Marie Ault

Marie Ault

Born: September 2, 1870
Died: May 9, 1951
in Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
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Marie Ault (2 September 1870 – 9 May 1951) was a British character actress of stage and film.

She was a star in many British films of the silent era, but is most remembered for her role as Daisy Bunting's mother in The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Other notable film work includes the role of Rummy Mitchens in the film of Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (1941).

On stage from 1891, Ault's theatre work included the original production of Love on the Dole in 1935, as well as the 1941 film version.

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Cheer the Brave
Title: Cheer the Brave
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A newly married man soon finds his new wife to be a tyrant. After discovering her previous husband is not really dead, he manages to escape from her clutches.
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Madness of the Heart
Title: Madness of the Heart
Character: Nun
Released: December 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
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The Three Weird Sisters
Title: The Three Weird Sisters
Character: Beattie
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
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Blanche Fury
Title: Blanche Fury
Character: Old Gypsy
Released: February 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Mrs O'Mara
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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Wanted for Murder
Title: Wanted for Murder
Character: Flower Seller
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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They Knew Mr. Knight
Title: They Knew Mr. Knight
Character: Grandma Blake
Released: March 5, 1946
Type: Movie
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Egyptian Lady (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1945
Type: Movie
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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The Man from Morocco
Title: The Man from Morocco
Character: Hotelière
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
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Blithe Spirit
Title: Blithe Spirit
Character: Cook (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.
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It Happened One Sunday
Title: It Happened One Sunday
Character: Madame
Released: July 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
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The Demi-Paradise
Title: The Demi-Paradise
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: November 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.
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The Missing Million
Title: The Missing Million
Character: Mrs. Tweedle
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder...
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Love on the Dole
Title: Love on the Dole
Character: Mrs. Jike
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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Major Barbara
Title: Major Barbara
Character: Rummy Mitchens
Released: May 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
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Freedom Radio
Title: Freedom Radio
Character: Woman Customer
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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Jamaica Inn
Title: Jamaica Inn
Character: Coach Passenger (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
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Lend Me Your Wife
Title: Lend Me Your Wife
Character: Aunt Jane
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Maid Happy
Title: Maid Happy
Character: Miss Woods
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
'Switzerland. Schoolgirl poses as socialite to win diplomat.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Money for Speed
Title: Money for Speed
Character: Ma
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
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Their Night Out
Title: Their Night Out
Character: Cook
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
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Contraband Love
Title: Contraband Love
Character: Sarah Sterling
Released: April 1, 1931
Type: Movie
'Cornwall. Detective poses as escaped convict to catch smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Speckled Band
Title: The Speckled Band
Character: Mrs. Hudson (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1931
Type: Movie
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
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Third Time Lucky
Title: Third Time Lucky
Character: Mrs. Midge
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Sarah Greenwood
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
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The Return of the Rat
Title: The Return of the Rat
Released: May 30, 1929
Type: Movie
The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
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The Alley Cat
Title: The Alley Cat
Character: Ma
Released: March 21, 1929
Type: Movie
"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
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Yellow Stockings
Title: Yellow Stockings
Character: Countess
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. She is eventually reunited with the man who first gave her shelter.' (British Film Institute)
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Victory
Title: Victory
Character: Mother
Released: April 11, 1928
Type: Movie
'France, 1918. Armistice saves girl and pilot from death, but not Canadian agent.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Silver Lining
Title: The Silver Lining
Character: Mrs Hurst
Released: February 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.
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Dawn
Title: Dawn
Character: Mme. Rappard
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
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Hindle Wakes
Title: Hindle Wakes
Character: Mrs. Hawthorn
Released: September 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
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Madame Pompadour
Title: Madame Pompadour
Character: Belotte
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.
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Roses of Picardy
Title: Roses of Picardy
Released: April 1, 1927
Type: Movie
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Title: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Character: Mrs. Bunting the Landlady
Released: February 14, 1927
Type: Movie
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
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The Triumph of the Rat
Title: The Triumph of the Rat
Character: Mere Colline
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...
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The Prude's Fall
Title: The Prude's Fall
Character: Mrs. Masters
Released: November 23, 1925
Type: Movie
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
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The Rat
Title: The Rat
Character: Mere Colline
Released: September 7, 1925
Type: Movie
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.
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The Monkey's Paw
Title: The Monkey's Paw
Character: Mrs. White
Released: February 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A couple dreams that a magic paw returns their dead son.
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Woman to Woman
Title: Woman to Woman
Character: Henrietta
Released: January 2, 1923
Type: Movie
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
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Paddy The Next Best Thing
Title: Paddy The Next Best Thing
Character: Mrs. Adair
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
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Class and No Class
Title: Class and No Class
Character: Liza Ann
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A rich coster's daughter loves a steward who is blamed for killing a blackmailing tramp.