Joan Gardner

Joan Gardner

Born: March 7, 1903
Died: April 16, 1972
in Oklahoma, USA
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Joan Gardner (1914–1999) was a British actress. She married Zoltán Korda and had a son, David.

Gardner was born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. She made her stage debut immediately on leaving school and by age 18 had achieved success there. She was seen by Alexander Korda (her future brother-in-law) who signed her to a five-year film contract at London Film Productions, with Wedding Rehearsal being her film debut as one of the Roxbury twins.

Movies for Joan Gardner...

Gay Purr-ee
Title: Gay Purr-ee
Character: Lady From Provence (voice)
Released: October 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Mewsette is a starry-eyed cat who grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris. Her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom, and his furry cohort, Robespierre, chase after Mewsette, but she's already fallen under the spell of a feline modeling-school racket run by Madame Rubens-Chatte and her slimy assistant, Meowrice.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Felicitas - His Daughter
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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The Rebel Son
Title: The Rebel Son
Character: Galka
Released: February 2, 1938
Type: Movie
During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.
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Dark Journey
Title: Dark Journey
Character: Lupita
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
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Forget Me Not
Title: Forget Me Not
Character: Helen Carleton
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
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Wings over Africa
Title: Wings over Africa
Character: Carol Reade
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body addressed to a clerk in London named Wilkins . Cooper goes to Wilkins in London and tells him that his brother, whose body they had found, has left a map and a deed to a large diamond mine. Wilkins decides to go to Africa with Cooper to find the mine and, in order to speed up and finance their venture, they give a third interest to Carol Reade and her partner John Trevor), who operate a barnstorming airplane service. In Africa, close to the mine location, they are greeted by some tough gentlemen named Collins and Quincy who have terrorized the natives and lorded over the region, who quickly discover the reason for the party's mission. They join, unasked, in the race for the diamonds. The race is interrupted by the death of Trevor who is found knifed in his bunk.
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Title: The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Character: Ada Price
Released: July 23, 1936
Type: Movie
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
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Barnacle Bill
Title: Barnacle Bill
Character: Jill Harris
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A conflicted sailor tries to balance his family life with his time at sea.
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Do Not Forget About Me
Title: Do Not Forget About Me
Character: Helen
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way through a touching love story. Features musical selections from "Il Trovatore" and "Rigoletto" as well as a lullaby and some Neapolitan songs, including the title tune. Distributed by New York's Bel Canto Society (an organization of hard-core opera buffs).
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Suzanne de Tournay
Released: December 20, 1934
Type: Movie
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
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The Rise of Catherine the Great
Title: The Rise of Catherine the Great
Character: Katushienka
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Title: The Private Life of Don Juan
Character: Carmen, a Young Lady of Romance
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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The Man Outside
Title: The Man Outside
Character: Peggy Fordyce
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
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Wedding Rehearsal
Title: Wedding Rehearsal
Character: Lady Rose Mary Wroxbury
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
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Men of Tomorrow
Title: Men of Tomorrow
Character: Jane Anderson
Released: September 29, 1932
Type: Movie
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.