Helen Hayes
Nacimiento : 1900-10-10, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Muerte : 1993-03-17
Historia
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since.
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Follow the twists and turns of his life, legacy and legal battle as America's former favourite 'Dad' faces allegations from 60 women, spanning as far back as the '60s.
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Herself - Participant
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Miss Jane Marple
When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.
Miss Jane Marple
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Lavinia Fullerton
Durante un viaje en tren hacia Londres, una anciana mujer llamada Lavinia Fullerton explica a un matemático norteamericano que está a punto de delatar al autor de tres crímenes acontecidos en su pequeño pueblo.
Herself
Documentary about painter Edward Hopper and his wife.
Emma Long
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Lady St. Edmund
El castillo esconde un tesoro y Harry Bundage lo quiere. Pero necesita conseguir una cómplice (Casey Brown) que se haga pasar por la nieta de la heredera, desaparecida tiempo atrás. Ambos intentarán engañarlos a todos y quedarse con el tesoro. Usurpadora involuntaria, Casey debe encontrar los indicios que lleven al tesoro, cuidando de no despertar las sospechas de los otros habitantes del castillo, los huérfanos acogidos por Lady St. Edmund y su mayordomo, Priory.
Etta Grossman-Wise
Un avión de Air France lleno de pasajeros judíos es secuestrado por la OLP. Los terroristas amenazan con matarlos si no se aceptan sus condiciones Mientras tanto, el gobierno israelí trata de evitar la tragedia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hettie
Un lord británico regresa a Londres después de haberles robado un peligroso secreto a los chinos. Sin que él lo sepa, le persigue el jefe del servicio de inteligencia chino en Londres, que le perseguirá hasta el Museo de historia. Como no le queda otro remedio, el fugitivo esconde el microfilme de la fórmula en el esqueleto de un dinosaurio.
Mrs. Steinmetz
Un promotor inmobiliario ha comprado varios bloques en el el centro de la ciudad para construir una alameda gigantesca. El único obstáculo lo representa una anciana viuda que no está dispuesta a vender su vivienda. El promotor recurre entonces a toda clase de argucias para conseguirlo. Pero la viuda cuenta con la ayuda de Herbie, el Volkswagen fantástico.
Ernesta Snoop
A spinster and her widowed sister, who are the authors of murder-mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. This TV pilot film became a series of rotating movies the following season.
Veta Louise Simmons
Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plans to marry off her daughter. However, when she decides to put Elwood in a mental institution, a mix-up occurs, and she finds herself committed instead. It's now up to Elwood and "Harvey" to straighten out the mess.
Sophie Tate Curtis
Cuatro señoras de avanzada edad con una gran cantidad de tiempo libre tienen la idea de crear un personaje de ficción femenino para un servicio de citas por ordenador. Sin embargo, las cosas toman un giro trágico cuando su descripción femenina atrae a un psicópata.
Ada Quonsett
Un temporal de nieve azota Chicago, dificultando el intenso tráfico de su aeropuerto. A pesar de las malas condiciones meteorológicas, el aeropuerto consigue permanecer abierto, pero entre los aviones que despegan causa una gran alarma el que vuela con destino a Roma, porque, entre los pasajeros, hay un polizonte y un hombre con un maletín sospechoso.
Abby Brewster
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Narrator
Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc, pointing out the need for vigilance and action to protect democracy in the U.S. and abroad.
Cornelia Van Gorder
A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities supposedly hidden in the rambling mansion owned by spinster Cornelia Van Gorde.
Hotel guest (uncredited)
Film basado en una historia real. Rudi Matt (James MacArthur), un joven que trabaja de cocinero, está decidido a conquistar la Ciudadela (el Cervino o Matterhorn), el pico nevado que se cobró la vida de su padre. Alentado por su novia (Munro) y por un famoso escalador inglés (Michael Rennie), se somete, durante un tiempo, a unas sesiones de entrenamiento extenuantes gracias a las cuales estará preparado para afrontar terribles peligros antes de coronar la montaña.
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
París, 1928. Tras la Revolución Rusa de 1917 y, después de varios años de exilio, un grupo de súbditos leales al zarismo sigue buscando el rastro de la Gran Duquesa Anastasia, la única superviviente de la matanza de Ekaterimburgo (1918), ciudad donde los bolcheviques de Lenin acabaron con la dinastía de los Romanov.
Herself
A closed-circuit television special produced to raise funds for the relief agency CARE telecast live from the Adelphi Theatre in New York.
Self
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Lucille Jefferson
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
Helen Hayes
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.
Self (archive footage)
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Self
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
Vanessa Paris
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Maggie Wylie
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Madame Fabian
Cuenta la historia de un grupo de esforzados pilotos del servicio de correos a las órdenes de Riviere.
Stella Hallam
Stella y Victor se conocen en Europa, se enamoran y contraen matrimonio al poco. Al volver a Estados Unidos, Stella descubre que la familia de Victor está dominada por la madre, que la considera frívola y distante. El matrimonio empieza a desintegrarse cuando Victor hace más caso de su familia que de Stella.
Angela Chiaromonte
Se trata de una romántica y trágica historia muy al gusto de Hollywood, dirigida con su eficacia habitual por Victor Fleming. En ella, una aristócrata italiana (Helen Hayes) rechaza casarse con el hombre impuesto por su padre y escapa con su amante, un atractivo teniente. Cuando recibe la noticia de que el militar ha muerto durante una acción bélica de la Primera Guerra Mundial, queda moralmente destrozada y decide ingresar en un convento. Habiendo tomado ya los votos y consagrado su vida a Dios, descubre que el hombre que amaba no había muerto en la contienda. El dilema está servido.
Lian Wha
Curiosa película que se centra en las relaciones entre una tradicional familia china que vive en el Chinatown de San Francisco en 1911. Sus vidas se van a ver condicionadas por lo que está sucediendo en China, donde el nuevo emperador ha instaurado unas leyes muy restrictivas en cuanto al casamiento de las jóvenes se refiere. Ellas no pueden escoger al hombre que aman, sino casarse con los nobles de la comarca.
Catherine Barkley
Antes de que los Estados Unidos entren en la guerra en 1917, Frederick, un periodista norteamericano, se alista como voluntario en el Cuerpo de Ambulancias italiano para poder seguir de cerca los acontecimientos. Tras recibir una herida, ingresa en un hospital y se enamora de Catherine, una enfermera británica.
Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
Martin Arrowsmith es un joven e idealista doctor que, tras graduarse, se ve obligado a renunciar a un puesto como investigador con el prestigioso Dr. Max Gottlieb para casarse con la enfermera Leora Tozer. Regresa a su hogar natal en el campo, estableciendo una pequeña consulta, y en su tiempo libre desarrollará un suero para detener una mortal plaga del ganado.
Madelon Claudet
La joven Madelon Claudet es una prostituta que ha de pasar diez años en la cárcel por un delito que no ha cometido. (FILMAFFINITY)
Olive Pepperall
Young kids face off in a dance competition.
