Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom

Born: February 15, 1931
in Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK
Claire Bloom CBE (born Patricia Claire Blume; 15 February 1931) is an English actress.

Movies for Claire Bloom...

Chaplin vs the FBI
Title: Chaplin vs the FBI
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2019
Type: Movie
How FBI followed Charles Chaplin for 50 years. Hoover was convinced that Chaplin is a communist or communist supporter.
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Title: Summer of Rockets
Character: Aunt Mary
Released: May 22, 2019
Type: TV
Samuel, a Russian-born Jewish inventor who specialises in the development of hearing aids, is tasked with a secret mission by MI5 to use his technological expertise to contribute to western Cold War efforts. Following the tensions of the space race and the first hydrogen bomb test, Samuel's efforts factor in to the emergence of the modern world.
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Miss Dalí
Title: Miss Dalí
Character: Maggie
Released: April 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Anna Maria Dalí is four years younger than her brother Salvador and they love each other. Both enjoy the great progressive atmosphere of republican Spain, fraternizing with great creators, García Lorca, Buñuel.
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Max Rose
Title: Max Rose
Character: Eva Rose
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: Movie
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.
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Chaplin - The Legend of the Century
Title: Chaplin - The Legend of the Century
Released: May 13, 2014
Type: Movie
A new TV documentary on Chaplin that celebrates a 100 years of the iconic Tramp, presented by Laurent Delahousse.
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Day of the Siege
Title: Day of the Siege
Character: Rosa Cristofori
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Storyline: In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.
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And While We Were Here
Title: And While We Were Here
Character: Grandma Eves
Released: April 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Trapped in a loveless marriage, a troubled writer experiences a sexual awakening when she meets a carefee American in Italy.
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The King's Speech
Title: The King's Speech
Character: Queen Mary
Released: November 26, 2010
Type: Movie
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.
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Fiona's Story
Title: Fiona's Story
Character: Helen
Released: August 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.
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House of Life: A Jewish Cemetary in Prague
Title: House of Life: A Jewish Cemetary in Prague
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A deep dive documentary into the history of the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague.
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Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom
Title: Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2006
Type: Movie
Internationally acclaimed American soprano Renee Fleming and British actress Claire Bloom join with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in a magnificent Christmas celebration featuring some of the season's most beloved songs. Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a holiday tradition the entire family will enjoy.
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Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: Rani
Released: April 10, 2006
Type: TV
One biblical figure is revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. His name is Moses, the man who rose in power to defend a people, to free them, and to live in history like no other... The Ten Commandments dramatizes the biblical story of Moses.
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Kalamazoo?
Title: Kalamazoo?
Character: Eleanor
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
The story of three girlfriends who go back to Kalamazoo, Michigan for their 10 year high school reunion. There, they discover that a time capsule placed on their graduation night containing predictions would be opened. Horrified at the thought of having their unfulfilled goals made public, the three women decide to find the time capsule and destroy it before it is opened.
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The Chatterley Affair
Title: The Chatterley Affair
Character: Older Helena
Released: March 20, 2006
Type: Movie
The trial, under The Obscene Publications Act, of the publishers of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'in 1960 was a sensation that consumed the nation. The movie follows two fictional jurors, Helena and Keith, who become passionate lovers during the course of the trial and whose affair mirrors the themes of the novel.
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2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom
Title: 2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom
Character: Herself
Released: December 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Internationally acclaimed American soprano Renee Fleming and British actress Claire Bloom join with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in a magnificent Christmas celebration featuring some of the season's most beloved songs. Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a holiday tradition the entire family will enjoy.
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Title: Jericho
Character: Marie Hewitt
Released: October 16, 2005
Type: TV
Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, who is loved by the public but who is embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Aunt Ada
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
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Daniel and the Superdogs
Title: Daniel and the Superdogs
Character: Claire Martin
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Daniel it's been especially hard; when his father dives into work in an attempt to keep his grief at bay, Daniel starts causing mischief around the neighborhood with his best friends William and Colin. When the kids catch wind of a canine.
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Title: New Tricks
Character: Helen Brownlow
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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Imagining Argentina
Title: Imagining Argentina
Character: Sara Sternberg
Released: September 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
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Chaplin Today: 'Limelight'
Title: Chaplin Today: 'Limelight'
Character: Self
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A short documentary about the making of Chaplin's "Limelight."
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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Title: Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, written and directed by renowned film critic Richard Schickel.
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The Book of Eve
Title: The Book of Eve
Character: Eva Smallwood
Released: September 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around a reclusive woman's heart.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Marion Whitney
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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On Cukor
Title: On Cukor
Character: Self
Released: November 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director’s unique accomplishments and to trace the arc of his career.
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Yesterday's Children
Title: Yesterday's Children
Character: Maggie
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: Movie
After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious, Jenny goes to Ireland to investigate her past life.
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Tales from the Madhouse
Title: Tales from the Madhouse
Character: Pilate's Wife
Released: April 16, 2000
Type: Movie
Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. The eight are linked by one unifying and crucial event in their lives: each of them has had an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth in some way — an experience that has left an indelible mark.
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Love and Murder
Title: Love and Murder
Character: Nina Love
Released: April 16, 2000
Type: Movie
While keeping her family together in the wake of her husband's murder, Joanne gets drawn into another murder investigation when a friend, artist Sally, comes back into town for an exhibition.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Emma Sachs
Released: December 12, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone else? Det. Tony Rossini investigates, along with Larry "Cash" Carter, a theatre director connected to Mrs. Sachs and her family.
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Shakespeare's Women and Claire Bloom
Title: Shakespeare's Women and Claire Bloom
Character: self
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Claire Bloom has performed leading and important supporting roles in numerous plays by William Shakespeare, starting while she was still in her teens. In this documentary, she discusses her experiences and performs monologues and soliloquies from 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'The Merchant of Venice,' 'As You Like It,' 'Richard III,' 'Hamlet,' and 'King Henry the Eighth,' among others.
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Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
Title: Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 1998
Type: Movie
A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to glory.
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Wrestling with Alligators
Title: Wrestling with Alligators
Character: Lulu Fraker
Released: January 18, 1998
Type: Movie
All that Maddy Hawkins has ever wanted was a family she could call her own. Even in 1959, the simplest things are difficult to find...Maddy, a street-wise teenage runaway, believes she has created this family with the women who live with her in an East Coast woman-only rooming house: Lulu, an eccentric silent-screen star; Claire, a beautiful, widowed French war bride; and Mary, a young artist.But as Maddy watches her newfound family fall apart, she begins to realize that some things in life are worth fighting for, and that the bonds of true friendship are the strongest bonds of all.
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What the Deaf Man Heard
Title: What the Deaf Man Heard
Character: Mrs. Tynan
Released: November 23, 1997
Type: Movie
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced that he is deaf and mute. Deciding that silence offers some power and protection, the boy decides to remain mute and just listens to all that is being said around him by people who think that he cannot hear.
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Title: Trial & Retribution
Released: October 19, 1997
Type: TV
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Matilda Stowe
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Daylight
Title: Daylight
Character: Eleanor Trilling
Released: December 6, 1996
Type: Movie
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.
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Mighty Aphrodite
Title: Mighty Aphrodite
Character: Amanda's Mother
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: Movie
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Title: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Character: Liz Stringer
Released: June 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Gorgeous Antonia is on a dangerous downward spiral caused by an addiction to heroin when she meets Mike, a tough drifter who helps her score more smack. Although they're not attracted to each other initially, Antonia and Mike eventually give in to their growing feelings for each other. But this leads to a dilemma: How does Mike help the woman he now loves kick her addiction?
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A Village Affair
Title: A Village Affair
Character: Cecily Jordon
Released: April 17, 1995
Type: Movie
An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.
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Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Title: Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Character: Narrator
Released: May 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
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Remember
Title: Remember
Character: Anne Deveraux Rawlings
Released: October 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her fiancé.
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It's Nothing Personal
Title: It's Nothing Personal
Character: Evelyn Whitloff
Released: February 1, 1993
Type: Movie
An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after the suspected killer of her brother in a robbery.
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Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Title: Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Character: Marina Gregg
Released: December 27, 1992
Type: Movie
A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.
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Title: The Camomile Lawn
Character: Sophy (older)
Released: March 5, 1992
Type: TV
The Camomile Lawn is British adaptation of the Mary Wesley's classic novel that aired on Channel 4. As storm clouds gather over Europe in 1939, five cousins meet to pay tribute to a world that will never be the same again.
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Title: Love at First Sight
Character: Maria Cruz
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: TV
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The Princess and the Goblin
Title: The Princess and the Goblin
Character: Great Great Grandmother Irene
Released: June 3, 1991
Type: Movie
The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic power to fight off goblins and save the kingdom.
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Title: Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 1990
Type: Movie
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Title: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Character: Miriam Rosenthal
Released: October 13, 1989
Type: Movie
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
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The Lady and the Highwayman
Title: The Lady and the Highwayman
Character: Lady Emma Darlington
Released: December 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But during one of his robberies, he falls in love with an aristocratic lady, Emma Samms ("Star Quest", "Delirious"). Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause. This swash-buckling romantic adventure will have you on the edge of your seat with every swing of Hugh's savage sword.
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Title: Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Character: Lady Delamere
Released: May 15, 1988
Type: Movie
The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Title: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Character: Alice
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.
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Title: Intimate Contact
Character: Ruth Gregory
Released: October 5, 1987
Type: TV
A self-satisfied, upper-middle-class husband discovers that his marital infidelities have caused him to contract AIDS.
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Title: Queenie
Character: Vicky Kelley
Released: May 10, 1987
Type: TV
A half-caste beauty emigrates from India to Great Britain, pursues fame and fortune at the cost of personal happiness, and becomes a Hollywood movie star while suppressing the truth of her heritage.
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Queenie
Title: Queenie
Character: Vicky Kelley
Released: May 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Queenie was an ABC miniseries, adapted from the eponymous novel by Michael Korda, which is based loosely on the life of his aunt, actress Merle Oberon. A half-caste beauty emigrates from India to Great Britain, pursues fame and fortune at the cost of personal happiness, and becomes a Hollywood movie star while suppressing the truth of her heritage.
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Title: Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
Character: Czarina Alexandra
Released: December 7, 1986
Type: TV
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna is a 1986 TV movie, starring Amy Irving, Rex Harrison, Olivia de Havilland, Omar Sharif, and Jan Niklas. The film was loosely based on the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the book The Riddle of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth. It was Christian Bale's first film and Rex Harrison's last film. It was originally broadcast in two parts.
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Title: Hold the Dream
Character: Edwina, Lady Dunvale
Released: October 27, 1986
Type: TV
The follow-up to A Woman of Substance with Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula, as well as her respected advisor Henry Rossiter and Blackie O'Neill.
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Title: Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Character: Jocasta
Released: September 16, 1986
Type: Movie
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.
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Liberty
Title: Liberty
Character: Madame Bartholdi
Released: June 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
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Ann and Debbie
Title: Ann and Debbie
Character: Debbie
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Two friends, Ann and Debbie, meet for drinks to discuss marriage difficulties.
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Title: Time for Murder
Character: Lady Penwarden
Released: November 9, 1985
Type: TV
Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no ordinary tales of mystery and suspense. Each has its own twist, ranging from the darkly humorous to the truly macabre.
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Promises to Keep
Title: Promises to Keep
Character: Sally
Released: October 15, 1985
Type: Movie
An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret.
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Florence Nightingale
Title: Florence Nightingale
Character: Fanny Nightingale
Released: July 5, 1985
Type: Movie
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.
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Déjà Vu
Title: Déjà Vu
Character: Eleanor Harvey
Released: May 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated believes that his present wife possesses the soul of his wife in his previous wife, a ballerina.
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Time and the Conways
Title: Time and the Conways
Character: Mrs Conway
Released: April 7, 1985
Type: Movie
1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence. Then Time begins to conjure with them and offers a dark glimpse of what the future could really bring.
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Shadowlands
Title: Shadowlands
Character: Joy Gresham
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
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Title: Miss Marple
Character: Marina Gregg
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: TV
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade.
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The Life and Death of King John
Title: The Life and Death of King John
Character: Constance
Released: November 24, 1984
Type: Movie
The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but there are others who seek disputre his authority.
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Title: Ellis Island
Character: Rebecca Weiler
Released: November 11, 1984
Type: TV
Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.
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The Ghost Writer
Title: The Ghost Writer
Character: Hope Lonoff
Released: November 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Nathan Zuckerman, a budding 23 year old writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovers the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff. Also staying is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past.
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Separate Tables
Title: Separate Tables
Character: Miss Cooper
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a meek woman harbors a secret love for a man accused of fraud and sex offenses, forcing her to take a stand for the first time in her life.
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Cymbeline
Title: Cymbeline
Character: Queen
Released: December 20, 1982
Type: Movie
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
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Title: Brideshead Revisited
Character: Teresa Flyte, Lady Marchmain
Released: October 12, 1981
Type: TV
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
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Clash of the Titans
Title: Clash of the Titans
Character: Hera
Released: June 12, 1981
Type: Movie
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
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Beauty and the Beast
Title: Beauty and the Beast
Character: Beauty (voice)
Released: March 31, 1981
Type: Movie
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Gertrude
Released: May 25, 1980
Type: Movie
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
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Henry VIII
Title: Henry VIII
Character: Katharine of Aragon
Released: February 25, 1979
Type: Movie
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.
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Title: Backstairs at the White House
Character: Edith Galt Wilson
Released: January 29, 1979
Type: TV
Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Islands in the Stream
Title: Islands in the Stream
Character: Audrey
Released: March 9, 1977
Type: Movie
An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
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Title: Wessex Tales
Released: November 7, 1973
Type: TV
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories written by novelist Thomas Hardy.
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The Going Up of David Lev
Title: The Going Up of David Lev
Character: Hannah
Released: April 25, 1973
Type: Movie
A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to find out more about his father's death. He skips school and, with the help of a friendly cab driver, heads to Jerusalem to find the men who fought with his father's unit and learn the exact circumstances. During the drive from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the cabbie provides a history of the establishment of the Jewish state
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A Doll's House
Title: A Doll's House
Character: Nora Helmer
Released: April 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
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Red Sky at Morning
Title: Red Sky at Morning
Character: Ann Arnold
Released: May 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New Mexico. Joshua has a difficult time fitting in, finding himself a minority in a predominantly Latino community, and his mother doesn't fare much better, treating her loneliness with increasing quantities of alcohol. At length, Joshua makes some friends and begins to adjust, but bad news from overseas threatens to spoil what he's accomplished.
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A Severed Head
Title: A Severed Head
Character: Honor Klein
Released: January 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, a mistress called Georgie, whom his womanizing brother also desires. All the while, Palmer's sister Honor seems to know everyone's business.
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3 Into 2 Won't Go
Title: 3 Into 2 Won't Go
Character: Frances Howard
Released: July 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.
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The Illustrated Man
Title: The Illustrated Man
Character: Felicia
Released: March 26, 1969
Type: Movie
A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the illustrated man meets a fellow tramp on the road a strange voyage begins.
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Tattooed Steiger
Title: Tattooed Steiger
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look on the making of the movie "The Illustrated Man" featuring scenes from the movie and the design and application process of tattooing lead actor Rod Steiger by make-up artists.
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Charly
Title: Charly
Character: Alice Kinian
Released: September 23, 1968
Type: Movie
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Soldier in Love
Title: Soldier in Love
Character: Queen Anne
Released: April 26, 1967
Type: Movie
The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Title: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Character: Nan Perry
Released: December 16, 1965
Type: Movie
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
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The Outrage
Title: The Outrage
Character: Wife
Released: October 7, 1964
Type: Movie
At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the murder of a man and the rape of his wife. In their recounting, the three explore the conflicting testimonies of the parties involved in the crimes. Disconcerting new questions arise with each different version of the event.
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High Infidelity
Title: High Infidelity
Character: Laura
Released: January 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
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The Teacher from Vigevano
Title: The Teacher from Vigevano
Character: Ada
Released: December 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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The Haunting
Title: The Haunting
Character: Theodora
Released: August 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
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80,000 Suspects
Title: 80,000 Suspects
Character: Julie Monks
Released: August 15, 1963
Type: Movie
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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The Chapman Report
Title: The Chapman Report
Character: Naomi Shields
Released: October 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Title: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Character: Dorothea Grimm
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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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Catherine
Released: May 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Anna Karenina
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.
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Title: Checkmate
Character: Gina Burton
Released: September 17, 1960
Type: TV
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.
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Brainwashed
Title: Brainwashed
Character: Irene Andreny
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Werner von Basil (a Austrian intellectual) was captured by the Nazi in 1938. The want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
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Look Back in Anger
Title: Look Back in Anger
Character: Helena Charles
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: Movie
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
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The Buccaneer
Title: The Buccaneer
Character: Bonnie Brown
Released: December 11, 1958
Type: Movie
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Title: The Brothers Karamazov
Character: Katya
Released: February 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
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Title: Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: TV
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Nominee
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
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Alexander the Great
Title: Alexander the Great
Character: Barsine
Released: March 28, 1956
Type: Movie
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.
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Richard III
Title: Richard III
Character: The Lady Anne
Released: December 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
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The Man Between
Title: The Man Between
Character: Suzanne Mallison
Released: November 18, 1953
Type: Movie
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
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Innocents in Paris
Title: Innocents in Paris
Character: Susan Robbins
Released: July 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
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The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Title: The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Character: The Shepherdess (voice)
Released: May 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Limelight
Title: Limelight
Character: Terry, a Dancer
Released: October 23, 1952
Type: Movie
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Anne
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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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Mrs. Tynan
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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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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The Blind Goddess
Title: The Blind Goddess
Character: Mary Dearing
Released: September 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.