Brenda De Banzie
Nacimiento : 1909-07-28, Manchester, England, UK
Muerte : 1981-03-05
Historia
Brenda D. M. De Banzie was a British actress of stage and screen. She was the daughter of Edward De Banzie and his second wife Dorothy, whom he married in 1908. In 1911, the family lived in Salford. She appeared as Maggie Hobson in the David Lean film version of Hobson's Choice (1954) with John Mills and Charles Laughton. Her most notable film role was as Phoebe Rice, the hapless wife of comedian Archie Rice (played by Laurence Olivier), in the 1960 film version of The Entertainer. She had also appeared on Broadway in John Osborne's original play, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Other memorable film roles were in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and The Pink Panther (1963) directed by Blake Edwards.
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Mrs. Innes-Hook
Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in India her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's length romance with a local boy.
Angela Dunning
La seductora Princesa Dala (Claudia Cardinale) llega con su preciosa “pantera rosa", una magnífica joya en forma de felino, a un lujoso hotel, en el que conoce al elegante y amable Sir Charles (David Niven), bajo cuya inofensiva apariencia se oculta, sin embargo, un despiadado ladrón profesional conocido como “el fantasma”. De impedir que el astuto delincuente se salga con la suya, se encarga el inspector más torpe de la policía francesa, nada más y nada menos que el famoso Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers).
Nurse Drew
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.
Gladys Rose Hanley
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
Nell Palmer
A finales de los años cincuenta, la sociedad británica experimenta un cierto clima de odio racial, que afecta sobremanera a los trabajadores de color, inmigrantes en su mayoría, que sienten la animadversión de algunos de sus jefes y de sus compañeros. Este no es el caso de Jacko Palmer, un artesano que realiza su oficio en una fábrica londinense, siempre dispuesto a ayudar a la comunidad negra. No obstante, la actitud que adopta Jacko Palmer en relación a este tema, se pone nuevamente a prueba cuando su hija Kathie se enamora de un colega suyo, el maestro de escuela de raza negra, originario de Jamaica, Peter Lincoln. Su convicción personal lleva a Jacko a aceptar la relación, pero encuentra la oposición de su esposa Nell. Tan sólo una revuelta que enfrenta a una banda de hampones con un grupo de jamaicanos indefensos hace recapacitar a Nell y, de esta forma, aceptar el futuro matrimonio entre su hija y el joven antillano.
Gertrude Cartwright
Jim Fuller (Stuart Whitman), que ha sido condenado a tres años de cárcel por haber intentado abusar de un niño, intenta rehacer su vida con la ayuda del psiquiatra de la prisión (Rod Steiger), que le consigue incluso un trabajo cuando queda en libertad.
Margaret Allison
Robert Talbot, un millonario americano, llega antes de lo habitual a su lujosa villa italiana para pasar sus vacaciones anuales, pero su novia de muchos años, se ha cansado de esperarlo y ha decidido casarse con otro hombre. Para complicar más las cosas, mientras él estaba fuera y en secreto, su mayordomo ha convertido la villa en un hotel y los huéspedes resultan ser un grupo de chicas jóvenes americanas.
Phoebe Rice
Durante una actuación en un hotel de playa, un showman intenta inútilmente atraer la atención de un público poco participativo. Pero su fracaso no es sólo profesional; tambien se está hundiendo su vida personal.
Nellie Lumsden
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Lucy Gordon
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
Aggie
Un taxista se enamora de una muchacha francesa y la libera de una red de tráfico de blancas.
Mme. Isabella Ballu
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
Lucy Drayton
Una familia americana, compuesta por el doctor Ben MacKenna, su mujer y su hijo Hank, está pasando unas vacaciones en Marruecos. Tras la muerte de un espía en brazos de Ben, mientras visitaban el mercado de Marrakech, el matrimonio descubre que su hijo ha sido secuestrado. Sin saber en quién confiar, los MacKenna se ven envueltos en una angustiosa pesadilla que tiene que ver con una operación de espionaje internacional.
Lady Ruby
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.
Muriel Mallet
El joven médico Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) ejerce su profesión en “El Loto”, un buque de carga dirigido por el autoritario y borrachín Capitán Hogg. Allí conoce a los personajes más excéntricos y se ve involucrado en situaciones bastante embarazosas. Cuando en Río ve a Hélène Colbert (Brigitte Bardot), una joven y atractiva cantante francesa, cae rendido a sus pies.
Stella Bentley
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Miss McNab
Un aeródromo de la RAF en Birmania en 1945, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Bill Forrester, un piloto de bombardero canadiense, es un hombre amargado que vive perseguido por un trágico pasado. Se ha convertido en un guerrero temerario, y es temido por sus camaradas, que le consideran un loco. El doctor Harris, médico del escuadrón, está decidido a ayudarle a sanar su alma atormentada.
Sarah Brown
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?
Maggie Hobson
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.
Jane Price
Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote the original play and collaborated on the screenplay) to help them out and set them straight.
Evelyn Steele
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.
Mrs. Collins
Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver one of the team's members, is reunited with a little French girl he'd befriended during the war, who has now developed into a beautiful young woman. And Fred Collins makes a poignant journey to the hotel where he'd honeymooned with his late wife. The film works best as a low-key comedy-drama; it is least successful when it ventures into O. Henry territory and strains for "surprise" story twists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Fruit and Veg Stall Customer (uncredited)
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
Dolly Carson
A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.
Mrs. Hooker
Ofrece una mirada sobre el funcionamiento del servicio de libertad condicional a través de los ojos de Phipps, un hombre de mediana edad en busca de mérito y una nueva ocupación.
Mrs Rogers
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
