Cicely Courtneidge
Nacimiento : 1893-04-01, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Muerte : 1980-04-26
Mrs. Harriet Frencham
A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.
Major Martha
Un grupo de padres decide abrir una cuenta bancaria con la intención de que la suma acumulada durante años vaya a parar a manos del hijo que consiga sobrevivir a los demás. Mucho tiempo después, sólo quedan dos supervivientes: dos hermanos que se odian.
Colonel's Wife
En 1910 tiene lugar una gran carrera entre Londres y París que es patrocinada por el rico editor de un periódico británico. Los participantes proceden de todas partes y protagonizan toda clase de peripecias, rivalidades y aventuras amorosas.
Mavis
Jane (Leslie Caron), una joven francesa soltera y embarazada, llega a Londres y alquila un cuarto en una sórdida casa, cuyos huéspedes son toda clase de marginados. Cuando piensa en la posibilidad de abortar, se siente muy infeliz. Mantiene una relación sentimental con Toby (Tom Bell), un joven escritor que vive en la misma casa. Con el tiempo entabla amistad con la gente de la casa, pero sigue sin resolver dos problemas: qué hacer con el niño y con Toby.
Miss Peake
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
Millicent Tulip
Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
Kay Millett
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
Katharine 'Lady Kate' Levering
When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
April Maye
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
Kit Ross
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Cicely Fytte / Bertha Fytte
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
Sally Bird / Mademoiselle Zaza
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
Minnie Tucker
In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
Jenny Marvello / Maisie Marvello
When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a family of music-hall performers. However, when young Dorothy Hyson begins an affair with a young soldier, Miss Courtneidge is trapped between her responsibilities and memories of her affair years ago with another young soldier.
Illustrated Ida
Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
Mrs. Bobday
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
Miss Bourne
The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction is by Walter Murton. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
Herself
Hitchcock filmó algunas de las secuencias de esta película compuesta por sketches y números de music-hall. En ella se parodia el cine policíaco, la versión de "La fierecilla domada" (Shakespeare) llevada al cine por Douglas Fairbanks y Mary Pickford e incluso la televisión.