Margot Grahame

Margot Grahame

Nacimiento : 1911-02-20, Canterbury, England, UK

Muerte : 1982-01-01

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Margot Grahame (20 February 1911 – 1 January 1982) was an English actress most noted for starring in The Informer and The Crimson Pirate. She started acting in 1930 and made her last screen appearance in 1958. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margot Grahame, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Margot Grahame

Películas

Santa Juana
Duchesse de la Tremouille
Guerra de los Cien Años. Francia. "La doncella de Orleáns", después Santa Juana, fue la gran heroína francesa en la guerra contra los ingleses; finalizada la contienda hubo de afrontar el juicio de la Inquisición
Orders Are Orders
Wanda Sinclair
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
The Beggar's Opera
The Actress
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
Venetian Bird
Rosa Melitus
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
El temible burlón
Bianca
Siglo XVIII. Todo un clásico del cine de piratas que narra las correrías de Burt Lancaster y su acrobático e inseparable compañero Cravat, unos temibles corsarios que aterrorizan a las tripulaciones de los barcos que navegan por el Mediterráneo.
Naughty Arlette
Helen Dickson
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
Cagliostro
Mme. du Barry
Orson Welles interpreta al siniestro mago José Bálmano, más conocido por el sobrenombre de Cagliostro, quien se verá envuelto en una trama de intrigas palaciegas a través de la cual de piensa reemplazar a la Reina María Antonieta con una doble, para así poder tener acceso al poder. Adaptación de la novela de Alejandro Dumas.
Broken Journey
Joanna Dane
Passengers and crew struggle to survive after their plane crashes in the Alps.
The Fabulous Joe
Emily Terkel
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!
The Buccaneer
Annette de Remy
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Fight for Your Lady
Marcia Trent
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Self
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
Miguel Strogoff
Zangarra
Narra la historia de un correo del zar de Rusia que debe entregar una carta al duque, en la que le previene del traidor Iván Ogaref que quiere asesinarlo y entregar su ciudad a los Khanes mongoles. En su apresurado camino se encuentra con Nadia, una joven que va a la misma ciudad, Irkuskt, para ver a su padre. Los mongoles capturan a Miguel Strogoff, que logra escapar curiosamente y entrega la carta al duque, evitando la invasión mongola.
Criminal Lawyer
Madge Carter
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
Night Waitress
Helen Roberts
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
Make Way for a Lady
Valerie Broughton
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
Crime Over London
Pearl - Gang Moll
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Counterfeit
Aimee Maxwell
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
Two in the Dark
Marie Smith
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Por la dama y el honor
Milady de Winter
El joven y valeroso D’Artagnan llega a París y busca a su padrino, el capitán de Treville, jefe del cuerpo de los mosqueteros del rey Luis XIII (1610-1643), en el que quiere ingresar. Allí conoce a Aramis, Porthos y Athos, tres prodigiosos espadachines, a los que, no obstante, D’Artagnan no duda en retar a un duelo. Pero, para ganarse el respeto de los mosqueteros, el joven tendrá que enfrentarse a los malvados sicarios del cardenal Richelieu, enemigo mortal de la Corona. Defendiendo la causa de la reina Ana de Austria, esposa de Luis XIII, se enamora de Constance, la hermosa dama de compañía de la Reina. Esta fue la primera versión sonora sobre la novela de Dumas. Con un dinámico guión de Dudley Nichols, la trama sigue fielmente la novela original, destacando las peleas a espada y la aparición de Margot Grahame como Milady De Winter.
The Arizonian
Kitty Rivers
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
El delator
Katie Madden
Irlanda 1922. Traición entre amigos para un conocido filme de Ford. Rodada en apenas 3 semanas. En el agitado Dublín de los años veinte, Gypo Nolan, un tipo sin oficio ni beneficio, expulsado del Ejército de Liberación Irlandés y con tendencia a empinar el codo, sueña con viajar a Estados Unidos en compañía de su novia, Katie, que se gana la vida como prostituta. Animado por la recompensa que ofrecen las autoridades, Gypo delata el paradero del activista Frankie McPhillip, un viejo amigo y compañero.
The Broken Melody
Simone St. Cloud
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Sorrell and Son
Mrs. Dora Sorrell
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
I Adore You
Margot Grahame
Norman Young wants to marry Margot Grahame but a contract with a producer prohibits her from marrying during a five year period. Norman spends millions to take over the contact.
Prince of Arcadia
Mirana
A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman.
Timbuctoo
Elizabeth
'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)
Illegal
Dorothy Turner
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
The Innocents of Chicago
Lil
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Stamboul
Countess Elsa Talven
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire
Creeping Shadows
Gloria Paget
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
The Rosary
Mary Edwards
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
Glamour
Lady Betty Enfield
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
Uneasy Virtue
Stella Tolhurst
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
The Love Habit
Julie Dubois
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Compromising Daphne
Muriel
A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.
Rookery Nook
Clara Popkiss
A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.