Mona Washbourne
Nacimiento : 1903-11-27, Solihull, Warwickshire, England, UK
Muerte : 1988-11-15
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Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.
Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist.
In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968).
She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978).
In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease.
Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940.
She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.
Mary Grey
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings renewed meaning to the lives of both women, but also reveals family secrets and forces confrontations with her aunt's indifferent son and hostile daughter-in-law.
Queen Mother
Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
Mrs. Pearce
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
Aunt Lydia
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
Aunt
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her days engaged in tedious housework, crafting verse and conversing with her aunt. But while her body may be committed to drudgery, Stevie's mind is constantly trying to break free, which causes her to rail against religion and middle-class values, and prevents her from finding happiness with a man interested in her.
Grandmother
Mytyl y Tyltyl, dos niños hijos de un leñador, buscan ”El Pájaro Azul de la Felicidad” para curar a una vecinita enferma. En su viaje, los guía la Luz y los acompaña su viejo amigo El Pan y su compañero más fiel, El Perro. En su búsqueda llegan al castillo de La Noche, al engañoso Jardín de los Sueños, al Campo de la Voluptuosidad y, finalmente, al Bosque, de cuyos terrores logran huir ayudados por El Perro. Por fin, encuentran un lugar apacible: el Reino del Futuro, donde esperan su nacimiento generaciones enteras. Allí vive El Padre del Tiempo, que observa cuidadosamente lo que la tierra puede necesitar. En su viaje los niños han descrito un círculo completo para encontrar El Pájaro Azul de la Felicidad, que, en definitiva, estaba donde había estado siempre: en su propia casa.
Mrs. Jarley
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Mrs. Helen Fiedke
Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in London to Rome, Italy where she embarks on a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange for herself — a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison.
Neighbour / Usher / Sister Hallett
Original y surrealista crítica al capitalismo a través de las aventuras de un joven vendedor de café. Brillante reparto. Música de Alan Price, candidato en 1974 a un Globo de Oro por la mejor banda sonora y galardonado por la Academia Británica con el premio "Anthony Asquith". Arthur Lowe fue elegido en el mismo año, mejor actor secundario por la Academia Británica.
Gran (Alice Tallent)
Two young people plot to get their hands on grannie's money, but rather than simply pushing her down the stairs they hatch an elaborate plot to convince her that radical youth have taken over England are planning to do away with "oldies" like her.
Kathleen
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
Mrs. Gray
un joven británico se sumerge en una pesadilla, ya que trata de resolver el asesinato de su tía, en Italia. Cuando las amenazas de violencia, notas misteriosas y el teléfono con llamadas amanazantes hacen añicos su vida, la policía y su novia dudan de la historia, debido a su pasado como adicto a las drogas, a pesar de que su vida está en peligro.
Mrs. Hayes
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
Mother
Inmediatamente después de la extraña y brevísima Tercera Guerra Mundial, están empezando a manifestarse las extrañas consecuencias de un accidente nuclear: un embarazo de 17 meses y, sobre todo, extrañas mutaciones entre los supervivientes, que se convierten en loros, armarios o incluso en una sala de estar con cama como le ha ocurrido a Lord Fortnum (Ralph Richardson). (FILMAFFINITY)
Matron
Polémica película en la que el pionero del Free Cinema inglés arremete contra la enseñanza superior y hace una sátira violenta y sin matices de los colegios superiores y del establishment británico.
Mrs. Brown
A hobo (Lance Percival) goes to London with a rock group (Herman's Hermits) and their prize racing greyhound, Mrs. Brown.
Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that Two A Penny, his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a fiolm as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self centered and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever….today" lies the possibility that he may well not.
Tea Lady (uncredited)
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.
Catherine Parsons
Cuando el automovil del ejecutivo Steve y su acompañante la hermosa Holly se estrella contra un guarda rail y se hunde en el río, todos los elementos de un apasionante thriller flotan en la superficie: un conductor desorientado que no recuerda ni qué ocurrió ni quién era él antes del desgraciado del accidente, una camarera ahogada, un individuo interesado en demostrar la culpabilidad del conductor.
Aunt Annie
Freddie Clegg, un empleado del Banco de Londres, es un hombre introvertido y triste que se dedica a coleccionar mariposas. Su vida cambia bruscamente cuando le toca la lotería, pues entonces decide secuestrar a Miranda Grey, una joven estudiante de arte por la que se siente atraído desde hace tiempo. Compra una casa en las afueras de Londres y retiene a la chica en el sótano un mes. Durante ese tiempo afloran en los dos personajes sentimientos encontrados.
Aunt Lil
Aunt Mildred
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
Mrs. Pearce
Versión cinematográfica del mito de Pigmalión, inspirada en la obra teatral homónima del escritor irlandés G.B. Shaw. En una lluviosa noche de 1912, el excéntrico y snob lingüista Henry Higgins conoce a Eliza Doolittle, una harapienta y ordinaria vendedora de violetas. El vulgar lenguaje de la florista despierta tanto su interés que hace una arriesgada apuesta con su amigo, el coronel Pickering: se compromete a enseñarle a hablar correctamente el inglés y a hacerla pasar por una dama de la alta sociedad en un plazo de seis meses.
Mrs. Bramson
Danny es un psicópata de la clase trabajadora que se muda con una viuda rica para redecorar su casa, mientras tanto, "juega" con la hija y la criada mientras la viuda duerme.
Alice Fisher
Billy es un joven provinciano al que le gusta soñar despierto. Trabaja como oficinista en una funeraria, pero su gran anhelo es ser guionista de un famoso humorista inglés. Billy es un desastre tanto en el amor como en el trabajo, porque dedica todo su tiempo a soñar.
Helga Lang
Después de que el joven barón Meinster sufra la mordedura del conde Drácula, para impedir que actúe como un vampiro, su madre decide confinarlo en sus habitaciones. Sin embargo, una joven lo libera sin sospechar las consecuencias de su acción.
Nanny
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.
Mrs. Daniels
Historia agridulce sobre los niños no deseados de Londres y las buenas personas que intentan ayudarlos. Ann es trabajadora social, mientras que Bill es un electricista cuyo contrato con el hogar de cuidado local le presenta a los niños y a Ann. Los eventos comienzan a escalar fuera de control cuando un niño toma posesión de un arma cargada.
Agnes Smith
A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
Mrs. Joe
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Dingle es el profesor de la escuela secundaria mas tolerante y querido. Cuando el autocrático nuevo director Frome comienza a imponer todo tipo de normas represivas, Dingle hace lo posible por defender a sus alumnos, pero sólo consigue que le despidan. Sus alumnos empiezan una cruzada para conseguir su readmisión y combatir la negativa del director de comprar los instrumentos que precisan para participar en el inminente festival musical.
Miss Linstead
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
Nurse (uncredited)
Las consecuencias que sobre una pareja de recién casados caerán por disfrutar de su luna de miel en Montecarlo.
Mrs. Thomas, landlady
Mary Price Hilton, una joven que ha sufrido muchos desengaños amorosos, encuentra por fin a un hombre que parece quererla de verdad, pero cuando lo sorprende con otra mujer, queda muy trastornada
Librarian (Uncredited)
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
Monica Bare
Edward "Teddy" (Dirk Bogarde), que ha asesinado a su esposa con el objetivo de cobrar su herencia, acaba averiguando que tal herencia no existe. Inmediatamente después de volver a casarse, empieza a planear el asesinato de su segunda mujer. (FILMAFFINITY)
Midwife Appleby
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
Mrs. McBain
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Midwifery Sister (uncredited)
Simon Sparrow es un joven estudiante de medicina que llega al hospital de St Swithin's de Londres. Animado por sus amigos, empieza a salir con una enfermera de la que acaba enamorándose.
Mum with Pram
Dos hermanos millonarios de avanzada edad deciden hacer una apuesta: uno de ellos afirma que, si le regalan un talón de un millón de libras a un hombre sin recursos, con la única condición de no utilizarlo durante un mes, podrá salir adelante. El otro sostiene lo contrario. Eligen a un abogado americano que está arruinado y se encuentra en Londres solo y sin amigos. Al recibir el dinero su vida dará un vuelco.
Mrs MacGregor
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through his innocent implication in a robbery.
Miss Minter
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.
A young woman marries and moves into her husband's family mansion. She soon discovers that neither the house, nor her husband, is exactly what it seems to be.
Fussy Mother
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.
Mrs. Mead
Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."
Mrs. Salop - Lady Gambler (uncredited)
El padre de Evelyn, una niña internada en un orfanato, ha estado escribiendo a su hija, que no lo recuerda, cartas fantasiosas sobre su éxito en los negocios. En realidad, se ha hecho pasar por un amigo, Adam, un apuesto jugador. Cuando el padre muere, Adam se lleva a la chica del orfanato y le dicen la verdad. Pero la niña se ha convertido en una mujer de extraordinaria belleza y surgen complicaciones, incluyendo las que crea Roddy, hermano de Adam, una auténtica oveja negra.
Lady Levenson
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as quickly as possible, but on meeting Ellen, chief designer and manager, he quickly changes his mind and turns his attention to courting her.
Vicar's Wife
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
Miss Barnes
Inglaterra, 1912. Los Winslow, una honorable y acaudalada familia británica, preparan el compromiso matrimonial de su hija, Catherine, con John Watherstone. Durante la reunión presidida por el cabeza de familia, Arthur, llega inesperadamente su hijo menor que ha sido expulsado del colegio por haber robado un giro postal de 5 chelines.
