Gladys Cooper
Nascimento : 1888-12-18, Chiswick, England, UK
Morte : 1971-11-17
História
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.
Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she played many roles. Beginning in the early 1920s, Cooper was winning praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s, she was starring steadily both in the West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles; she was nominated for three Academy Awards, the last one as Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she mixed her stage and film careers, continuing to star on stage until her last year.
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Grand Duchess Ozerov
Our heroes find themselves at the famed Cannes Film Festival to help foil a plot to murder a former American union boss cum government witness, Kyle Sander. Suspects include the beautiful Marissa and boyfriend, who have a few surprises in store. Lord Sinclair and Danny then travel to Switzerland, where they have to help an elderly Duchess protect her jewels by finding proof of past marriage to a prince.
Aunt Mary
Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine months later.
Aunt Mary Drexel
Um imigrante irlandês chega à Filadélfia em 1916 e consegue emprego como mordomo de um milionário excêntrico. Ele logo percebe que os outros membros da família são igualmente peculiares e têm problemas em manter os empregados, pois o chefe do clã possui jacarés como animais de estimação.
Mrs. Higgins
Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), um intelectual e professor de fonética, aposta que conseguirá, no período máximo de seis meses, transformar Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), uma simples florista de rua que não sabe falar direito, em uma dama. Mas a tarefa se mostra muito mais difícil do que tinha sido imaginada originalmente.
Mrs. Karoudjian
Adrian Messenger pede a um amigo que verifique uma lista de nomes. E sai em uma viagem. Quando seu avião explode no céu a questão torna-se mais grave. Seu amigo começa a verificar a lista e cada nome parece ter morrido em circunstâncias misteriosas. Conforme ele vai descendo a lista, as mortes se tornam mais recentes. Então começa uma corrida para encontrar os sobreviventes restantes e descobrir porque cada um deles foi colocado nesta lista.
Mrs. Railton-Bell
Nomeado em 1958 para 7 prêmios da academia, incluindo Melhor Filme, e ganhador de 2: Melhor Ator para David Niven e Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante para Wendy Hiller. Vidas Separadas é "um filme inteligente e provocante" (Variety) e uma obra-prima cinematográfica repleta de compaixão e uma tocante sensibilidade. Viaje para o Hotel Beauregard, onde todos os excêntricos hóspedes compartilham um mesmo sentimento, a solidão. Veremos o Major Pollack (David Niven), que esconde um tenebroso segredo por trás da superfície polida de um semblante militar; Sibyl Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr), uma tímida e neurótica ex copeira que não tem coragem para livrar-se de sua dominadora mãe: John Malcom (Burt Lancaster), um desencantado escritor que afoga a amargura no álcool; e Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth), cujo narcisismo mascara um profundo medo de envelhecer sozinha e sem amor. Em uma emocionante noite, esses quatro infelizes vão enfrentar seus mais escondidos segredos, e mudar as suas vidas para sempre.
Lady Binfield
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.
Queen Anne
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one! Written by Rod Crawford
Mother Superior
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent so Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the real killer to justice.
Madame Dupuis
Based on the French literary classic, this drama presents author Gustave Flaubert narrating his tale of infidelity and narcissism. After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.
Mrs. Medlock
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
Aunt Inez
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
Mrs. Kirby
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.
Mrs. Hamilton
Um bispo tentando construir uma nova catedral pede a Deus uma orientação. Um anjo (Cary Grant) chega, mas a sua ajuda não é sobre a captação de recursos. Henry Brougham é um bispo dedicado à nova construção de uma catedral que será paga pela viúva Agnes Hamilton. Dudley, um anjo, é enviado pelo céu para ajudá-lo. Mas Dudley acaba sendo tão prestativo e bondoso para todos que Henry acaba se sentindo ameaçado.
Sophie Patourel
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.
Amy Griggs
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
Mrs. Klara Condor
A paraplegic mistakes a man's pity for love.
Grandma Leckie
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
Beatrice Remington
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
Clarissa Scott
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
Alice - Dutchess de Brancourt
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Jean Ashwood
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.
Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
Bernadette é uma jovem camponesa que vive na França. Quando ela conta aos vizinhos que viu uma bela senhora no caminho para casa, todos assumem que se trata da Virgem Maria. Bernadette é considerada louca por uns, e santa por outros.
Miss Haskell
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Captain Veronica Steadman
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
Mrs. Barringer
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.
Mrs. Henry Vale
Uma filha é controlada pela mãe, que lhe determina tudo que deve fazer. Um dia um famoso psiquiatra vai na sua casa e a vê prestes a ter um ataque de nervos. O psiquiatra lhe recomenda algumas semanas em uma casa de repouso, que ele administra. Quando ela sai da clínica faz uma viagem de navio até o Rio de Janeiro e, na viagem, sente-se altamente atraída por um homem casado, que tem sentimentos recíprocos. Ao voltar para casa ela é uma mulher muito diferente, que agora age e pensa por conta própria, não aceitando mais as imposições da mãe.
Aunt Emmeline
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Iris Cathaway
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Maxine Wood
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
Myrna Hartley
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Lady Francis Nelson
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Mrs. Strafford
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
Beatrice Lacy
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.
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Flora MacDonald
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Arlene Arnheim
A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
Mabel Vane
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
