Irene Browne

Irene Browne

Born: June 28, 1896
Died: July 24, 1965
in London, England, UK
Irene Browne was born on June 29, 1896 in London, England. She was an actress, known for The Red Shoes (1948), Cavalcade (1933) and Pygmalion (1938). She died on July 24, 1965 in London.

British-born leading actress with long stage experience, beginning in 1910 with 'Robert Macaire'. Appeared in the West End production of 'No,No Nanette' (1925), followed by Noel Coward's 'Cavalcade'. She was also in the Hollywood screen version of 'Cavalcade' (1933), but was subsequently relegated to supporting roles and eventually returned to the London stage.

She played Lady Ann(e) Pettigrew in both Berkeley Square (1933) and its remake I'll Never Forget You (1951). Although she played Colin Keith-Johnston, Valerie Taylor and Heather Angel's mother in Berkeley Square (1933), she was only three months older than Keith-Johnston, six years older than Taylor and twelve years older than Angel in real life.

Miss Browne pronounced her first name Eye-REE-nee.

Movies for Irene Browne...

The Wrong Arm of the Law
Title: The Wrong Arm of the Law
Character: Dowager
Released: March 17, 1963
Type: Movie
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
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Serious Charge
Title: Serious Charge
Character: Mrs Phillips
Released: April 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears being a spinster, wants to be his wife. He tells her he's not interested. When he confronts a tough kid about something the youth has done, the lad sets out to frame the vicar. Hester, who's walked in on the confrontation, backs the youth's story. The town sides with her and the lad, turning against Phillips. He has a crisis of faith. What options does he have; can no one help him, his reputation, or his calling?
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Rooney
Title: Rooney
Character: Mrs Manning ffrench
Released: March 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
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Barnacle Bill
Title: Barnacle Bill
Character: Mrs. Barrington
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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The House in the Square
Title: The House in the Square
Character: Lady Anne Pettigrew
Released: December 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefather's cousin, Helen, but his contemporaries of 1784 are perplexed by his strange talk and the odd knowledge he possesses. Remake of Berkeley Square (1933).
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Madeleine
Title: Madeleine
Character: Mrs. Grant
Released: February 16, 1950
Type: Movie
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
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Trottie True
Title: Trottie True
Character: Duchess (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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The Bad Lord Byron
Title: The Bad Lord Byron
Character: Lady Melbourne
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Lady Bland
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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The Red Shoes
Title: The Red Shoes
Character: Lady Neston
Released: September 6, 1948
Type: Movie
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
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Meet Me at Dawn
Title: Meet Me at Dawn
Character: Mme. Renault
Released: February 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A young man makes his living in Paris in 1900 by fighting duels on behalf of other parties. He is hired to injure a leading politician and starts to get involved with a girl he uses to provoke the challenge. One newspaper, hostile to the politician, headlines the story of the impending duel asking who this Madame X is. Problem is, she is in fact the daughter of the paper's proprietor if only he knew it.
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The Prime Minister
Title: The Prime Minister
Character: Lady Londonderry
Released: March 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Duchess
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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The Amateur Gentleman
Title: The Amateur Gentleman
Character: Lady Huntstanton
Released: April 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
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My Lips Betray
Title: My Lips Betray
Character: Queen Mother Therese
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.
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Berkeley Square
Title: Berkeley Square
Character: Lady Ann Pettigrew
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Peg o' My Heart
Title: Peg o' My Heart
Character: Mrs. Chichester
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
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Christopher Strong
Title: Christopher Strong
Character: Carrie Valentine
Released: March 9, 1933
Type: Movie
A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.
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Cavalcade
Title: Cavalcade
Character: Margaret Harris
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
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The Letter
Title: The Letter
Character: Mrs. Joyce
Released: March 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.