Helen Haye

Helen Haye

Nacimiento : 1874-08-28, Assam Province, British India

Muerte : 1957-09-01

Perfil

Helen Haye

Películas

La gitana y el caballero
Lady Caroline Ayrton
Durante una feria, Paul Deverill (Keith Michell) conocerá a la gitana Belle (Melina Mercouri) de la cual quedará tan prendado que, en contra de un compromiso ya establecido, a la primera oportunidad la convertirá en su amante. Para ella, él no será más que la ocasión de conseguir todo lo que la vida le ha denegado y junto a su enamorado Jess (Patrick McGoohan), hará cuanto pueda para conseguirlo.
La frontera del terror
Countess Valona
La acción tiene lugar en Albania, donde un hombre ha sido hecho prisionero por sus ideas políticas. Su hija contrata a un mercenario para que, cruzando la frontera con Grecia, se interne en el país y consiga liberarse, contactando con un grupo de la resistencia albanesa.
My Teenage Daughter
Aunt Louisa Black
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
La reconciliación
Lady Drayton
Una joven actriz debe decidir cuál de sus dos amantes será su marido. Ella sueña despierta sobre quién de los dos es mejor, imaginándoselos como nobles, para así poderse decidir.
El déspota
Mrs. Hepworth
Adaptación de una obra teatral de Harold Brighouse, ambientada en 1890. Trata sobre las relaciones entre un próspero comerciante viudo y sus hijas, a las que mantiene encerradas en casa, mientras se dedica a lamentarse y a despotricar contra lo injusta que es la vida por haberle arrebatado a su esposa.
Front Page Story
Susan's Mother
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....
Traición
Lady Witheringham
Durante la Guerra Fría un oficial recién casado se enfrenta a una difícil elección a causa de su verdadera ocupación. Es un espía comunista que maneja información militar secreta. Cuando su mujer lo descubre le pide el divorcio, pero todo se complica cuando sus superiores le piden que acabe con ella.
Third Time Lucky
Old Lady
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.
Anna Karenina
Countess Vronsky
Stefan Oblonsky pide a su hermana Anna Karenina que abandone San Petersburgo y regrese a Moscú para ayudarle a resolver ciertas desavenencias con su esposa Dolly. En el tren Anna viaja en compañía de la condesa Vronsky, a la que espera su hijo en la estación. El coronel Vronsky y Anna se enamoran a primera vista y cuando vuelven a San Petersburgo continúan intimando en las fiestas. Pero ella está casada y tiene un hijo pequeño, por lo que deben ser muy discretos y prudentes en sus encuentros.
Mrs. Fitzherbert
Lady Sefton
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Mine Own Executioner
Lady Maresfield
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
A Place of One's Own
Florence Manning-Tutthorn
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
La Madonna de las siete lunas
Mother Superior
Una mujer vive marcada por un trauma de su infancia, en la que fue salvajemente atacada y violada. Esto la trastornará hasta el punto de llevar una doble vida en la que unas veces es una dama de la alta sociedad y otras una harapienta gitana. La película obtuvo un gran éxito entre el público inglés de la época, aunque su estreno en España fue muy posterior.
Fanny by Gaslight
Mrs. Somerford
Al regresar a Londres tras acabar el internado, Fanny presencia la muerte de su padre en una pelea, y descubre que su familia ha regentado un burdel durante años. No será el único descubrimiento importante en su vida, mientras se enamora del joven asesor y político Harry Sommerford, debiendo luchar por su amor contra la familia de éste.
Dear Octopus
Dora Randolph
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
Perfidia
Lady Rohan
Un marqués se casa con una joven sólo por el título, a la vez que ama a otra. La joven acabará enamorándose de un amigo menos afortunado, pero todo se complica más aún por las insidias de su cruel marido y la pérfida amante.
Kipps
Mrs. Walshingham
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
The Case of the Frightened Lady
Lady Lebanon
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Riding High
Miss Ada Broadbent
Popular comedian Claude Dampier is seen at his best here, as he disrupts the sedate peace of Victorian England in his attempt to help a village blacksmith win both a bicycle race and the girl. Can the blacksmith's new bicycle design triumph over his rival's trusty penny farthing?
A Girl Must Live
Aunt Primrose
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
El espía negro
Mrs. Sedley
Un comandante alemán de submarinos, el capitán Hardt, es enviado a la islas Órcadas con la misión de destruir la flota británica apostada en Scapa Flow. Allí encontrará la colaboración del matrimonio Blacklock.
St. Martin's Lane
Selina
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
The Girl in the Taxi
Delphine
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
Cotton Queen
Margaret Owen
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Eso que llaman amor
Aunt Jenepher
En 1889, un lord irlandés se casa con una hermosa gitana, pero muere a consecuencia de una caída del caballo. La familia, que odia a la gitana, la expulsa y va a refugiarse en España. Casi medio siglo después, la gitana, que huye de la Guerra Civil española, vuelve a Inglaterra en compañía de María, su hermoasa nieta, la cual se enamora de de un entrenador de caballos, pero el problema es que está comprometida con un hombre en España. Un día, éste reaparece.
Drake of England
Lady Lennox
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.
39 escalones
Louisa Jordan
Richard Hannay está en un music-hall londinense. De repente, suena un disparo y comienza una pelea. En medio del tumulto, una chica asustada le pregunta si puede ir con él. Richard accede y la lleva a su apartamento...
The Dictator
Queen Mother Juliana
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
This Week of Grace
Lady Warmington
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
It's a Boy
Mrs. Bogle
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
Her First Affaire
Lady Brogden
Una tozuda joven se enamora de un novelista de tres al cuarto y consigue introducirse en su casa, para disgusto de su prometido. Éste conspira con la esposa del autor para demostrarle lo estúpida que ha sido.
Monte Carlo Madness
In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, but falls in love with a Queen.
Congress Dances
Princess
In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
The Officers' Mess
Mrs. Harbottle
A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
Brown Sugar
Lady Knightsbridge
The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.
Juego sucio
Mrs. Hillcrist
Basada en una obra de teatro, es la historia de una furiosa rivalidad entre un propietario rural y su vecino, un industrial advenedizo.
Beyond the Cities
Amy Hayes
"A wealthy young man, through losing the bulk of his fortune, goes to Canada, where he encounters and loves the daughter of the scoundrel lawyer who has robbed him." (Synopsis from The Bioscope, November 1930.)
The Nipper
Lady Sevenoaks
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
Knowing Men
Korah's Aunt (Marquise de Jaurmais)
Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
Atlantic
Clara Tate-Hughes
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
The Skin Game
Mrs. Hillcrist
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village. The original silent version of a film Hitchcock later adapted with sound.
Bleak House
Miss Barbay
'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
Masks and Faces
Dame Best
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.