Ursula Jeans
Рождение : 1906-05-05, Simla, Punjab, India
Смерть : 1973-04-21
История
Ursula Jeans was an English film, stage, and television actress, married to the actor Roger Livesey, with whom she appeared in 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'.
Lady Anthea
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
Dorothy Winters
An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
Miss Tesman
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
Mrs. Rafferty
After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Joseph Bartell. He wants Greg to test out his latest invention, a heat resistant car tire, in actual racing competition.
Lady Windham
Индия, Северо-Западная пограничная провинции, 1905 год. Капитану Скотту предстоит вывезти из осажденного восставшими племенами города Хазирабада юного принца Кишана. Британцам удается удерживаться в провинции благодаря давнему противостоянию мусульман и индуистов. В случае гибели Кишана, британцам не на кого будет опираться и им придется оставить северо-западную часть Индии. Прорваться сквозь линию блокады и вывезти принца собираются на старом паровозе модели "Виктория" с единственном вагоном. В поезде подбирается пестрая компания из американской гувернантки принца, жены губернатора, английского чиновника, журналиста и торговца оружием, двух сипаев и машиниста паровоза. Им предстоит 300 километровый рейд по охваченной восстанием территории. Опасность грозит и изнутри, среди пассажиров - агент мятежников.
Mrs. Wallis
В мае 1943 года эскадрилья бомбардировщиков "Ланкастер" разрушила две дамбы в Рурской долине в Германии, используя оригинальное оружие - "прыгающую бомбу". Этот фильм рассказывает о создании и применении этого оружия.
Mrs Robertson
At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.
Martha Dacre
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
Lorna Blake
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
Isobel Forbes
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Frau Heinkes
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.
Frau von Kalteneck
О жизни Клайва Кэнди, британского солдата. Она показана в эпизодах, начиная с 1902 года, когда он сделал блестящую карьеру молодого офицера в Бурской войне, до 1943 года, когда он скрипучим, старческим голосом рассказывает о времени бомбежки Лондона, размышляет о потерянной молодости и любви.
Millie
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
Gertrude
Во время Первой Мировой Войны Стокгольм представлял собой рассадник международного шпионажа. Мадлен - британский двойной агент, поставляющая ложную информацию от союзников по Антанте немецкому штабу в Париже. Но она еще, и прекрасная молодая женщина, а потому неожиданно влюбляется в учтивого барона, оказавшегося главой немецкой Секретной Службы.
Двум влюбленным, находящимся по разные стороны баррикад, предстоит испытать невероятной силы чувства и эмоции, а жизнь и честь их будет подвергаться нешуточным испытаниям с самого начала этой удивительной приключенческой истории, которая держит зрителя в напряжении до самого конца фильма.
Lisbet Skirving
Франк Бердон — новый репортер в провинциальной шотландской газете. Ему поручено взять интервью у местного политического деятеля Уильяма Гоу. Журналист узнает о скандальной истории с Гоу и решает опубликовать ее, вместо ожидаемого положительного репортажа. Отношения накаляются и перерастают в уголовное дело, но одновременно, Бердон влюбляется в дочь Гоу, Викторию.
Veronica
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
Eileen Jackson
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Gladys Wallis
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
Lady Violet
'Lady Violet and Harry Newman are engaged. Corry, a jealous rival, employs Mabell, a night-club dancer, to make love to Harry when drunk and demand money from Harry's father for letters she has written to the son.' (Kinematograph Weekly)
Fanny Bridges
Фильм «Кавалькада» охватывает исторический период с празднования 1899 Нового года до 31 декабря 1933. Перед глазами героев проходят такие события, как англо-бурская война, смерть королевы Виктории, кораблекрушение «Титаника» и Первая мировая война.
Ethel Standish
British crime film directed by Henry Edwards
Joan Collinson
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
Clare
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Morella Arlen
Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
Rose Pom Pom
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Vera, the Maid
Профессор Эпплби терроризировал свою жену Элеонору, но когда он был убит, а ее любовник Дерек пропал без вести, Элеонора подозревает худшее. Появляется таинственный незнакомец, известный как «мистер Куинни» или «мистер Куин», и начинает соблазнять Элеонору, но его алкоголизм берет верх, и он умирает. Перед смертью он показывает, что все это время был Дереком, и предлагает девушку сопернику, который обещает сделать Элеонору счастливой женой.