Margot Grahame

Margot Grahame

Born: February 20, 1911
Died: January 1, 1982
in Canterbury, England, UK
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Margot Grahame (20 February 1911 – 1 January 1982) was an English actress most noted for starring in The Informer and The Crimson Pirate. She started acting in 1930 and made her last screen appearance in 1958.

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Saint Joan
Title: Saint Joan
Character: Duchesse de la Tremouille
Released: May 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
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Orders Are Orders
Title: Orders Are Orders
Character: Wanda Sinclair
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
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The Beggar's Opera
Title: The Beggar's Opera
Character: The Actress
Released: August 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
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Venetian Bird
Title: Venetian Bird
Character: Rosa Melitus
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
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The Crimson Pirate
Title: The Crimson Pirate
Character: Bianca
Released: September 27, 1952
Type: Movie
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
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Naughty Arlette
Title: Naughty Arlette
Character: Helen Dickson
Released: November 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
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Black Magic
Title: Black Magic
Character: Mme. du Barry
Released: August 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
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Broken Journey
Title: Broken Journey
Character: Joanna Dane
Released: April 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
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The Fabulous Joe
Title: The Fabulous Joe
Character: Emily Terkel
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!
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The Buccaneer
Title: The Buccaneer
Character: Annette de Remy
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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Fight for Your Lady
Title: Fight for Your Lady
Character: Marcia Trent
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Title: Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
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The Soldier and the Lady
Title: The Soldier and the Lady
Character: Zangarra
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
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Criminal Lawyer
Title: Criminal Lawyer
Character: Madge Carter
Released: January 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
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Night Waitress
Title: Night Waitress
Character: Helen Roberts
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
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Make Way for a Lady
Title: Make Way for a Lady
Character: Valerie Broughton
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
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Crime Over London
Title: Crime Over London
Character: Pearl - Gang Moll
Released: October 21, 1936
Type: Movie
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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Counterfeit
Title: Counterfeit
Character: Aimee Maxwell
Released: May 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: Marie Smith
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Milady de Winter
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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The Arizonian
Title: The Arizonian
Character: Kitty Rivers
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
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The Informer
Title: The Informer
Character: Katie Madden
Released: May 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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The Broken Melody
Title: The Broken Melody
Character: Simone St. Cloud
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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Sorrell and Son
Title: Sorrell and Son
Character: Mrs. Dora Sorrell
Released: March 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
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I Adore You
Title: I Adore You
Character: Margot Grahame
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Norman Young wants to marry Margot Grahame but a contract with a producer prohibits her from marrying during a five year period. Norman spends millions to take over the contact.
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Prince of Arcadia
Title: Prince of Arcadia
Character: Mirana
Released: July 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman.
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Yes, Mr. Brown
Title: Yes, Mr. Brown
Character: Clary Baumann
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The manager of a foreign branch of an American toy company attempts to entertain his visiting American boss to obtain a partnership.
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Timbuctoo
Title: Timbuctoo
Character: Elizabeth
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Illegal
Title: Illegal
Character: Dorothy Turner
Released: April 26, 1932
Type: Movie
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
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The Innocents of Chicago
Title: The Innocents of Chicago
Character: Lil
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
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Stamboul
Title: Stamboul
Character: Countess Elsa Talven
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire
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Creeping Shadows
Title: Creeping Shadows
Character: Gloria Paget
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
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The Rosary
Title: The Rosary
Character: Mary Edwards
Released: July 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
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Glamour
Title: Glamour
Character: Lady Betty Enfield
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
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Uneasy Virtue
Title: Uneasy Virtue
Character: Stella Tolhurst
Released: February 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
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The Love Habit
Title: The Love Habit
Character: Julie Dubois
Released: January 16, 1931
Type: Movie
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Compromising Daphne
Title: Compromising Daphne
Character: Muriel
Released: October 21, 1930
Type: Movie
A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.
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Rookery Nook
Title: Rookery Nook
Character: Clara Popkiss
Released: February 11, 1930
Type: Movie
A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.