Googie Withers

Googie Withers

Born: March 12, 1917
Died: July 15, 2011
in Karachi, British India
Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers CBE, AO was a British entertainer who had a lengthy career in theatre, film, and television.

Movies for Googie Withers...

Forever Ealing
Title: Forever Ealing
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2002
Type: Movie
This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions
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Shine
Title: Shine
Character: Katharine Susannah Prichard
Released: August 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
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Country Life
Title: Country Life
Character: Hannah
Released: October 27, 1994
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action begins when Alexander returns with his beautiful young wife Deborah, revealing himself as an arrogant failure and wanting to sell the farm out from under Jack. Blakemore introduces themes about Australia's separation from England, as well as expanding the pacifist and ecological philosophies espoused by the local Doctor Max Askey.
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Ending Up
Title: Ending Up
Character: Marigold
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A traditional rural English Christmas, reluctantly spent with the predominantly geriatric family (who all have their quirks and eccentricities) ends in tragedy after a practical joke goes horribly wrong.
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Title: Melba
Character: Lady Armstrong
Released: March 22, 1988
Type: TV
The story of opera soprano Dame Nellie Melba.
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Northanger Abbey
Title: Northanger Abbey
Character: Mrs Allen
Released: February 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A tale of intrigue, adventure and romance, this enchanting, remastered dramatization captures the romance of Jane Austin's classic novel "Northanger Abbey".
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Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Title: Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Character: Interviewee
Released: May 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.
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Hotel du Lac
Title: Hotel du Lac
Character: Mrs. Pusey
Released: March 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.
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Time After Time
Title: Time After Time
Character: Leda Klein
Released: January 26, 1986
Type: Movie
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.
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Title: Within These Walls
Released: January 4, 1974
Type: TV
Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison TV series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the prison staff rather than the inmates. The lead character was the well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell, and episodes revolved around her attempts to liberalise the prison regime while managing her personal life at home. Another prominent character was her Chief Officer, Mrs. Armitage. Googie Withers left after three series; in Series Four her character was replaced as governor by Helen Forrester, who in turn left to be replaced in the final Series Five by Susan Marshall. The creator and writer of the programme, David Butler, played the prison chaplain, the Rev Henry Prentice, in some episodes. As of November 2011 Network DVD have released all five series in the UK, with the exception of "Nowhere for the Kids", an episode from Series Two which appears to have been wiped from the archives.
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Nickel Queen
Title: Nickel Queen
Released: March 31, 1971
Type: Movie
Nickel Queen was an Australian comedy film released in 1971 starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum. The story was loosely based on the Poseidon bubble, a nickel boom in Western Australia in the late 1960s, and tells of an outback pub owner who stakes a claim and finds herself an overnight millionaire.
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Port of Escape
Title: Port of Escape
Character: Anne Stirling
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
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Devil on Horseback
Title: Devil on Horseback
Character: Mrs. Cadell
Released: March 17, 1954
Type: Movie
A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey
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Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Betty Molloy
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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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Sitter in Bath Studio
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Lady Godiva Rides Again
Title: Lady Godiva Rides Again
Character: Susan Foster (actress in clip, "The Shadow of the Orient") (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1951
Type: Movie
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
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White Corridors
Title: White Corridors
Character: Dr. Sophie Dean
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
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Traveller's Joy
Title: Traveller's Joy
Character: Bumble Pelham
Released: December 25, 1950
Type: Movie
A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.
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Night and the City
Title: Night and the City
Character: Helen Nosseross
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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Once Upon a Dream
Title: Once Upon a Dream
Character: Carol Gilbert
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
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Miranda
Title: Miranda
Character: Clare Martin
Released: April 6, 1948
Type: Movie
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
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It Always Rains on Sunday
Title: It Always Rains on Sunday
Character: Rose Sandigate
Released: November 28, 1947
Type: Movie
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
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The Loves of Joanna Godden
Title: The Loves of Joanna Godden
Character: Joanna Godden
Released: June 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
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Pink String and Sealing Wax
Title: Pink String and Sealing Wax
Character: Pearl Bond
Released: November 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).
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Dead of Night
Title: Dead of Night
Character: Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
Released: September 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
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They Came to a City
Title: They Came to a City
Character: Alice
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
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On Approval
Title: On Approval
Character: Helen Hale
Released: May 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
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The Silver Fleet
Title: The Silver Fleet
Character: Helène van Leyden
Released: March 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
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We Serve
Title: We Serve
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Title: One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Character: Jo de Vries
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.
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Back-Room Boy
Title: Back-Room Boy
Character: Bobbie
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
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Busman's Honeymoon
Title: Busman's Honeymoon
Character: Polly
Released: July 22, 1940
Type: Movie
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
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She Couldn't Say No
Title: She Couldn't Say No
Character: Dora
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Alice Forrest
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
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Trouble Brewing
Title: Trouble Brewing
Character: Mary Brown
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
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Murder in Soho
Title: Murder in Soho
Character: Lola Matthews
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
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Dead Men Are Dangerous
Title: Dead Men Are Dangerous
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
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The Lady Vanishes
Title: The Lady Vanishes
Character: Blanche
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
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Convict 99
Title: Convict 99
Character: Lottie
Released: September 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
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Strange Boarders
Title: Strange Boarders
Character: Elsie
Released: May 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
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Kate Plus Ten
Title: Kate Plus Ten
Character: Lady Moya
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
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Paradise for Two
Title: Paradise for Two
Character: Miki
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
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The Green Cockatoo
Title: The Green Cockatoo
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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Action for Slander
Title: Action for Slander
Character: Mary
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
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Pearls Bring Tears
Title: Pearls Bring Tears
Character: Doreen
Released: March 20, 1937
Type: Movie
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
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Accused
Title: Accused
Character: Ninette Duval
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime.
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Crime Over London
Title: Crime Over London
Character: Miss Dupres
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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Crown v. Stevens
Title: Crown v. Stevens
Character: Ella Levine
Released: August 3, 1936
Type: Movie
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance
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All at Sea
Title: All at Sea
Character: Daphne Tomkins
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
When mild mannered Joe comes into an inheritance, he leaves his job as a clerk, and embarks on a sea cruise. Posing as a successful writer, Joe attracts various attractive women to him on the voyage, but his deceptions start to land him in trouble.
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Dark World
Title: Dark World
Character: Annie
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
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Her Last Affaire
Title: Her Last Affaire
Character: Effie
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes awry when he becomes implicated in her sudden death.
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The Love Test
Title: The Love Test
Character: Minnie
Released: June 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Romance set in a chemical factory.