Anna Duse

Nacimiento : 1908-07-24, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK

Muerte : 1992-03-22

Películas

La sombra del zar amarillo
Costume Design
John Hathaway (Gregory Peck), un importante científico americano, se entera de que que un antiguo profesor suyo está desarrollando en la China comunista un revolucionario sistema de cultivo capaz de adaptarse a cualquier clima. Las grandes potencias se muestran muy interesadas por el descubrimiento. El gobierno americano le exige a Hathaway que consiga la fórmula. Ante su negativa, deciden implantarle en el cerebro, sin que él lo sepa, un arma mortífera.
The Magnificent Two
Costume Design
Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is in the middle of a major conflict between the Government led by Diaz and the rebels led by Torez. When Torez is accidentally killed the rebels mistaken pick up one of the salesmen, Eric, as he looks like Torez. Eric and Ernie are promised millions to carry on the charade once the rebels take charge. However once Eric takes charge he finds himself back in danger as scheming general Carillo plans to remove the impostor from his role.
Casino Royale
Costume Design
James Bond, en su dorado retiro, se deja convencer por una delegación de las grandes potencias para participar en una investigación sobre la SMERSH, una misteriosa organización internacional que pretende acabar con la estabilidad mundial.
El estrangulador fantasma
Costume Supervisor
Un relato de misterio acerca de la investigación de macabros crímenes cometidos por un siniestro psicópata.
No Time for Tears
Costume Design
No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance. The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness.
Soñar no cuesta nada
Costume Design
Una chica pobre de Vermont recibe una herencia de su abuelo y se dispone a cumplir el sueño de su vida, viajar a Escocia. Conoce a un inventor, que la ayuda a encontrar alojamiento en Edimburgo, y a un noble local, que la confunde con una millonaria norteamericana...
El hombre verde
Costume Designer
A las órdenes de sus misteriosos jefes de Oriente Medio, el relojero Hawkins es en realidad un asesino a sueldo que siente predilección por matar a sus objetivos con bombas. Tras liquidar a un dictador y a un millonario, recibe el encargo de asesinar a un político que se alojará en el remoto hotel The Green Man con su secretaria, con quien mantiene una relación secreta. Una vez allí el plan de Hawkins será descubierto por el vendedor de aspiradoras William Blake, quien intentará detenerlo.
El niño y el unicornio
Costume Design
En un barrio londinense de clase baja, el pequeño Joe vive con su madre en un piso situado sobre la sastrería del señor Kandinsky. Joe sueña con ayudar a los pobres a cumplir sus deseos. Un día el sastre le cuenta un cuento según el cual quien capture a un unicornio podrá obtener cualquier deseo. Joe decide entonces gastar sus ahorros en la compra de un cabritillo con un cuerno emergente, creyendo que se trata de un unicornio. Sus esfuerzos para hacer realidad los sueños demuestran el poder de la esperanza y la voluntad en medio de la adversidad.
The Deep Blue Sea
Costume Design
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
Isn't Life Wonderful!
Costume Designer
Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Costume Design
Marjory gana un premio de belleza en su ciudad y se encuentra desfilando como lady Godiva, aunque no del todo. Acaba compitiendo para el título mundial en Londres.
Horas de ensueño
Costume Design
Una corista se convierte en estrella cuando corren rumores de su relación con un aristócrata al que no conoce.
Noose
Dresser
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
This Was a Woman
Costume Designer
The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them; subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence, finds in her husband's executive friend the man she desires, and then poisons her husband in her own manner in their quiet English manor
Wanted for Murder
Costume Design
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Quiet Weekend
Costume Design
Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son.
The Man from Morocco
Costume Design
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
It Happened One Sunday
Costume Design
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.