Helen Haye

Helen Haye

Born: August 27, 1874
Died: September 1, 1957
in Assam Province, British India

Movies for Helen Haye...

The Gypsy and the Gentleman
Title: The Gypsy and the Gentleman
Character: Lady Caroline Ayrton
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
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Action of the Tiger
Title: Action of the Tiger
Character: Countess Valona
Released: August 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
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My Teenage Daughter
Title: My Teenage Daughter
Character: Aunt Louisa Black
Released: June 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
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Lilacs in the Spring
Title: Lilacs in the Spring
Character: Lady Drayton
Released: December 21, 1954
Type: Movie
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
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Hobson's Choice
Title: Hobson's Choice
Character: Mrs. Hepworth
Released: April 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
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Front Page Story
Title: Front Page Story
Character: Susan's Mother
Released: March 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....
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Anastasia
Title: Anastasia
Character: The Dowager Empress of Russia
Released: July 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Set 16 years after the execution of the Tsar and his family by the Bolsheviks. Exiles Prince Bounine and his friends come up with a scheme to con money by claiming an imposter to be Princess Anastasia who escaped the shootings. They find a poor woman who is close to suicide and both looks the part and speaks Russian. All they need to do is train her for her role, enough to convince other members of the ex-Royal household and family also in exile.
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Conspirator
Title: Conspirator
Character: Lady Witheringham
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
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Third Time Lucky
Title: Third Time Lucky
Character: Old Lady
Released: January 6, 1949
Type: Movie
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Countess Vronsky
Released: January 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Title: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Character: Lady Sefton
Released: December 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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Mine Own Executioner
Title: Mine Own Executioner
Character: Lady Maresfield
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
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A Place of One's Own
Title: A Place of One's Own
Character: Florence Manning-Tutthorn
Released: March 20, 1945
Type: Movie
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
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Madonna of the Seven Moons
Title: Madonna of the Seven Moons
Character: Mother Superior
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
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Fanny by Gaslight
Title: Fanny by Gaslight
Character: Mrs. Somerford
Released: May 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
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Dear Octopus
Title: Dear Octopus
Character: Dora Randolph
Released: September 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
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The Man in Grey
Title: The Man in Grey
Character: Lady Rohan
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
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Kipps
Title: Kipps
Character: Mrs. Walshingham
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
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The Case of the Frightened Lady
Title: The Case of the Frightened Lady
Character: Lady Lebanon
Released: September 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Miss Ada Broadbent
Released: December 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Popular comedian Claude Dampier is seen at his best here, as he disrupts the sedate peace of Victorian England in his attempt to help a village blacksmith win both a bicycle race and the girl. Can the blacksmith's new bicycle design triumph over his rival's trusty penny farthing?
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A Girl Must Live
Title: A Girl Must Live
Character: Aunt Primrose
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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The Spy in Black
Title: The Spy in Black
Character: Mrs. Sedley
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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St. Martin's Lane
Title: St. Martin's Lane
Character: Selina
Released: October 18, 1938
Type: Movie
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
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The Girl in the Taxi
Title: The Girl in the Taxi
Character: Delphine
Released: September 2, 1937
Type: Movie
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
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Cotton Queen
Title: Cotton Queen
Character: Margaret Owen
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
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Wings of the Morning
Title: Wings of the Morning
Character: Aunt Jenepher
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Louisa Jordan
Released: June 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
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Drake of England
Title: Drake of England
Character: Lady Lennox
Released: May 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Queen Mother Juliana
Released: February 7, 1935
Type: Movie
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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This Week of Grace
Title: This Week of Grace
Character: Lady Warmington
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
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It's a Boy
Title: It's a Boy
Character: Mrs. Bogle
Released: June 6, 1933
Type: Movie
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
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Her First Affaire
Title: Her First Affaire
Character: Lady Brogden
Released: December 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's wife to show the girl how foolish she's been.
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Monte Carlo Madness
Title: Monte Carlo Madness
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, but falls in love with a Queen.
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Congress Dances
Title: Congress Dances
Character: Princess
Released: December 3, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
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The Officers' Mess
Title: The Officers' Mess
Character: Mrs. Harbottle
Released: May 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
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Brown Sugar
Title: Brown Sugar
Character: Lady Knightsbridge
Released: April 21, 1931
Type: Movie
The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.
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The Skin Game
Title: The Skin Game
Character: Mrs. Hillcrist
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
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Beyond the Cities
Title: Beyond the Cities
Character: Amy Hayes
Released: November 18, 1930
Type: Movie
"A wealthy young man, through losing the bulk of his fortune, goes to Canada, where he encounters and loves the daughter of the scoundrel lawyer who has robbed him." (Synopsis from The Bioscope, November 1930.)
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The Nipper
Title: The Nipper
Character: Lady Sevenoaks
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
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Knowing Men
Title: Knowing Men
Character: Korah's Aunt (Marquise de Jaurmais)
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
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Atlantic
Title: Atlantic
Character: Clara Tate-Hughes
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
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The Skin Game
Title: The Skin Game
Character: Mrs. Hillcrist
Released: January 7, 1921
Type: Movie
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village. The original silent version of a film Hitchcock later adapted with sound.
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Bleak House
Title: Bleak House
Character: Miss Barbay
Released: January 15, 1920
Type: Movie
'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
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Masks and Faces
Title: Masks and Faces
Character: Dame Best
Released: March 1, 1917
Type: Movie
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.