Peggy Ashcroft
출생 : 1907-12-22, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
사망 : 1991-06-14
약력
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.
A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in other words, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone else thought about it) is finally released to the custody of her family, consisting of her grand-nephew and his family. At first she keeps a self-imposed distance from the relatives, but she soon finds herself coming around to her nephew's wife, a free spirit who is under the thumb of her cold and controlling husband
Nettie
In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to not arrest him if she'll have a relationship with him.
Lady Emily
In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher, but soon discovers that she expects her pupils to become disciplined in all areas of life, and not just behind the piano
Hilda Bloggs (voice)
중년의 짐 블로그는 핵전쟁의 위기에 곤란을 겪지만. 그의 아내 힐다는 집안일이 너무 바빠 이에 신경 쓸 틈이 없다. 핵전쟁 시 대처방법에 대한 팜플렛을 가지고 집에 온 짐은 거실에 대피소를 만든다. 그리고 핵폭발이 일어나 짐과 힐다는 대피소로 피신한다. 그러나 대피소를 나온 그들이 마주한 것은 급변한 세상이다. 처음엔 그저 우유와 신문이 언제 다시 배달될까를 궁금해하고 차를 끓일 전력이 없다는 것을 아는 정도였지만, 곧 참상이 그보다 더 심각하다는 것을 깨닫게 된다.
The making-of When the Wind Blows, featuring interviews with producer John Coates, director Jimmy T. Murakami and writer Raymond Briggs
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.
Mrs. Moore
영국인 아델라(주디 데이비스 분)는 인도에서 치안 판사로 근무하는 약혼자 로니를 만나기 위해 그의 어머니인 무어 부인(페기 애쉬크로프트 분)과 함께 인도로 향한다. 역에서 로니의 마중을 받은 두 사람은 영국인 전용 관저에 짐을 푼다. 그러나 얼마 지나지 않아 판에 박힌 인도 생활에 염증을 느낀 모어 부인은 우연히 인도인 의사, 아지즈(빅토르 바네르지 분)를 만나게 되고 아델라 또한 그를 통해 인도인들과 가까워진다. 또한 아델라는 인종차별주의자인 로니에게서 실망감을 느끼고 결혼을 망설이게 된다. 그런 어느 날, 아지즈는 유적 마라바 동굴의 여행을 제의하고, 인도인들과 가깝게 지내는 필딩 교수와 무어 부인, 아델라, 그리고 인도인 가드볼리 교수가 함께 떠나기로 한다. 여행 당일, 가드볼리와 필딩이 늦는 바람에 무어 부인과 아데라, 아지즈만이 기차를 탄다. 많은 인도인들 사이에서 색다른 동양의 문화를 느끼는 아델라. 그러나 아지즈에 의지해 산에 오르던 아델라는 무더운 날씨와 음습한 동굴이 주는 은밀함과 인도에 온 후로 가슴속에서 꿈틀거리던 욕망에 휩싸인다. 동굴 속의 신비스러운 메아리에 도취된 그녀는 아즈지가 자신을 능욕하려 했다는 착란을 일으킨다. 여행에서 돌아 온 후 아지즈는 아델라의 강간혐의로 기소되고 이 사건은 인도 전체의 인종 차별문제로 확산되는데...
The Rat Wife
Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beautiful Rita. However, much to Rita's annoyance, his attention isn't always undivided toward her, as Alfred shifts his focus between his book, their son Eyolf, and his half-sister Asta. As Allmers slowly feels trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, emotions and a painful past threaten to boil over into a terrible finale.
Jean Wilsher
Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."
Frau Messner
British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter (Michael Kitchen), an English businessman on an overnight trip through Europe, shares a compartment with a beautiful American woman, Lorraine (Wendy Raebeck). But Peter's hope for romance is soon dampened by Lorraine's xenophobia and the arrival of a haughty Viennese aristocrat (Peggy Ashcroft).
Queen Mary
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Lady Gee
This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couple—nicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governess—they must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey), who, in league with the Maharaja’s beautiful sister (Aparna Sen), may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments, Christmas parties, fireworks, and even an English ghost, a desperate game of palace intrigue will determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.
Lady Tattle
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Lady Gray
This film is about a man who committed a terrible crime during war and is now old and somehow sorry for what he did. The story about the preparations for his trial are described from different points of view, also from his.
Mrs. Greville
도시의 바쁘고 틀에 박힌 생활 속에 서로 필요에 의해 사랑을 주고 받는 알렉스와 다니엘. 변화없는 생활중에 자신들도 모르게 양성연애자인 봅을 동시에 사랑하고 공유하게된 두사람. 완벽한 듯 보였던 그들의 사이는 이제 질투와 의심만이 짙어가고, 사랑과 미래에 대한 갈등으로 흔들리는 두 사람은...
Belle
Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.
Hannah
술에 쩔어 사는 한물간 거리의 매춘부 레오노라(엘리자베스 테일러 분)는 교회 묘지를 찾아가 딸의 무덤에 꽃을 놓고 돌아오다 부유하지만 정신이 이상한 젊은 여자 센시(미아 패로우 분)을 만나게 된다. 센시는 레오노라가 돌아가신 자신의 어머니의 환생이라고 착각하고 그녀를 뒤쫓던 중이었고, 레오노라 역시 센시를 자신의 죽은 딸이라고 생각한다. 그렇게 두 사람은 모녀인 듯 미아의 집에서 함께 살아가게 되는데, 어느날 여학생을 농락한 죄로 항상 쫓겨다니는 신세인 센시의 계부 알버트(로버트 미첨 분)가 그들의 집을 찾아온다. 거들먹거리고 술 좋아하는 알버트는 자신의 의붓딸인 센시에게 눈독을 들이며 호시탐탐 기회를 엿보고, 도둑들은 정신이 이상한 센시의 집을 드나들며 마음 내키는데로 그녀의 물건들을 훔쳐간다. 이를 보다 못한 레오노라는 센시를 지켜주기 위해 경찰에 신고하겠다고 해 도둑들을 쫓아내지만, 좀도둑과는 차원이 다른 엄청난 위협이 닥쳐온다.
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
Self (narrator)
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock footage from both World Wars are included with 30 minutes of new scenes filmed especially for the project. The historical timeline is traced from the time Czar Nicholas II is crowned. The emergence of Lenin, his death in 1924, and the later contributions of Trotsky and Stalin give the viewer a sense of death, betrayal, and ideological devotion to the communist agenda. Rossif effectively uses scenes from the landmark 1929 film The Man With A Movie Camera by celebrated director Dziga Vertov. Rossif researched the film archives from several countries in his meticulous gathering of materials for this timely historical feature.
Queen Margaret
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Madame Ranevsky
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Mother (uncredited)
This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours in the life of Waterloo Station.
Mother Mathilde
가브리엘(오드리 헵번 분)은 벨기에의 유명한 의사의 딸. 사랑하는 청년의 어머니가 정신병자이기 때문에 결혼하지 못한 것을 비관해 평소 동경해 온 수녀 생활을 하게 된다. 물론 부모들은 그에 대해 반대했다. 그녀는 모범적인 수녀로 벨기에령 콩고의 간호 수녀가 되어 열대 지방으로 떠난다. 그러나 과로 때문에 폐결핵에 걸려 현지 의사의 도움으로 치료하지만 결국, 잉글버트 송환문제로 본국으로 송환된다. 제2차 대전이 발발하고 전선에 나간 부친이 전사하자, 그녀는 수녀 생활을 청산하고 종군 간호원이 된다.
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
Flower Lisle
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
The Woman
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.
Anna Carpenter
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
The Crofter's Wife Margaret
해니(로버트 도나트 분)는 캐나다에서 업무차 런던에 온다. 어느날 쇼구경을 갔다가 아나벨라(루시 맨하임 분)라는 묘령의 여인을 만난다. 이 여인은 해니를 따라 아파트까지 와서는 자신이 스파이이며 지금 쫓기고 있다고 말한다. 또한 스파이들이 영국 공군의 기밀을 외국에 넘기려 하고 있으며 자신이 그것을 막아야 한다고 한다. 그녀는 '39 계단'이라는 알 수 없는 암호를 이야기한다. 그러나 그날밤 아나벨라는 살해된다. 해니는 아나벨라가 얘기한 사람을 만나기 위해 스코틀랜드로 떠난다. 기차 안에서 해니는 자신이 아나벨라의 살인범으로 몰리고 있음을 발견한다. 또한 아나벨라를 살해한 스파이들에게도 쫓겨 해니는 파멜라(마델레인느 캐롤린 분)에게 도움을 청하나 거절당한다. 겨우 기차에서 탈출한 해니는 스코틀랜드의 어느 농가에서 하룻밤을 지내고 그 농가 아낙의 도움으로 다시 경찰의 추적에서 벗어난다. 구사일생으로 교수(고드프리 터얼 분)의 집에 도착한 해니는 교수가 스파이 두목이라는 것을 안다. 교수의 집에서도 탈출한 해니는 경찰에 가서 사실을 말하지만 아무도 믿어주지 않는다. 다시 경찰서에서 도망치게 되고 결국엔 파멜라의 신고로 경찰로 위장한 스파이들에게 잡히고 만다. 파멜라가 위험하다고 느낀 스파이들은 파멜라와 해니를 수갑으로 묶어 두지만 해니는 또다시 탈출한다. 결국 파멜라도 해니의 말을 믿게 되고 스파이 두목인 교수가 39계단에게 경고를 하려하며 런던 극장에서 기밀을 넘겨받아 국외로 탈출하려한다는 사실을 알게 된다. 파멜라는 런던 경시청에 가서 사실을 알리나 이들 또한 믿지 않는다. 런던 극장으로 간 해니는 뛰어난 기억력을 자랑하는 '미스터 메모리'라는 사람이 바로 기밀을 두뇌에 저장한 사람이며 이 자를 데리고 가려 한다는 것을 알게 된다.
Olalla Quintana (Phase IV)
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.