Irene Browne
출생 : 1896-06-29, London, England, UK
사망 : 1965-07-24
약력
Irene Browne was born on June 29, 1896 in London, England. She was an actress, known for The Red Shoes (1948), Cavalcade (1933) and Pygmalion (1938). She died on July 24, 1965 in London.
British-born leading actress with long stage experience, beginning in 1910 with 'Robert Macaire'. Appeared in the West End production of 'No,No Nanette' (1925), followed by Noel Coward's 'Cavalcade'. She was also in the Hollywood screen version of 'Cavalcade' (1933), but was subsequently relegated to supporting roles and eventually returned to the London stage.
She played Lady Ann(e) Pettigrew in both Berkeley Square (1933) and its remake I'll Never Forget You (1951). Although she played Colin Keith-Johnston, Valerie Taylor and Heather Angel's mother in Berkeley Square (1933), she was only three months older than Keith-Johnston, six years older than Taylor and twelve years older than Angel in real life.
Miss Browne pronounced her first name Eye-REE-nee.
Dowager
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
Mrs Phillips
Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears being a spinster, wants to be his wife. He tells her he's not interested. When he confronts a tough kid about something the youth has done, the lad sets out to frame the vicar. Hester, who's walked in on the confrontation, backs the youth's story. The town sides with her and the lad, turning against Phillips. He has a crisis of faith. What options does he have; can no one help him, his reputation, or his calling?
Mrs Manning ffrench
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
Mrs. Barrington
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
Lady Anne Pettigrew
Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefather's cousin Helen but his contemporaries of 1784 are perplexed by his strange talk and the odd knowledge he possess.
Mrs. Grant
1857년, 글래스고의 한 저택에 살고 있는 부유한 상인의 딸 매들린은 아버지의 성화에 못 이겨 그가 원하는 결혼상대인 미노치와 약혼한다. 하지만 그녀는 밤이 되면 지하실에서 연인 에밀과 밀회를 나누곤 하는데, 약혼 사실을 알게 된 에밀이 질투심에 불타 자신을 가족들에게 소개하지 않으면 매들린이 보낸 러브레터를 그녀의 아버지에게 보이겠다며 협박하기 시작한다. 매들린은 에밀에게 함께 멀리 도망가 살자고 부탁하지만 거절당하고, 에밀의 협박이 시작된 지 얼마 지나지 않아 그는 비소 중독으로 사망한 채 발견된다. 그와 함께 발견된 매들린의 러브레터로 그녀는 살인죄로 체포되고 법정에 서게 되는데...
Duchess (uncredited)
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Lady Melbourne
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
Lady Bland
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Lady Neston
<불타는 가슴>의 발레 공연을 끝내고 극단 감독 보리스는 파티 초대에 응한다. 아마추어들은 질색이라며 자신을 위해 공연하는 조카 비키를 보고 싶어하지 않던 그는 막상 아름답고 젊은 그녀를 대하자 생각이 바뀐다. 비키는 그에게 '춤은 그에게 있어 인생 그 자체보다 더 중요한 것'이라고 얘기한다. 한편, 줄리앙이라는 학생은 그의 스승인 팔머 교수가 <불타는 가슴>의 공연을 위해 자신의 작품을 훔쳤다고 말하며 작품 노트를 보리스에게 보낸다. 줄리앙의 재능을 눈치챈 보리스는 그를 오케스트라 코치로 고용한다. 보리스는 비키의 독무대를 구경한 뒤 그녀의 재능과 춤에 대한 열정에 감명받고 발레단에 들어올 것을 제의한다. 그는 또한 줄리앙의 작품에 만족해하며 그에게 작곡을 위해 더 많은 자유를 누리도록 해 준다. 발레단은 공연 여행을 시작하는데 수석 발레리나가 결혼 때문에 춤을 포기한다. 보리스는 그녀를 보며 재능있는 무용수가 사랑 때문에 예술을 버리는 것은 낭비라고 여긴다. 결국 그는 동화 <분홍신>을 각색한 발레 음악의 작곡을 줄리앙에게 맡기게 된다.
Lady Londonderry
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
Duchess
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Lady Huntstanton
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
Queen Mother Therese
In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.
Lady Ann Pettigrew
A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
Mrs. Chichester
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
Carrie Valentine
A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.
Margaret Harris
1899년부터 보어전쟁, 빅토리아여왕의 죽음, 타이타닉호의 침몰, 제1차 세계대전 등 격랑의 20세기 초를 겪어나가는 한가족의 삶이 줄거리이다. 영국 상류 가정의 로버트 매리엇(클라이브 브룩)과 그의 아내 제인 매리엇(다이애나 와이너드)은 역사의 소용돌이 속에서 사랑하는 아들(프랭크 로턴)을 잃는다. 비록 전쟁 영웅으로 죽지만 가족에게는 엄청난 비극이다. 역사의 물결이 개인의 삶 속에 들어와 어떻게 조명되는지를 매리엇 일가는 감동적으로 그려낸다
Mrs. Joyce
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
