Martita Hunt

Martita Hunt

Born: January 30, 1900
Died: June 13, 1969
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 1900 – 13 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations.

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The Best House in London
Title: The Best House in London
Character: Headmistress
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Title: Bunny Lake Is Missing
Character: Ada Ford
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Title: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Character: Grand Duchess Elise Lupavinova
Released: June 11, 1964
Type: Movie
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
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Becket
Title: Becket
Character: Empress Matilda
Released: March 11, 1964
Type: Movie
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Title: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Character: Anna Richter
Released: August 7, 1962
Type: Movie
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
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Mr. Topaze
Title: Mr. Topaze
Character: Baroness
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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Title: Route 66
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: TV
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Character: Madama Kuprin
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Character: Madame Kuprin
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Celia Sommerville
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: TV
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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Song Without End
Title: Song Without End
Character: Grand Duchess
Released: August 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
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The Brides of Dracula
Title: The Brides of Dracula
Character: Baroness Meinster
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
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Bottoms Up!
Title: Bottoms Up!
Character: Lady Gore-Willoughby
Released: March 25, 1960
Type: Movie
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
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Venetian Honeymoon
Title: Venetian Honeymoon
Character: Lisa Bradwell
Released: February 27, 1959
Type: Movie
There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall madly in love with him. Isabella has no idea that her dream man is really the impostor Gérard, who looks remarkably like the prince and was hounded by the sleazy crook Alfredo on Isabella to steal their precious jewelry.
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Me and the Colonel
Title: Me and the Colonel
Character: Mother Superior
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews. They are soon joined by Prokoszny's bride-to-be, Suzanne, who takes an immediate liking to the engaging Jacobowsky. This furthers the hostility between Jacobowsky and Prokoszny, but they must put their differences aside to evade the Nazis trailing them.
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Bonjour Tristesse
Title: Bonjour Tristesse
Character: Philippe's Mother
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
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Dangerous Exile
Title: Dangerous Exile
Character: Lady Lydia Fell
Released: December 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
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The Spies
Title: The Spies
Character: Connie Harper
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: Movie
A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
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The Admirable Crichton
Title: The Admirable Crichton
Character: Lady Brocklehurst
Released: June 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
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Three Men in a Boat
Title: Three Men in a Boat
Character: Mrs. Willis
Released: December 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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Anastasia
Title: Anastasia
Character: Baroness Elena von Livenbaum
Released: December 13, 1956
Type: Movie
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.
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The March Hare
Title: The March Hare
Character: Lady Anne
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
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King's Rhapsody
Title: King's Rhapsody
Character: Queen Mother
Released: June 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic film.
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Melba
Title: Melba
Character: Mme. Marchesi
Released: August 7, 1953
Type: Movie
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
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Folly to Be Wise
Title: Folly to Be Wise
Character: Lady Dodd
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
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It Started in Paradise
Title: It Started in Paradise
Character: Mme. Alice
Released: October 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
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Meet Me Tonight
Title: Meet Me Tonight
Character: Mabel Grace
Released: September 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
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Treasure Hunt
Title: Treasure Hunt
Character: Aunt Anna Rose
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Title: The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Character: Queen Eleanor
Released: May 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
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The Fan
Title: The Fan
Character: Duchess of Berwick
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Mrs. Porter
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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So Evil My Love
Title: So Evil My Love
Character: Mrs. Courtney (SR)
Released: August 2, 1948
Type: Movie
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
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My Sister and I
Title: My Sister and I
Character: Mrs. Camelot
Released: August 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A family is in need of a new house help so they employ a mysterious young woman. They soon realise all is not as it seems as the past comes back to haunt the woman of the house.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Princess Betty Tversky
Released: January 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Miss Havisham
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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The Wicked Lady
Title: The Wicked Lady
Character: Cousin Agatha
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
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Welcome, Mr Washington
Title: Welcome, Mr Washington
Character: Miss Finch
Released: May 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort. Both eventually fall for American servicemen.
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The Man in Grey
Title: The Man in Grey
Character: Miss Patchett
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
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Sabotage at Sea
Title: Sabotage at Sea
Character: Daphne Faber
Released: September 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
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The Lady from Lisbon
Title: The Lady from Lisbon
Character: Susan Wellington-Smythe
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-loving South American wanna-be spy Tamara (Jane Carr) journeys to Lisbon to snoop for the Germans in return for the iconic painting. But bumbling Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and multiple copies of the artwork soon confound her attempts at espionage.
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They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Character: Miss Bland
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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The Seventh Survivor
Title: The Seventh Survivor
Character: Mrs. Lindley
Released: January 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
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East of Piccadilly
Title: East of Piccadilly
Character: Ma
Released: June 23, 1941
Type: Movie
A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: Mme. Mirelle
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Freedom Radio
Title: Freedom Radio
Character: Frau Lehmann the Concierge
Released: February 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
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Miss Knowall
Title: Miss Knowall
Character: Miss Hardcastle
Released: December 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.
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Miss Grant Goes to the Door
Title: Miss Grant Goes to the Door
Character: Edith
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.
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The Middle Watch
Title: The Middle Watch
Character: Lady Elizabeth Hewett
Released: May 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed, but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.
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At the Villa Rose
Title: At the Villa Rose
Character: Helen Vaquier
Released: March 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those gems, so they consult a phony spiritualist. Then they decide to dispose of the mystic by framing her for the murder.
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A Girl Must Live
Title: A Girl Must Live
Character: Mme. Dupont, assistant
Released: September 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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Old Mother Riley Joins Up
Title: Old Mother Riley Joins Up
Character: Commandant
Released: September 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents.
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Young Man's Fancy
Title: Young Man's Fancy
Character: Duchess of Beaumont
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Title: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character: British Tourist on Bicycle (uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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Trouble Brewing
Title: Trouble Brewing
Character: Mme Berdi
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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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Title: The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Character: Mme. Appel
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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Second Best Bed
Title: Second Best Bed
Character: Mrs. Mather
Released: July 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
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Strange Boarders
Title: Strange Boarders
Character: Miss Pitter
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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Paradise for Two
Title: Paradise for Two
Character: Mme. Bernard
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
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Good Morning, Boys!
Title: Good Morning, Boys!
Character: Lady Bogshott
Released: May 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.
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The Mill on the Floss
Title: The Mill on the Floss
Character: Mrs. Glegg
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: The Professor's Daughter (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
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Farewell Again
Title: Farewell Again
Character: Adela Swayle
Released: January 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
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Tudor Rose
Title: Tudor Rose
Character: Jane's Mother
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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The Beloved Vagabond
Title: The Beloved Vagabond
Character: Lady with lorgnettes
Released: August 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
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Pot Luck
Title: Pot Luck
Released: April 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been stolen by a gang of thieves specialising in taking art treasures. His investigation takes him to the home of the innocent Mr Pye (Robertson Hare), whose house has been used by the crooks to hide their proceeds.
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When Knights Were Bold
Title: When Knights Were Bold
Character: Aunt Esther
Released: February 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues...
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King of the Damned
Title: King of the Damned
Character: Woman on Plane
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
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First a Girl
Title: First a Girl
Character: Madame Seraphina
Released: November 7, 1935
Type: Movie
First a Girl is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews. First a Girl was adapted from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel.
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Man of the Moment
Title: Man of the Moment
Character: Lady at Roulette Table
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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The Case of Gabriel Perry
Title: The Case of Gabriel Perry
Character: Mrs. Read
Released: April 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Agnes Lightfoot
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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I Was A Spy
Title: I Was A Spy
Character: Aunt Lucille
Released: September 4, 1933
Type: Movie
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
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Love on Wheels
Title: Love on Wheels
Character: Piano Demonstrator
Released: July 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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Service for Ladies
Title: Service for Ladies
Character: Aline - Countess Ricardi's Maid
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.