Helen Hayes
Nascimento : 1900-10-10, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Morte : 1993-03-17
História
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since.
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Follow the twists and turns of his life, legacy and legal battle as America's former favourite 'Dad' faces allegations from 60 women, spanning as far back as the '60s.
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Herself - Participant
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Miss Jane Marple
When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.
Miss Jane Marple
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Lavinia Fullerton
American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she's murdered after disembarking the train. Williams vows to pursue the case himself
Herself
Documentary about painter Edward Hopper and his wife.
Emma Long
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Lady St. Edmund
Quando o trapaceiro Harry fica sabendo que um tesouro secreto está escondido dentro de Candleshoe, uma propriedade inglesa, ele cria um elaborado plano para encontrar e roubar o prêmio. Ao convencer uma garota chamada Casey para se passar por uma neta perdida do dono da propriedade, Harry espera descobrir a localização do tesouro. Mas quando Casey muda de ideia, ela precisa encontrar o tesouro, a fim de salvar Candleshoe e impedir Harry antes que seja tarde demais. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Etta Grossman-Wise
Filme relata a operação israelense que resgatou um avião sequestrado por palestinos em Uganda.
Hettie
Filme sobre o roubo de um esqueleto de dinossauro do Museu de História Natural, cujos ossos guardam um precioso segredo: a misteriosa fórmula "Lotus X".
Mrs. Steinmetz
Quando um ambicioso milionário decide construir um arranha-céu no terreno de uma bondosa senhora, Herbie, o fusquinha com personalidade própria, decide ajudá-la.
Ernesta Snoop
A spinster and her widowed sister, who are the authors of murder-mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. This TV pilot film became a series of rotating movies the following season.
Veta Louise Simmons
Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plans to marry off her daughter. However, when she decides to put Elwood in a mental institution, a mix-up occurs, and she finds herself committed instead. It's now up to Elwood and "Harvey" to straighten out the mess.
Sophie Tate Curtis
Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
Ada Quonsett
Durante uma forte nevasca que ameaça fechar o funcionamento de um aeroporto, Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster), o gerente encarregado, deve se virar para lidar com uma ameaça de um psicopata em explodir um avião.
Abby Brewster
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Narrator
Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc, pointing out the need for vigilance and action to protect democracy in the U.S. and abroad.
Cornelia Van Gorder
A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities supposedly hidden in the rambling mansion owned by spinster Cornelia Van Gorde.
Hotel guest (uncredited)
Filme sobre um jovem aventureiro que apesar de perder seu pai escalando uma montanha irá tentar subir uma montanha jamais escalada.
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
Com a revolução russa em 1917, o Czar Nicolau II e sua família foram capturados e executados, mas segundo rumores, sua filha mais nova Anastácia havia sobrevivido e vivia na Europa. Anos depois, um ex-general russo, que vive de um empreendimento fraudulento envolvendo a herança real, precisa provar aos seus investidores a existência da princesa, e se utiliza de uma mulher perturbada e sem identidade para assumir o papel de Anastácia.
Herself
A closed-circuit television special produced to raise funds for the relief agency CARE telecast live from the Adelphi Theatre in New York.
Self
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Lucille Jefferson
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
Helen Hayes
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
Self (archive footage)
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Self
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
Vanessa Paris
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Maggie Wylie
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Madame Fabian
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Stella Hallam
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
Angela Chiaromonte
An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
Lian Wha
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
Catherine Barkley
Henry é um oficial americano que, durante as batalhas da Primeira Guerra, é ferido em ação. Ele, então, recebe cuidados de uma enfermeira britânica e acaba apaixonando-se por ela. Para viver este amor, eles fogem dos horrores da guerra.
Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Madelon Claudet
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Olive Pepperall
Young kids face off in a dance competition.
