Annie Esmond
Nacimiento : 1873-09-27, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Muerte : 1945-01-04
Lady Foxfield
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
Lady Plumtree
Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
Lady Wrapping Parcels For The Bazaar (uncredited)
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Mrs. Truscott
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Café Manageress
From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girlfriend thoughtlessly blunders away vital wartime secrets. The consequences prove disastrous when his boat next leaves to cross the English Channel.
Cook
Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
Lady Kentford
The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
Mrs. Melworthy
Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
Lady Caroline Claydon
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
Aunt Octavia
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.
Mrs. Caldwell
Bulldog Drummond se enfrenta a agentes extranjeros que intentan robar los planos de un avión de alto secreto.
Lady Challoner
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
Mrs. Vane
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
Mrs. Payne-Coade
A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.
Baroness Kamp
The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
Therese's Train Companion
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
Old Lady Passenger
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
Mother
A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
Denise
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Mme. Vanheim
A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
The Cook's Wife (uncredited)
En mayo de 1536, justo después de la ejecución de su segunda esposa Ana Bolena (Merle Oberon), Enrique VIII (Charles Laughton) se casa con Jane Seymour (Wendy Barrie), que muere 18 meses después. A continuación desposa a la princesa alemana Anne de Cleves (Elsa Lanchester), pero el matrimonio acaba en divorcio. Su quinta esposa, la bella y ambiciosa Katherine Howard (Binnie Barnes), se enamora del cortesano Enrique Thomas Culpeper (Robert Donat), pero el idilio es descubierto y ambos son ejecutados.
The Queen
A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman.
Mrs. James Tarvin
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Landlady
A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
Mrs. Oliphant
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
Landlady
A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
Duchess
Enamorado de la aristocrática Sylvia Robertson (Elizabeth Allen), Max se hace pasar por un príncipe europeo y solicita la ayuda de un amable monarca ruritano (Lawrence Grossmith) que le debe un favor.
Nurse
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
Mrs. Makepiece
A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
Pritchard
An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.
Mrs. Higgins
A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.
Mrs.Gaskins
A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
Lady Cardridge
A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen
Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.
Aunt
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical
Governess
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
His Wife
Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Directed by George Pearson, the film was considered lost for many years until in March 2014 when a copy was discovered in an old Dutch cinema.
An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
Maid
Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
Denise Ryland
A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.
Mrs. Cooper
A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.