Coral Browne
Nascimento : 1913-07-23, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Morte : 1991-05-29
História
Coral Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian-American stage and screen actress.
Her film appearances included Auntie Mame (1958), The Killing of Sister George (1968), The Ruling Class (1972) and Dreamchild (1985). She was actor Vincent Price's third wife since 1974 when she met him on the set of British film, Theatre of Blood (1973).
A boy becomes a virtuoso pianist, but when he gets too big-headed the piano decides to teach him a lesson.
Alice Hargreaves
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.
Margaret McMann
Dona de casa ganha concurso de ficção e recebe como prêmio uma viagem a Paris. Lá ela sofre um acidente e quando acorda acredita ser Rebecca Ryan, a aventureira personagem de seus livros.
Herself
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Olivia
Um detetive particular da cidade grande viaja para o sul profundo para ajudar uma velha namorada que está preocupada que o marido descubra que ela está traindo ele.
Lady Bracknell
Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.
Chloe Moon
Um ator fracassado planeja sua vingança contra os críticos de arte responsáveis por severas críticas sobre sua interpretação. Horror, comédia e trama Shakespeariana se misturam para compor uma história eletrizante e intensa. As espetaculares mortes foram inspiradas nas cenas de morte das peças de Shakespeare.
Mrs. Warren
Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its audiences. Mrs. Warren has graduated from prostitution to opening and operating a chain of brothels throughout Europe. When her educated daughter Vivie discovers the truth about her mother's profession her reactions affect everyone around her.
Lady Claire Gurney
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez
Adaptation of the play by Brandon Thomas.
Mercy Croft
Adaptação da peça teatral de Frank Marcus, de 1964. June Duckbridge é uma atriz de meia idade cuja vida está desmoronando. A personagem que ela interpreta numa novela da TV vai ser morta. A única oferta de emprego que recebeu é ser a voz da vaca Clarabella. Pior do que isso é o fato dela suspeitar que a sua jovem namorada está tendo um caso com outra mulher.
Molly Luther
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Eleanore von Seidlitz-Gabler
Em 1942, uma prostituta polonesa é assassinada em Varsóvia. A suspeita recai sobre três generais de alto escalão, e o Major Grau da Inteligência Alemã busca justiça apesar das atrocidades cometidas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. As pistas levam Grau de Varsóvia para Paris e direto para o plano de assassinar Adolf Hitler em 1944, no qual dois dos generais estão profundamente envolvidos. O caso de Grau fica inacabado até 1965, quando então o verdadeiro assassino é levado à justiça. (e 16 Anos)
Belle Crippen
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
Mme. Becque
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands.
Colette
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
Meg
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paola to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
Vera Charles
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
Helen
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
Valerie
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.
Virginia Pearson
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.
Iris
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
Pearl
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
Cecile
A British spy falls in love with a singer whose husband is working for the enemy.
Pauline Darville
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
Lady Ruston
British drama film directed by Albert de Courville.
Chic Williams (Pat Hanna) and his friend James Brown (Norman French) elude a private detective who's been following them, and head off to the bush (only later is it revealed that the detective wants to tell James he's inherited a fortune).