Toni Edgar-Bruce

Toni Edgar-Bruce

Born: June 3, 1892
Died: March 28, 1966
in London, England, UK

Movies for Toni Edgar-Bruce...

Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Mrs. Harbottle-Smith
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
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Heaven Is Round the Corner
Title: Heaven Is Round the Corner
Character: Mrs. Harcourt
Released: April 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
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Somewhere on Leave
Title: Somewhere on Leave
Character: Mrs. Desmond
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Private Randle (Frank Randle) and army pals, Privates Young (Dan Young) and Enoch (Robbie Vincent) are invited by Private Desmond (Pat McGrath) to spend some off-duty time at his stately home. Private Desmond is too busy courting an ATS girl (Antoinette Lupino) to notice the squaddies are running riot in his house.
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The First of the Few
Title: The First of the Few
Character: Lady Houston
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.
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Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Title: Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Character: Mrs. Wilberforce
Released: August 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war.
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Return to Yesterday
Title: Return to Yesterday
Character: Passenger on Train (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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Boys Will Be Girls
Title: Boys Will Be Girls
Character: Mrs. Jenkins
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
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Captain Bill
Title: Captain Bill
Character: Lady Kipps
Released: November 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
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Nell Gwyn
Title: Nell Gwyn
Character: Minor role (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
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The Broken Melody
Title: The Broken Melody
Character: Vera
Released: May 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Mrs Mannering
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Title: The Private Life of Henry VIII
Character: Spectator at Executions (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Heads We Go
Title: Heads We Go
Character: Lady Abercrombie
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
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Falling for You
Title: Falling for You
Character: Aunt Alice
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
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Leave It to Me
Title: Leave It to Me
Character: Lady Constance
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
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As Good as New
Title: As Good as New
Character: Nurse Adams
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man.
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Diamond Cut Diamond
Title: Diamond Cut Diamond
Character: Miss Loftus
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
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Lucky Girl
Title: Lucky Girl
Character: Duchess Amelia
Released: June 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun. An invitation to a party held by Duke Hugo seems just the ticket, but the presence of jewel thieves in the vicinity soon puts paid to any ideas of a relaxing evening!
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Mr. Bill the Conqueror
Title: Mr. Bill the Conqueror
Character: Lady Blagden
Released: May 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker
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Brother Alfred
Title: Brother Alfred
Character: Mrs. Vandaline
Released: April 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Vaudevillian Gene Gerrard stars as George, a young man on a yacht moored off Monte Carlo who has a tiff with his fiancée, goes ashore on a glorious binge, then finds himself accused of assaulting a prince! When he attempts to extricate himself by pretending to be his non-existent twin brother, he finds he's really in trouble...
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A Warm Corner
Title: A Warm Corner
Character: Lady Bayswater
Released: September 29, 1930
Type: Movie
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
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Charles Augustus Milverton
Title: Charles Augustus Milverton
Character: Lady Eva Bracknell
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: