Margaret Yarde

Margaret Yarde

Born: April 2, 1878
Died: March 11, 1944
in Dartmouth, Devon, England, UK

Movies for Margaret Yarde...

Two Fathers
Title: Two Fathers
Released: January 19, 1944
Type: Movie
An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.
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Tomorrow We Live
Title: Tomorrow We Live
Character: Fauntel
Released: April 5, 1943
Type: Movie
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co-operation of General de Gaulle and the French National Committee". It was released as "At Dawn We Die" in the US.
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Thursday's Child
Title: Thursday's Child
Character: Mrs. Chard
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
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Down Our Street
Title: Down Our Street
Released: April 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A Ministry of Information film, in which three women, all from one street but different class backgrounds, mysteriously congregate at one house. Their paths may rarely have crossed in pre-war society, yet the experience of war appears to have helped remove some of their class prejudices. After all, these three housewives now share a common interest, their sons all serve in the armed forces.
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From the Four Corners
Title: From the Four Corners
Character: Woman Who Greets Soldiers (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.
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George and Margaret
Title: George and Margaret
Character: Cook
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
The Frictions of a suburban family come to boiling point.
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Henry Steps Out
Title: Henry Steps Out
Character: Cynthia Smith
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
On the outbreak of the Second World War an idler is forced to join the army by his domineering wife.
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Crimes at the Dark House
Title: Crimes at the Dark House
Character: Mrs. Bullen
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
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French Without Tears
Title: French Without Tears
Character: Marianne
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in France, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates. Alan (Ray Milland), one of the students, successfully resists Diana's charms-meaning of course that Alan and Diana will be in each other's arms by fadeout time. (AllMovie)
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Released: July 29, 1939
Type: Movie
1939 BBC studio production of Peggy Barwell’s play Prison without Bars, set in a girls’ reformatory, which was adapted from a German play by Gina Kaus and Otto Edgar Eis. An inmate of a girl's reformatory competes with its superintendent for the affections of its young doctor.
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The Face at the Window
Title: The Face at the Window
Character: La Pinan
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1880, the criminal called The Wolf is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is murdered, the wealthy Chevalier Lucio del Gardo is the only chance to save the bank. Chevalier proposes to the owner M. de Brisson to deposit a large amount of gold, but in return he would like to marry his daughter Cecile. However, Cecile is in love with the efficient clerk Lucien Cortier that belongs to the lower classes and refuses the engagement. In order to get rid off the rival, Chevalier uses evidences to incriminate Lucien, manipulating the incompetent Parisian chief of police.
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Character: Mlle. Artemise
Released: September 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
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You Live and Learn
Title: You Live and Learn
Character: Mrs. Biddle
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett (Hulbert), who falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society. The couple return to England and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.
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Secret Lives
Title: Secret Lives
Character: Bakery Customer (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
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Beauty and the Barge
Title: Beauty and the Barge
Character: Mrs. Porton
Released: February 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
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No Exit
Title: No Exit
Character: Bunty
Released: November 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
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Queen of Hearts
Title: Queen of Hearts
Character: Mrs. Porter
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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Gypsy Melody
Title: Gypsy Melody
Character: Grand Duchess
Released: July 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Due to a complex series of events a Guards Officer in a small European country is imprisoned. He manages to escape in the company of an idiotic milliner and they briefly take shelter with some gypsies, where the Captain falls in love with a young woman. Having been discovered by an American promoter while performing with gypsy orchestra in a tavern, the three accompany him to London as the latest new musical sensation. A great success, they begin a European-wide tour when their plane is forced down by bad weather in their homeland. Here events are satisfactorily resolved.
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In the Soup
Title: In the Soup
Character: Mrs. Bates
Released: April 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.
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Faithful
Title: Faithful
Character: Mrs. Kemp
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A musical drama about two pupils from a provincial music conservatory who elope, marry, and move to London to try their luck. The husband becomes a singer in a nightclub, and is soon targeted by a predatory socialite. They start an affair, the wife finds out about it and decides to leave her husband, until matters are smoothed over by a third-party who wishes the couple well.
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The Dream Doctor
Title: The Dream Doctor
Character: Lady Avon
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Scrooge's Laundress
Released: November 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
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The Deputy Drummer
Title: The Deputy Drummer
Character: Margaret Yarde
Released: September 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working unnoticed upstairs.
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Man of the Moment
Title: Man of the Moment
Character: Landlady
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
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It Happened in Paris
Title: It Happened in Paris
Character: Marthe
Released: June 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
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Squibs
Title: Squibs
Character: Mrs. Lee
Released: June 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined policeman.
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18 Minutes
Title: 18 Minutes
Character: Marie
Released: April 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.
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Sing As We Go
Title: Sing As We Go
Character: Mrs Parkinson
Released: September 13, 1934
Type: Movie
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
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Tiger Bay
Title: Tiger Bay
Character: Fay
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Kate Browne
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
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Matinee Idol
Title: Matinee Idol
Character: Mrs. Clappit
Released: August 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
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The Man from Toronto
Title: The Man from Toronto
Character: Mrs. Hubbard
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Title: The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: May 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
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Michael and Mary
Title: Michael and Mary
Character: Mrs. Tullivant
Released: October 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
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Let's Love and Laugh
Title: Let's Love and Laugh
Character: Bride's Mother
Released: May 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A young bachelor gets drunk on the eve of his wedding - and marries a dancer.
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Third Time Lucky
Title: Third Time Lucky
Character: Mrs. Clutterbuck
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
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Uneasy Virtue
Title: Uneasy Virtue
Character: Mrs. Robinson
Released: February 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
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The Woman Between
Title: The Woman Between
Character: Mrs Robinson
Released: January 22, 1931
Type: Movie
An Earl's daughter is torn between loving opposing parliamentary candidates.
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Night Birds
Title: Night Birds
Character: Mrs. Hallick
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
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The Crooked Billet
Title: The Crooked Billet
Released: March 21, 1930
Type: Movie
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
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London
Title: London
Character: Eliza Critten
Released: June 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.