May Whitty

May Whitty

Nascimento : 1865-06-19, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Morte : 1948-05-29

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE (19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors union Equity was established in her home. After a successful career she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72. She went to live in America, where she won awards for her film roles.

Perfil

May Whitty

Filmes

The Return of October
Aunt Martha Grant
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
O Signo de Áries
Clara Brastock
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
Inverno D'Alma
Mrs. Perch
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries someone else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with her husband Tony. Mabel is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.
This Time for Keeps
Grandmother Cambaretti
An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.
A Rua do Delfim Verde
Mother Superior
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.
Devoção
Lady Thornton
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
Trágico Álibi
Mrs. Hughes
A woman finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.
Evocação
Nanny
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
À Meia Luz
Bessie Thwaites
Anos depois de sua tia ser assassinada em sua casa, uma jovem se muda de volta para casa com seu novo marido. No entanto, ele tem um segredo e fará qualquer coisa para protegê-lo mesmo que isso signifique enlouquecer sua esposa.
Madame Curie
Madame Eugene Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Lassie: A Força do Coração
Dally
A cadela Lassie é vendida por sua família, que está com sérios problemas financeiros. Não satisfeita, Lassie viaja 1.000 milhas para retornar à casa de seus verdadeiros donos. Baseado no romance de Eric Knight.
Os Mistérios da Vida
Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.
Noivas do Tio Sam
Dame May Whitty
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
De Amor Também Se Morre
Lady Constance Longborough
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
Mergulho no Inferno
Grandmother
Um tenente submarino e seu comandante se apaixonam pela mesma garota. Contra sua preferência pessoal, o comandante da embarcação PT Ward Stewart é nomeado diretor executivo do submarino USS Corsair. De licença antes de zarpar, ele conhece a professora Jean Hewlett e fica apaixonado... sem saber que ela é a queridinha de Dewey Connors, seu novo comandante. No mar, os homens criam um relacionamento enquanto lutam contra os navios alemães. Quando eles descobrirão sua rivalidade romântica mútua? Será que isso vai interferir num ataque de comando espetacular à uma base secreta alemã?
Senhorita Ventania
Baba
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Forever and a Day
Lucy Trimble
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Thunder Birds
Lady Jane Stackhouse
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
Rosa de Esperança
Lady Beldon
Com o início da segunda guerra mundial, Vin, o filho mais velho, regressa da universidade e se apaixona por Carol Beldon, neta de Lady Beldon, uma aristocrata de Beldon Hall, uma mansão vizinha. Apesar de discordâncias iniciais, se casam. Com a iminente ameaça de ataques aéreos à Inglaterra, Vin decide fazer sua parte e se junta à Força Aérea Real como piloto. É enviado para uma base localizada perto da casa dos pais. Clem ajuda na Operação Dynamo com o barco a motor da família. Sozinha em casa, a Sra. Miniver encontra um piloto alemão ferido em seu jardim. Ela o alimenta, o desarma calmamente e avisa às autoridades locais.
Suspeita
Mrs. McLaidlaw
Rapaz leva vida de playboy tomando dinheiro emprestado dos amigos. Um dia conhece uma tímida garota, com quem acaba se casando. Mas a jovem com o tempo passa a desconfiar que ele é na verdade um assassino e ela correr o risco de ser a próxima vítima.
One Night In Lisbon
Florence
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
A Bill of Divorcement
Aunt Hester Fairfield
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
Return to Yesterday
Mrs Emily Truscott
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Raffles, O Ladrão Amador
Lady Melrose
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
A Dama Oculta
Miss Froy
Em um pequeno recanto da Europa os passageiros de um trem ficam retidos em virtude de uma nevasca e são obrigados a pernoitar em uma pequena estalagem. Lá uma rica jovem conhece uma velha governanta e ambas combinam de se encontrarem no dia seguinte no trem. Entretanto, logo após o início da viagem a governanta desaparece e ninguém, por motivos diversos, afirma ter visto a pessoa desaparecida. Ela persiste em suas investigações e acaba convencendo um musicólogo, com quem ela tinha se desentendido na véspera.
I Met My Love Again
Aunt William
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.
Madame Walewska
Laetitia Bonaparte
A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.
The Thirteenth Chair
Mme. Rosalie La Grange
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
Night Must Fall
Mrs. Bramson
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
Keep Your Seats, Please
Aunt Georgina Withers
Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot? It's hard to say, but he still finds time to perform both the title song and the classic 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.
The Little Minister
Nanny Webster
A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.