-22, Jamesport, Missouri, USA
Muerte : 2003-05-28
Historia
Martha Ellen Scott (1912–2003) was an American actress best known for her roles as mother of the lead character in numerous films and television shows.
Sarah
A divorcée struggling to make ends meet, but still utilizing her spare time for social causes neglects her daughter in this fact-based story. At 18, the daughter starts drifting into bad company and eventually becomes a prostitute. To try to get her back in a proper life, her mother abducts her off the street and forcibly brings her home.
Virginia Camalier
Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune capital of the world. Is it any wonder that he wants to go to Saudi Arabaia for college and leave Sunnyvale far, far behind? He spends his days at school with his sex-obsessed best friend Dan Forrester and lusts after Lisa Winston, the sexy lounge singer who his parents have hired to perform at the Holiday Inn. Stuck without a date for his brother's wedding to a senator's daughter, Ryan goes to a computer dating service, which asks him such questions as "Can you breathe foreign substances?" Soon, Ryan is told that he may be an alien stuck on Earth along with thousands of others. Soon, Charles and Edna Pinsky show up and tell him that he may an alien prince meant to lead his brethren home. And that's when things get out of control...
Gram Walsh
Follows the true story of John and Reve Walsh who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.
Gram Walsh
Based on the true story that shocked the nation and led to vast changes in how law enforcement handled missing children cases...John and Reve Walsh deal with their grief in front of the whole country when their son, Adam, is abducted and later found dead.
Martina Shelburne
When seductive young Cinni comes to babysit for a troubled couple, she's after more than extra spending money. Starting with the kids and working around to the husband, evil Cinni plots to take over a young mother's life--ruthlessly dealing with anyone who gets in her way.
Hilda Wollman
Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the father from whom they have long been estranged, and the struggle to reestablish a relationship is explored.
Mrs. Farrell (Aunt Louisa)
Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the Civil War.
Adelaide
Una ex bailarina se ve obligada a enfrentarse a la decisión de dejar el escenario por su familia cuando su hija se une a una compañía de ballet.
Mumsie
The curse of the legendary blue Hope Diamond on all its owners is dramatized from the gem's discovery in 17th Century India until its donation to the Smithsonian Institute.
Mother Michael
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
Sister Beatrice
Cuando un Jumbo 747 colisiona contra una avioneta pilotada por un hombre de negocios que acaba de sufrir un infarto, el pánico se apodera de los pasajeros. Muertos los pilotos a causa del choque, la azafata Nancy Pryor, recibe instrucciones por radio para poder hacerse cargo de la situación.
Mrs. Emerson
A murder plot by a terminally ill English teacher, to capitalize on the double indemnity clause in his life insurance, hires one of his students to do the deed.
Mrs. Reynolds
Esta divertida comedia narra los problemas de un marido que se encuentra sin trabajo y las situaciones mas disparatadas que tiene que vivir con su mujer... Al borde de la separacion, vive las situaciones mas joscosas que pueda imaginarse.
A psychotic killer holds six people captive in a sorority house, each of them realizing that their captor's mind is like a defective time bomb and could go off at any moment.
Mrs. Arable
Wilbur, un cerdito que vive en una granja, se entera de que su destino final es acabar en el plato de una mesa. Decidido a evitar tan fatal desenlace, trazará un plan con su amiga la araña Charlotte. Adaptación de un best-seller infantil, escrito por E.B. White e ilustrado por Garth Williams, de enorme éxito en todo el mundo. Hasta la fecha, se han vendido más de 45 millones de ejemplares y ha sido traducido a 23 idiomas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mrs. Stone
La joven Diane regresa para presenciar el funeral de su madre. Allí conoce a Lilith, una vieja amiga de su madre que la invita a alojarse en su hogar. Pero pronto la joven descubrirá que detrás de la amabilidad de Lilith, se enconde un macabro secreto...
Mabel
A perceptive and funny study about the fantasies, inhibitions and dreams of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons who set up competing lemonade stands along a jammed highway. This short play incorporates comedy and tragedy, a touch of the bizarre, and ultimately, a sincere compassion in both women.
Miriam
Antigua Roma, bajo el reinado de los emperadores Augusto y Tiberio (s. I d.C.). Judá Ben-Hur, hijo de una familia noble de Jerusalén, y Mesala, tribuno romano que dirige los ejércitos de ocupación, son dos antiguos amigos, pero un accidente involuntario los convierte en enemigos irreconciliables: Ben-Hur es acusado de atentar contra la vida del nuevo gobernador romano, y Mesala lo encarcela a él y a su familia. Mientras Ben-Hur es trasladado a galeras para cumplir su condena, un hombre llamado Jesús de Nazaret se apiada de él y le da de beber. En galeras conocerá al comandante de la nave y más tarde a un jeque árabe que participa con sus magníficos caballos en carreras de cuadrigas.
Mrs. Webster
Guerra de Corea (1950-1953). Un militar norteamericano que mantiene una relación sentimental con una bailarina japonesa, intenta luchar contra los prejuicios raciales que lo dominan. El comandante Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), as de la aviación americana, es enviado a Japón para disfrutar de un descanso.
Lottie Graham
A naive teenager gets pregnant and is forced to face the realities of life.
Yochabel
Drama bíblico ambientado en el Antiguo Egipto que narra la historia de Moisés, favorito de la familia del faraón, que decide renunciar a su vida de privilegios para conducir a su pueblo, los hebreos esclavizados en Egipto, hacia la libertad.
Eleanor 'Ellie' Hilliard
Se basa en una obra de éxito de Broadway que había sido interpretada por Paul Newman. Tres fugitivos secuestran a una familia y mantienen a sus miembros como rehenes en una casa en las afueras de una ciudad.
Mother Reed
Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.
Georgia Wilson
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
Olivia
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Catherine Elizabeth Allen
El vaquero Dan Somers y el magnate del petroleo Jim "Hunk" Gardner compiten por obtener los derechos sobre el petróleo en tierra india en Oklahoma, así como por los favores de la maestra Cathy Allen
Janie Prescott
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Martha Scott
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Dakota (Terry), un soldado que está de permiso en Nueva York, visita la famosa Stage Door Canteen (título original del film), un local de Broadway donde célebres artistas entretenían a los soldados que volvían del frente. Dakota y sus amigos, Tex (Sunset Carson) y California (Lon McAllister), caen rendidos ante los encantos de Eileen (Cheryl Walker), Jean (Marjorie Riordan) y Ella Sue (Margaret Early). Artistas del calibre de Katharine Hepburn, Merle Oberon, George Raft, Johnny Weismuller, Ralph Bellamy o Harpo Marx llenan el local, en el que actúan las bandas de Xavier Cugat, Count Basie y Benny Goodman.
Hope Morris Spence
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Marta Keller
Durante la huida que emprende un grupo de personas tras la invasión de las tropas alemanas, el príncipe austriaco Kurt von Rotenberg se enamora de Marta Keller. Al ser descubiertos por los nazis en Checoslovaquia, Von Rotenberg decide entregarse a cambio de que liberen a cuatro detenidos, entre ellos el novio de Marta. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ella Bishop
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Jane Peyton-Howard
Guerra de Independencia norteamericana (1775-1783). Una joven virginiana reniega de sus orígenes aristocráticos y se casa con un plebeyo con ideas democráticas. Su nueva situación le ocasionará tremendos conflictos con su padre.
Emily Webb
Los cambios llegan lentamente a una pequeña localidad del estado americano de New Hampshire, en los albores del siglo XX. La gente nace, crece, se casa, vive y muere. El periódico y la leche se reparten cada mañana y nadie cierra con llave la puerta de sus casas...