Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer

Born: May 24, 1914
Died: January 27, 1986
in Posen, Germany
Lilli Palmer (born Lilli Marie Peiser; 24 May 1914 – 27 January 1986) was a German actress and writer. She won the Volpi Cup, three Deutscher Filmpreis Awards, and was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award.

Movies for Lilli Palmer...

The Other Side of the Wind
Title: The Other Side of the Wind
Character: Zarah Valeska
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles lifetime.
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Title: Peter the Great
Character: Natalya
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: TV
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
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The Holcroft Covenant
Title: The Holcroft Covenant
Character: Althene Holcroft
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.
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Title: Kronen Könner Kavaliere
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1984
Type: TV
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Eine etwas sonderbare Dame
Title: Eine etwas sonderbare Dame
Released: December 25, 1982
Type: Movie
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Imaginary Friends
Title: Imaginary Friends
Character: Ellen Pitblado
Released: November 13, 1982
Type: Movie
Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.
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Feine Gesellschaft – Beschränkte Haftung
Title: Feine Gesellschaft – Beschränkte Haftung
Character: Hilde
Released: March 12, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Wortwechsel
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: TV
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
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Kinder
Title: Kinder
Character: Mutter
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Weekend
Title: Weekend
Character: Judith Bliss
Released: December 26, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Heut' abend
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 1980
Type: TV
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The Boys from Brazil
Title: The Boys from Brazil
Character: Esther Lieberman
Released: October 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Title: Karussell
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Das ist Ihr Leben
Character: Self
Released: October 8, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Club 2
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Litera-Tour
Character: Self
Released: March 14, 1976
Type: TV
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Treffpunkt Herz
Title: Treffpunkt Herz
Character: Gast
Released: October 4, 1975
Type: Movie
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Lotte in Weimar
Title: Lotte in Weimar
Character: Lotte
Released: May 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement. The book's story tells of young love and suicide. In this East German film, based on a book by Thomas Mann, Lotte (Lilli Palmer) was the woman who served as the model for the heroine in the novel Werther. She comes to Goethe's hometown for a visit, and her experiences there eerily re-create episodes from the book. Goethe comes across as a pompous old bore, and his friends as pandering sycophants, in this very proper communist party-sponsored, anti-heroic movie.
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Title: III nach neun
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Derrick
Character: Martha Balke / Johanna Jensen
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Title: Der große Preis
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: The Zoo Gang
Character: Manouche "The Leopard" Roget
Released: April 5, 1974
Type: TV
Six resistance fighters, known by their animal-based code names, fought during World War II. Their efforts came to a stop when one of their number, "the Wolf", betrayed them to the Gestapo. In their interrogation, one of their number, Claude Roget, the husband of Manouche was shot before her eyes. Thirty years later, Thomas Devon spots the Wolf in his shop. The surviving members of the Zoo Gang drop what they are doing and rendezvous for vengeance. The series follows the adventures of the remaining gang of four resistance fighters reunited 30 years later to scam habitual con artists and criminals in order to take their money and use it for good causes. Despite their ages, they put their skills and experience to use to raise enough money to construct a hospital in the memory of Claude. The gang is aided by the son of Manouche and Claude, an inspector in the French police.
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Title: Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau
Character: Brigitte Schwarz
Released: November 7, 1972
Type: TV
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What the Peeper Saw
Title: What the Peeper Saw
Character: Dr. Viorne
Released: October 14, 1972
Type: Movie
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.
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Title: Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Self
Released: December 25, 1971
Type: TV
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Character: Mrs. Charron
Released: July 21, 1971
Type: Movie
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
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Title: V.I.P. Schaukel
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Hauser's Memory
Title: Hauser's Memory
Character: Anna Hauser
Released: November 24, 1970
Type: Movie
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
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Only the Cool
Title: Only the Cool
Character: Helen
Released: June 3, 1970
Type: Movie
A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage drama. Dominique is the neglected wife of a spy who tracks him down at a Paris antique shop. Finding him with a female spy, the enraged wife shoots both of them. Dominique hides out on a boat while the police investigate the murders, and international spies scramble to recover some missing microfilm. Helen is the spy boss who orders a hit man to go after Dominique.
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The House That Screamed
Title: The House That Screamed
Character: Mrs. Fourneau
Released: December 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.
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The Dance of Death
Title: The Dance of Death
Character: Alice
Released: November 9, 1969
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the play by August Strindberg.
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De Sade
Title: De Sade
Character: Mme. de Montreuil
Released: August 27, 1969
Type: Movie
The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.
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Hard Contract
Title: Hard Contract
Character: Adrianne
Released: April 30, 1969
Type: Movie
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Hilde Laresser
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Nobody Runs Forever
Title: Nobody Runs Forever
Character: Sheila Quentin
Released: August 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
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Oedipus the King
Title: Oedipus the King
Character: Jocasta
Released: June 1, 1968
Type: Movie
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
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Sebastian
Title: Sebastian
Character: Elsa Shahn
Released: January 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Title: The Diary of Anne Frank
Character: Edith Frank
Released: November 26, 1967
Type: Movie
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
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Jack of Diamonds
Title: Jack of Diamonds
Character: Lilli Palmer
Released: November 10, 1967
Type: Movie
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault.
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Father's Trip
Title: Father's Trip
Character: Isabelle Quantin, femme du paysan
Released: September 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdresser, who, busy with her work, hasn't been back to the village for two years. In a few days, it will be Denise's birthday, the youngest of his daughters, and, urged on by his wife, he sets off, determined to bring the prodigal son back to the family celebration. But Denise is now living off her charms.
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Congress of Love
Title: Congress of Love
Character: Fürstin Metternich
Released: March 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, history is in the making. Gathered around the Tsar of Russia, Alexander I, the Kings of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Prussia and Denmark, are persuaded they are building the future Europe whereas they are being manipulated by foxy Chancellor Metternich, he himself under the thumb of cynical Count Talleyrand, the French representative. All those considerations come second though to partying and social life, which is all these aristocrats really want out of this congress.
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An Affair of States
Title: An Affair of States
Character: Olga Nikolaijewna
Released: February 25, 1966
Type: Movie
Two female members of the Soviet military are supposed to kidnap the new American secret weapon at a disarmament conference. The highlight is the duel between Curd Jürgens and Lilli Palmer with vodka in a diplomatic back room. The stopover on the way to freedom is the editorial office of the large Warner publishing house in the USA. The film ends with a wedding in the context of international understanding.
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Title: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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The Thunder of God
Title: The Thunder of God
Character: Marie Brassac
Released: September 8, 1965
Type: Movie
Brassac is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone, Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather."
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Title: The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Character: Dutchy
Released: May 26, 1965
Type: Movie
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
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Operation Crossbow
Title: Operation Crossbow
Character: Frieda
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
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The Circular Triangle
Title: The Circular Triangle
Character: Anna-Maria di Scorza
Released: December 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish finance, and Anna Maria, the group's proxy, are all seeking his succession.
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Title: Zwischenstation
Character: Self
Released: December 15, 1964
Type: TV
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And So to Bed
Title: And So to Bed
Character: Schauspielerin
Released: November 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.
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Torpedo Bay
Title: Torpedo Bay
Character: Lygia da Silva
Released: September 21, 1963
Type: Movie
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral port of Tangiers where they agree a truce.
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Miracle of the White Stallions
Title: Miracle of the White Stallions
Character: Vedena Podhajsky
Released: March 29, 1963
Type: Movie
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform.
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Sex Can Be Difficult
Title: Sex Can Be Difficult
Character: Hilde Brenner (segment "Il serpente")
Released: December 24, 1962
Type: Movie
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Frau Cheneys Ende
Title: Frau Cheneys Ende
Character: Frau May Cheney
Released: September 27, 1962
Type: Movie
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Adorable Julia
Title: Adorable Julia
Character: Julia Lambert
Released: June 8, 1962
Type: Movie
A successful and married, although not quite young, stage actress falls for a young man, who is involved with a young actress who uses him to advance her career and upstage the leading lady.
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Title: The Counterfeit Traitor
Character: Frau Marianne Möllendorf
Released: April 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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Dark Journey
Title: Dark Journey
Character: Wife
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
In this movie based upon Julian Green's novel, we follow Paul's downfall as he is torn between his love for Angele, a local prostitute, as he finds out too late, and Madame Grosgeorge's love for him.
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Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?
Title: Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?
Character: Constanze Calonder
Released: March 29, 1962
Type: Movie
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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The Pleasure of His Company
Title: The Pleasure of His Company
Character: Katharine Dougherty
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jessica, but he pops up again as she prepares to marry a California rancher. Though Pogo's ex-wife remains unimpressed, Jessica quickly falls for her father's charismatic offensive. Soon, however, his reappearance causes complications for the bride-to-be, and she must decide whether or not to go ahead with the wedding.
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Midnight Meeting
Title: Midnight Meeting
Character: Eva Khrolic / Anne Leuven
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?
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Conspiracy of Hearts
Title: Conspiracy of Hearts
Character: Mother Katharine
Released: April 7, 1960
Type: Movie
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.
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Frau Warrens Gewerbe
Title: Frau Warrens Gewerbe
Character: Mrs. Kitty Warren
Released: January 12, 1960
Type: Movie
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But Not for Me
Title: But Not for Me
Character: Kathryn Ward
Released: August 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn, plots to end his new relationship.
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Title: Stars in der Manege
Character: Self
Released: April 11, 1959
Type: TV
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Life Together
Title: Life Together
Character: Odette de Starenberg
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
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Girls in Uniform
Title: Girls in Uniform
Character: Fräulein Elisabeth von Bernburg
Released: July 7, 1958
Type: Movie
In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
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The Lovers of Montparnasse
Title: The Lovers of Montparnasse
Character: Béatrice Hastings
Released: April 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
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Eine Frau, die weiß was sie will
Title: Eine Frau, die weiß was sie will
Character: Julia Klöhn
Released: February 25, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Glass Tower
Title: The Glass Tower
Character: Katja Fleming
Released: October 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Katja Fleming has given up her job as an actress and married the business man Robert Fleming. But the cold that surrounds her in her modern, luxurious high-rise makes her lonely. Then she meets the author John Lawrence, who wants to convince her to perform in his new play.
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The Night of the Storm
Title: The Night of the Storm
Character: Marianne Eichler
Released: March 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified.
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Between Time and Eternity
Title: Between Time and Eternity
Character: Nina Bohlen
Released: November 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Between Time and Eternity
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Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Title: Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Character: Anna Anderson
Released: September 26, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Singer
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Devil in Silk
Title: Devil in Silk
Character: Melanie
Released: January 5, 1956
Type: Movie
After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found dead.
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Title: Lilli Palmer Theatre
Character: Self - Hostess
Released: September 25, 1955
Type: TV
A half-hour anthology series.
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Title: Was bin ich?
Character: self
Released: January 2, 1955
Type: TV
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Fireworks
Title: Fireworks
Character: Iduna
Released: September 15, 1954
Type: Movie
The quiet life of an extended family is shaken up when a circus comes into town.
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Main Street to Broadway
Title: Main Street to Broadway
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 1953
Type: Movie
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
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Title: Omnibus
Released: November 9, 1952
Type: TV
Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
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The Four Poster
Title: The Four Poster
Character: Abby Edwards
Released: October 8, 1952
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century New York, the marriage of John and Abby Edwards unfolds over the years.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Stacy Lawrence
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Katherine
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Pictura
Title: Pictura
Character: Narrator: Toulouse-Lautrec episode (voice)
Released: June 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.
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The Long Dark Hall
Title: The Long Dark Hall
Character: Mary Groome
Released: February 6, 1951
Type: Movie
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Nancy
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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The Twentieth Century
Title: The Twentieth Century
Character: Mildred Plotka / Lily Garland
Released: November 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
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Wicked City
Title: Wicked City
Character: Tania - la gitane
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.
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Title: Suspense
Character: Julia
Released: January 6, 1949
Type: TV
Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City. It was sponsored by the Auto-Lite corporation, and each episode was introduced by host Rex Marshall, who promoted Auto-Lite spark plugs, car batteries, headlights, and other car parts. Some of the early scripts were adapted from Suspense radio scripts, while others were original for television. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed. Many notable actors appeared on the program, including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Franchot Tone, Robert Emhardt, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and many more. The program was a live television series, but most episodes were recorded on kinescope. However, only about 90 of the 260 episodes survive today.
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No Minor Vices
Title: No Minor Vices
Character: April Ashwell
Released: November 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Character: Molly Collicutt
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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My Girl Tisa
Title: My Girl Tisa
Character: Tisa Kepes
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
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Body and Soul
Title: Body and Soul
Character: Peg Born
Released: November 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
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Cloak and Dagger
Title: Cloak and Dagger
Character: Gina
Released: September 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
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Beware of Pity
Title: Beware of Pity
Character: Baroness Edith de Kekesfalva
Released: July 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
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The Rake's Progress
Title: The Rake's Progress
Character: Rikki Krausner
Released: December 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
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English Without Tears
Title: English Without Tears
Character: Brigid Knudsen
Released: July 28, 1944
Type: Movie
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
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The Gentle Sex
Title: The Gentle Sex
Character: Erna Debruski
Released: May 23, 1943
Type: Movie
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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Thunder Rock
Title: Thunder Rock
Character: Melanie Kurtz
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
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The Door with Seven Locks
Title: The Door with Seven Locks
Character: June Lansdowne
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
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Blind Folly
Title: Blind Folly
Character: Valerie
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
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A Girl Must Live
Title: A Girl Must Live
Character: Clytie Devine
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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Crackerjack
Title: Crackerjack
Character: Baroness Von Haltz
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
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Good Morning, Boys!
Title: Good Morning, Boys!
Character: Yvette
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 Great Barrier
Title: The Great Barrier
Character: Lou
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: Susan
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets and falls in love with Susan (Palmer), an attractive young woman who is unaware of his fame.
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Secret Agent
Title: Secret Agent
Character: Lilli
Released: May 31, 1936
Type: Movie
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
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Crime Unlimited
Title: Crime Unlimited
Character: Natacha
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.