Betsy Blair
Nascimento : 1923-12-11, Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA
Morte : 2009-03-13
História
Betsy Blair -December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London. Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in 1940. There she met Gene Kelly. They were married the following year, when she was seventeen years old. The couple divorced sixteen years later, in 1957. After work in the theatre, Blair began her film career playing supporting roles in films such as A Double Life (1947) and Another Part of the Forest (1948). Her interest in Marxism led to an investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee and Blair was blacklisted for some time, but resumed her career with a critically acclaimed performance in Marty (1955), winning a BAFTA Award and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She continued her career with regular theatre, film and television work until the mid 1990s.
Herself
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Self
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and developed different cinematique techniques, such as brilliantly shot dancing sequences.
Grace Simpson
Robert Young brings his Marcus Welby alter ego to television for one last time. Having retired, the good doctor takes a trip to Europe alone and falls in love with an American divorcee who is caring for a blind dancer.
Gladys Simmons
Um radialista judeu é violentamente assassinado, e para investigar o caso o FBI designa a agente Cathy Weaver, que se envolve emocionalmente com o principal suspeito, Gary Simmons. Rapidamente ela descobre algo mais aterrorizante: Gary faz parte de uma organização neonazista que planeja eliminar negros e judeus em nome da supremacia da raça pura americana.
Lady McLaidlaw
A powerfully tense remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, this British production of SUSPICION boasts a dynamic cast, making it a worthy descendent of the original.
Mrs. Burns
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...
Helen
Drama starring Karen Black, Betsy Blair and Dennis Christopher
Edna
Uma família abastada de Connecticut é derrubada quando os padrinhos da filha adulta, tomados por um terror inominável, decidem vir morar com eles. Em Connecticut, Agnes e Tobias são um casal de classe alta, cuja relação tem sido desconfortável por muitos anos, desde pelo menos o tempo em que seu filho morreu; mas eles conseguiram encontrar um certo padrão confortável de inquietação. A irmã de Agnes, Claire, mora com eles e insiste que seu costume de sempre beber não é alcoolismo, mas obstinação. Sua filha, Julia, prestes a ter seu quarto divórcio, voltou para casa. Inesperadamente, seu quarto foi tomado por Harry e Edna, melhores amigos de Tobias e Agnes que assolados por um terror sem nome que os expulsou de sua própria casa, decidiram ficar com os amigos. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Vrouw van garagist
One day a garage owner finds an atomic bomb that has been lost by an airplane. He hides the bomb and shakes the country when he announces that he will not return the bomb until the production of such weapons of destruction is stopped.
Second English Teacher
Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. But while he has dreams of settling down with a family, she just wants to have fun. When Isabelle becomes pregnant, Claude is advised by both families to marry but things get more complicated when he meets an English woman.
Amalia Brentani
Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and coquettish young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.
Emily
Este filme, baseado em Othello, de William Shakespeare, está bem posicionado como um veículo para mostrar alguns dos melhores músicos de jazz da época, incluindo Dave Brubeck e Charles Mingus. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Contessa Rita Cherè
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.
Mother
In a working-class Jewish family in Dublin, a young boy becomes increasingly close to an old orthodox Jew and assimilates his views, much to the dismay of his family.
Elvia
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Martha Halliday
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
Isabel
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.
Nancy Blanding
Clara Snyder
Marty Piletti é um açougueiro ítalo-americano, tímido e solitário, e que vive no Bronx em Nova Iorque. Ele acredita que nunca nenhuma mulher se interessará por ele mas, por insistência de sua mãe, ele sai uma noite para dançar e conhece uma professora, que se sente tão rejeitada quanto ele. A insegurança dos dois, porém, é um entrave que pode prejudicar a relação deles.
Ada Elcott
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Os irmãos Biddle, baleados enquanto roubavam um posto de gasolina, são levados para a ala da prisão do Hospital Municipal; Ray Biddle, um racista radical, não quer tratamento do residente negro Dr. Luther Brooks. Quando o irmão John morre enquanto Lutero tenta salvá-lo, Ray tem certeza de que é um assassinato e se torna obcecado pela vingança. Mas também há racistas negros, e a situação desliza rapidamente em direção à violência. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Jackie Elcott
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Hester
Uma crônica detalhada da estadia de uma mulher em uma instituição mental. Virginia Cunningham se encontra em um asilo de loucos... E não consegue se lembrar de como chegou lá. Em flashback, seu marido Robert relata seu namoro, casamento e seus sintomas em desenvolvimento. O pessoal do asilo não é demonizado, mas o medo, a ignorância e os preconceitos mantêm a Virgínia em um estado de miséria, enquanto o Dr. Mark Kik luta para encontrar a raiz de seu problema. Mas uma recaída leva Virgínia de volta para a angustiante 'Cova da Serpente' ...
Birdie Bagtry
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
Girl in Wig Shop
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Katie
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
