Joyce Carey
Рождение : 1898-03-30, London, England, UK
Смерть : 1993-02-28
История
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Joyce Carey, OBE (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was a British actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1984, and she was performing on television in her nineties. Though never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen. In addition to light comedy, she had a large repertory of Shakespearean roles.
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Miss Monley
Главный герой — секретный агент британской разведки, смерти которого желают и друзья, и враги. Кейн реализует план страшной мести, когда безжалостные бандиты похищают его маленького сына и требуют за мальчика гигантский выкуп, который должен быть выплачен неограненными алмазами.
Newlyweds Samantha and Robert Miller emerge from the church to the sound of cheers. However, the happy scene is disturbed by a cruel practical joke, someone throws a paint-bomb at the bride. Later, upon returning from their honeymoon the couple discover the smashed remnants of their wedding cake and a mysterious gift -- one soiled glove. Could it be a warning? Does someone hold a grudge against the couple?
Aunt Celia
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 Helen Demarest
Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so.
Lady Trowborough
The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he can get his hands on
Miss Sykes
Ветеран Второй мировой войны, страдающий частичной потерей памяти, обвиняется своим бывшим сослуживцем в самозванстве...
Mrs. Thompson
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
Matron
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.
Bird's Nest
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
Ida Garnett
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
Miss Palmer
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
Miss Hopkins
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
Margaret Jarvis
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
Susan Birch
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
Lady Caroline
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Mrs. Vinton
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Myrtle Bagot
Лора Джессон и доктор Алек Харви познакомились в кафе на вокзале и стали встречаться здесь каждую неделю, прекрасно зная, что у их любви нет будущего…
Miss Winterton
Старшина Питер Пенроуз начинает службу в подразделении бомбардировщиков и проходит путь от новичка до опытного лётчика. Он влюбляется в молодую девушку Айрис, которая живёт в отеле недалеко от военной базы. Но Питер не решается попросить руки Айрис, зная, что в любой момент может погибнуть, тем самым обрекая её на горькую участь вдовы...
Violet Bradman
Однажды писатель Чарльз Кондомин со своей второй женой Рут приглашает медиума провести сеанс связи с потусторонним миром в его доме. Чарльз готов на себе испытать присутствие потусторонних сил, дабы потом описать свои наблюдения в будущем романе. Медиум Мадам Аркати, невольно вызывает дух его покойной первой жены Эльвиры — язвительной и капризной блондинки, которая сразу невзлюбила новую супругу Чарльза. С этой минуты, несчастный мужчина становится заложником своего эксперимента. Враждующие жены доводят его до грани безумия. Чарльз всеми мыслимыми и немыслимыми способами пробует избавиться от Эльвиры, но, к сожалению — это невозможно…
Mrs. Hardy / Kath
История команды маленького корабля, знавшей о своей обреченности и все же честно выполнившей долг.
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.