Grace Arnold
Nacimiento : 1894-09-19, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1979-02-26
Mrs. Hornby
A dark tale in which a successful novelist is unbalanced by an assured young female fan.
Number 36
After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing; he only tries to escape.
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Filme cuya trama combina espionaje y ciencia ficción, sobre los experimentos en el campo mental que realiza un científico, los cuales terminan por despojarlo de toda sensación. Esto lo vuelve un sádico, permaneciendo incurable, ante los intentos de todos sus colegas. (FILMAFFINITY)
2nd Wardress (uncredited)
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
Housekeeper
A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.
Miss Barnesdell
El doctor Decker regresa de África después de un año, presuntamente muerto. Durante ese año, se encontró con una forma de cultivar plantas y animales a un tamaño enorme. Trae una cría de chimpancé para probar su teoría. Como tiene muchos enemigos en casa, decide usar su chimpancé, 'Konga' para 'deshacerse de ellos'. ¡¡Entonces Konga crece a proporciones gigantescas y causa estragos en toda la ciudad de Londres !!
Mrs. Dixon
Paul Dixon (Dermot Walsh) is a fiercely competitive racing driver whose meteoric career is cut short after he is paralyzed in a collision. Ann, Paul's conflicted, estranged wife (Wendy Williams), tries to help her husband overcome his self-pity to become productive once again. Paul's perception of himself as a cripple is challenged by his new friend, a former dancer (Anton Rodgers), who urges Paul to strive for rehabilitation and new goals. [Netflix]
Sapphire's Landlady
Un solitario día de invierno, la policía halla un cadáver en Hampstead Heath. Se trata de una joven y bella muchacha que ha sido apuñalada en el corazón. La única pista es un pañuelo teñido de sangre con la inicial "S". Su vestido, medias de lana y zapatillas planas corresponden al típico atuendo estudiantil. La investigación se pone en manos del superintendente Hazard y del detective inspector Learoyd.
Customer in Grocer's Shop (uncredited)
Un policía encargado de ocuparse de la delincuencia juvenil se enamora de la hermana de uno de los cabecillas.
Club Committee Woman
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.
Mrs. Groves
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
Lady Hawksley
Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or her hands on the stamp, which puts a crimp in Duke's efforts to romance every beautiful woman he meets.
Emily Gedge
As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive instincts and petty jealousies ensue.
Lady Diana Stevens
The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the Blitz whilst taking everything in good humour. Their neighbours Joe (Charles Victor) and Emma (Gladys Henson) are constantly in the Twiggs house, borrowing a cup of sugar or using their Anderson shelter and between them the two working class families put the world to rights. But when their daughter falls for an upper class RAF pilot the Twiggs are asked by his mother, Lady Diana Stephens to tell their daughter to call the romance off, as the social gap between the families is too large. Incensed by Lady Diana s offer of money, Sam Twigg throws her out of the house. But events take a sudden turn as the war enters the Twiggs own living room. Will the two families manage to overcome their disdain for each other and let true love find its way?
Mrs. Jolly
Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
Mrs. Harris
A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.
Landlady
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
Lady Astill
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
Mrs Bennett
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
Pompous Woman
Narra cómo el descubrimiento de un tratado provoca que la "Sección Pimlico", una pequeña comunidad en medio de Londres, se proclame independiente e intente actuar como tal.
Mrs. Amersley
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
Emily Baxter
The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.
Tessa
In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. However, his actions do not come without a terrible price.
Woman in Court
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Ted's Landlady
Una mujer casada esconde a su ex amante, que acaba de escapar de la cárcel, en su casa de Londres. Está tan descontenta con su aburrido matrimonio que empieza a sentir que renace su antiguo amor por él. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mrs. Ford
Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
Housemaid
Drama ambientado en el siglo XIX, acerca de una joven gitana muy atractiva a la que acusan del asesinato de su marido.
Martha
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
Nurse
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
Isabel Blake
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Mrs. Johnson
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
Mrs. Matthews
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
Sister
In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.
Mrs. Ned Fletcher
Listos para luchar y morir por su país, un grupo de civiles de toda clase y condición se someten a un entrenamiento básico ante el inminente estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Aunque al principio se quejan de la rígida disciplina que implica su nuevo régimen de vida, no tardan en adaptarse y adquirir las habilidades necesarias para cumplir con su cometido, además de sentirse orgullosos de ello. Durante su participación en la invasión del norte de África, su barco será alcanzado por los alemanes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sister Grace Annie Sprock (uncredited)
Homenaje a la importante labor de las enfermeras durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Restaurant Attendant (uncredited)
Cuenta la historia de siete mujeres británicas de clase alta que deciden ayudar durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Canteen Lady (uncredited)
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.
Mrs. Owen
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de soldados británicos llega a la aldea inglesa de Bramley End. Al principio son bien recibidos por los lugareños, pero muy pronto éstos empiezan a dudar de su identidad y de sus verdaderos propósitos. Cuando descubren que, en realidad, son soldados alemanes cuyo objetivo es ser la avanzadilla de la invasión de Inglaterra, los encierran en la iglesia parroquial. (FILMAFFINITY)
Music Shop Customer
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Maid
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
Mrs. Hardy
A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from ruin.