Judith Anderson
Nascimento : 1897-02-10, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Morte : 1992-01-03
História
Dame Judith Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson on February 10, 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia. She began her acting career in Australia before moving to New York in 1918. There she established herself as one of the greatest theatrical actresses and was a major star on Broadway throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Her notable stage works included the role of Lady Macbeth, which she played first in the 1920s, and gave an Emmy Award-winning television performance in Macbeth (1960). Anderson's long association with Euripides's "Medea" began with her acclaimed Tony Award-winning 1948 stage performance in the title role. She appeared in the television version of Medea (1983) in the supporting character of the Nurse.
Anderson made her Hollywood film debut under director Rowland Brown in a supporting role in Blood Money (1933). Her striking, not conventionally attractive features were complemented with her powerful presence, mastery of timing and an effortless style. Anderson made a film career as a supporting character actress in several significant films including Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), for which she was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress. She worked with director Otto Preminger in Laura (1944), then with René Clair in And Then There Were None (1945). Her remarkable performance in a supporting role in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) fit in a stellar acting ensemble under director Richard Brooks.
Anderson was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's New Year's Honours List for her services to the performing arts. Living in Santa Barbara in her later years, she also had a successful stint on the soap opera Santa Barbara (1984) and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984. In the same year, at age 87, she appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) as the High Priestess, and was nominated for a Saturn Award for that role. She was awarded Companion of the Order of Australia in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the performing arts. Anderson died at age 94 of pneumonia on January 3, 1992 in Santa Barbara, California.
actress 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
The Sister of Purgatory (voice)
Four male friends are reunited after not being in contact with each other for several years. However, the meeting place is Purgatory, the afterlife state of limbo between heaven and hell. In Purgatory, these friends reflect on their pasts while they were living. They especially focus on their years in Catholic School and their coming of age. This film talks a lot about sexual issues. One of the characters is an 18-year old sent to Vietnam who dies without ever losing his virginity and there is a middle-aged, homosexual alcoholic playwright who has still has problems dealing with his identity.
Vulcan High Priestess
Ainda sob o pesar do sacrifício final de Spock, a tripulação da U.S.S. Enterprise volta para a Terra do recém-nascido planeta Genesis. Mas nada vai ser fácil: Scott foi destacado para um outro posto; o Dr. McCoy parece estar vivendo um surto psicótico, e a Enterprise A será desativada.Quando Kirk recebe a visita de Sarek, pai de Spock, descobre que o falecido amigo pode ter a chance de ter uma segunda vida. E para isso, deve retornar a Genesis, onde enfrentará o maior dilema de sua carreira.
Nurse
Medea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason.
Caroline Straulle
A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in, but never check out.
Mrs. Snow
A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.
Aunt Sophie
An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.
Buffalo Cow Head
Richard Harris estrela esta épica e maravilhosa história, que retrata realisticamente a vida dos índios Sioux americanos no início do século XIX. Quando um senhor inglês é capturado por uma tribo indígena Sioux, e é dado de presente à mãe do chefe (Dame Judith Anderson) para ser seu criado. Gradualmente, ele abraça o modo de vida da tribo e apaixona-se pela irmã do Chefe. Mas antes, ele deverá ser aceito com honra e coragem como um guerreiro da tribo. Então, deverá suportar o 'Voto do Sol' - um ritual selvagem com um sacrifício muito além do que qualquer um possa sonhar no mundo civilizado. Um faroeste ímpar, com uma interpretação irretocável de Harris e um figurino perfeito criado pela melhor equipe de pesquisa de arte de Hollywood.
Elizabeth Devlin
A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian border. Entrusted by her father with an unfinished book he was working on before his trip, the young woman becomes engaged in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the young woman ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted - as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries.
Lady Macbeth
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
Paulina
Terrified of being buried alive, a woman installs a phone in her crypt. A few days after her death, the phone suddenly rings and paranormal investigator Nelson Orion is brought in to probe the case.
'Rebecca' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Maggie Shoemaker
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty
Wicked Stepmother
Após a morte do marido, um milionário, a viúva se mostrou uma ótima mãe para os filhos, Maximilian (Henry Silva) e Rupert (Robert Hutton), que eram tratados com todos os mimos. Porém seu enteado, Cinderelo (Jerry Lewis), era tratado como um empregado, trabalhando incansavelmente o dia inteiro nas mais variadas tarefas. Até que um dia, enquanto limpava a piscina, surge diante de Cinderelo seu fada-padrinho (Ed Wynn), que veio para ajudar o enteado, principalmente agora que a princesa Charming (Anna Maria Alberghetti), do grão-ducado da Morovia, chegou na cidade. A princesa deseja escolher um marido e o eleito será alguém de muita sorte, pois além de muito rica ela também é bonita.
Narrator of the final offering
A Christmas Festival was an annual television special by the anthology program Hallmark Hall of Fame. The 1959 event originally aired on December 13, 1959, and marked Elke Sommer's first appearance (in the role of The Princess) on American television.
Tiare
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
Medea
A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
Big Momma
Toda a família está reunida para comemorar o aniversário de Big Daddy. Todos, menos ele, sabem que será o último e que ele está a morrer. Convencido de que está bem de saúde, ele vai aproveitar a oportunidade para dizer todas as verdades que nunca disse a cada um deles, e de acertar as contas com Gooper, o seu filho interesseiro e ambicioso, e com Brick, o seu filho mais novo, alcoólico e com um casamento fracassado com Maggie, "a Gata".
Memnet
A épica vida de Moisés, desde recém-nascido, quando foi colocado nas águas em um cesto e acabou sendo adotado por uma princesa egípcia, até quando descobre sua real condição e decide liderar seu povo que, escravizado pelos egípcios, anseia pela liberdade.
Queen Herodias
No reinado do imperador Tibério, o profeta galileu João Batista prega contra o rei Herodes e a rainha Herodíades. Esta última quer João morto, mas Herodes teme prejudicá-lo devido a uma profecia. Então entra em cena a bela princesa Salomé, a enteada há muito ausente de Herodes. Herodias vê o desejo crescente do rei por Salomé como seu meio de dobrar o rei à sua vontade. Mas Salomé e seu amante Cláudio estão (ao contrário das Escrituras) se aproximando da conversão à nova religião. E a famosa dança climática acabou tendo implicações inesperadas ...
Flo Burnett
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over the man's choice for a new bride. Things get worse when the elder man has his daughter's lover hanged. With the help of an old flame, a gambler, the daughter puts into motion a plan to drive her father from his estate.
Miss Ellen Braithwaite
O competente e correto engenheiro Johnny Munroe (John Wayne) é contratado para construir uma perigosa estrada de ferro numa montanha dos Andes.
Mrs. Callum
Um menino assombrado por pesadelos sobre a noite em que toda a sua família foi assassinada é criado por uma família vizinha na década de 1880. Ele se apaixona por sua adorável irmã adotiva, mas seu desagradável irmão adotivo e tio misterioso o querem morto. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Ellen Morgan
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Mrs. Ivers
Um homem se reencontra com sua amiga de infância e seu marido, que acreditam conhecer a verdade sobre a morte de sua rica tia anos antes. Em 1928, a jovem herdeira Martha Ivers, envolvida em eventos fatais, não fugiu com seu amigo Sam Masterson. Anos mais tarde, Sam retorna para reencontrar Martha, o verdadeiro poder por trás da cidade de Iverstown, e ela se casou com o 'bom menino' Walter O'Neil, agora procurador do distrito. No início, Sam está mais interessado na deslocada loira Toni Marachek do que em seus amigos de infância, mas eles o atraem para uma teia complicada de tramas e objetivos cruzados.
Madame La Sylph
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
Madame Lanlaire
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
Emily Brent
Dez estranhos são convocados para uma ilha remota e, enquanto esperam o misterioso anfitrião aparecer, uma gravação registra acusações sérias sobre cada um dos convidados. Logo eles começam a ser assassinados, um por um. Enquanto os sobreviventes tentam manter o juízo, eles chegam a uma conclusão perturbadora: um deles deve ser o assassino.
Ann Treadwell
Baseado em um conto de Vera Caspary, este mistério sobre o assassinato da personagem principal mostra um detetive se apaixonando pelo retrato dessa bela vítima. Ele investiga três suspeitos para tentar solucionar o crime: um jornalista, o noivo de Laura, a vítima, e sua tia.
Judith Anderson
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
Gerd Bjarnesen
Depois de dois anos sob o domínio alemão, uma pequena vila de pescadores noruegueses se levanta e se revolta contra os nazistas que a ocupam.
Harriet Gordon
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
Madame
A vida tranquila de um pequeno grupo de mafiosos do Brooklin, chefiados por Gloves, toma um rumo inesperado quando um padeiro é assassinado. Eles se envolvem num grande complô gerido por nazistas dentro de Nova Iorque.
Slade
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
Lady Joan Culver
This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max romances the much-older Lady Joan Culver before finding true love in the form of pretty heiress Martha Gray.
Madame Granville
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Mrs. Danvers
Uma jovem de origem humilde (Joan Fontaine) se casa com um riquíssimo nobre inglês (Laurence Olivier), que ainda vive atormentado por lembranças de sua falecida esposa. Após o casamento e já morando na mansão do marido, ela vai gradativamente descobrindo surpreendentes segredos sobre o passado dele.
Ruby Darling
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
