Megs Jenkins

Megs Jenkins

Born: April 21, 1917
Died: October 5, 1998
in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
An engineer's daughter, she had first planned on becoming a ballerina, using her original Christian name Muguette, but abandoned those plans by the age of 17 when she realized that her physique was more in keeping with her other first name, Megs. She trained in Liverpool at the School of Dancing and Dramatic Art and then joined the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1933 before moving to London to appear at the Player's Theatre four years later.

During the 1950's, Megs was busy acting on stage and had considerable critical success in two plays by Emlyn Williams, 'Light of Heart' (1940) and 'The Wind of Heaven' (1945). Against character, she also played the vicious, unstable Alma Winemiller in 'Summer and Smoke' (1951) by Tennessee Williams. In 1956, she was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the stoic wife of a longshoreman harbouring incestuous feelings for his niece in 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller. The previous year, she had made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's 'A Day by the Sea' as a supportive governess to an alcoholic physician.

Movies for Megs Jenkins...

A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
Title: A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
Character: Mrs Braithwaite
Released: December 27, 1980
Type: Movie
Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), hoping to invite her to the Scarecrow Ball, but before he can find her he runs into his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor), herself heading for a spell in panto. Then, before he gets much further, our multi-headed hero gets sidetracked again when he runs into angry Scots scarecrow Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) and his anti-Christmas brigade. Will Worzel ever get to enjoy the season with his beloved?
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Title: Worzel Gummidge
Character: Mrs. Braithwaite
Released: February 25, 1979
Type: TV
Worzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. Starting in 1979, the programme starred Jon Pertwee in the title role and ran for four series in the UK until 1981. Channel 4 reprised the show in 1987 as Worzel Gummidge Down Under, which was set in New Zealand.
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The Daedalus Equations
Title: The Daedalus Equations
Character: Eileen Gray
Released: October 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Hans Daedalus has defected from East Germany to the West. Is it possible that his opacity equations live on after his death?
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The Amorous Milkman
Title: The Amorous Milkman
Character: Iris
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Davey's milk delivery job offers him scant excitement. But when a few of the lonely housewives, including the alluring Rita, want him to deliver a little more than just pints of milk, Davey launches into a series of sexcapades that quickly get out of hand. Soon, he finds himself engaged to two women, dodging a local gangster who doesn't appreciate his "service" and fighting false rape charges in court.
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Title: Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!
Released: September 30, 1974
Type: TV
Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! is an ITV sitcom that ran from 1974 to 1977 starring Bill Maynard as the council labourer, Scarsdale Working Men’s Club secretary, hapless handyman and all-round public nuisance Selwyn Froggitt. It was created by Roy Clarke, who wrote the pilot episode transmitted in 1974, though the series was mostly written by Alan Plater. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television With outdoor location filming of the series filmed in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire and Elvington, North Yorkshire
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Title: Father Brown
Released: September 26, 1974
Type: TV
Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.
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The Turn of the Screw
Title: The Turn of the Screw
Character: Sra. Grose
Released: April 15, 1974
Type: Movie
An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.
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Weekend Guest
Title: Weekend Guest
Character: Beryl Steele
Released: February 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Sir Lionel Hibury is visiting an old friend in Rome, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Sir Lionel is not pleased when daughter, Sheila, become romantically involved with a wealthy young man staying in the flat above them.
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Title: Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Character: Mrs. White
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: TV
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries was a British television series The series was an anthology of different tales. Each episode was introduced by Orson Welles, who was the only regular actor in the series. In the opening titles, Welles would be shown in silhouette as he walked through a hallway towards the camera, smoking a cigar and outfitted in a broad-brimmed hat and a huge cloak, the outfit itself being a nod to his having provided the voice of The Shadow in the radio program. When he actually appeared on-screen to introduce the episodes, his face would be all that would be shown, in extreme close-up and very low lighting.
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Asylum
Title: Asylum
Character: Nurse Higgins
Released: November 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
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Title: The Befrienders
Released: February 19, 1972
Type: TV
The Befrienders is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1972. The series dealt with the work of the Samaritans organisation, and the individual cases its staff came across. The leading cast members were Megs Jenkins and Michael Culver. The Befrienders was first aired as a single play as part of the Drama Playhouse strand in 1970, which was followed by one series of eleven episodes.
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Title: Menace
Released: September 29, 1970
Type: TV
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David Copperfield
Title: David Copperfield
Character: Clara Peggotty
Released: December 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
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The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Title: The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Character: Matron
Released: August 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
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Oliver!
Title: Oliver!
Character: Mrs. Bedwin
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
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Cop-Out
Title: Cop-Out
Character: Mrs. Christoforides
Released: May 23, 1967
Type: Movie
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
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Where the Buffalo Roam
Title: Where the Buffalo Roam
Released: November 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Poor Willy’s mind has been warped by too many Westerns. He sees gunfighters on every corner, even though he’s in 1960s Swansea. Some think Billy’s simple. His Auntie just thinks he’s creative. But he’s on a dark path as his vivid imaginings grow wilder, and the world in his head comes roaring out into reality.An early piece from TV playwright Dennis Potter. (homemcr.otg)
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Title: Mystery and Imagination
Released: January 29, 1966
Type: TV
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Character: Miss Wellcome
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Title: Bunny Lake Is Missing
Character: Sister
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Liz Rikker
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Gentlewoman
Released: March 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
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Murder Most Foul
Title: Murder Most Foul
Character: Gladys Thomas
Released: March 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Dr. Murphy
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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The Barber of Stamford Hill
Title: The Barber of Stamford Hill
Released: January 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that may change.
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Heart to Heart
Title: Heart to Heart
Character: Lady Johnson
Released: December 6, 1962
Type: Movie
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
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Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Released: November 25, 1962
Type: TV
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Life for Ruth
Title: Life for Ruth
Character: Mrs Gordon
Released: September 6, 1962
Type: Movie
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
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The Innocents
Title: The Innocents
Character: Mrs. Grose
Released: December 15, 1961
Type: Movie
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
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The Green Helmet
Title: The Green Helmet
Character: Kitty Launder
Released: April 20, 1961
Type: Movie
After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Joseph Bartell. He wants Greg to test out his latest invention, a heat resistant car tire, in actual racing competition.
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Jet Storm
Title: Jet Storm
Character: Rose Brock
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
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Tiger Bay
Title: Tiger Bay
Character: Mrs. Phillips
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
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Friends and Neighbours
Title: Friends and Neighbours
Character: Lily Grimshaw
Released: January 11, 1959
Type: Movie
During the Cold War, a British family struggles to overcome cultural differences as they welcome two Russian social workers into their home for a visit.
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Indiscreet
Title: Indiscreet
Character: Doris Banks
Released: July 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. She loses her concentration for a moment as she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
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The Story of Esther Costello
Title: The Story of Esther Costello
Character: Nurse Evans
Released: November 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
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The Passionate Stranger
Title: The Passionate Stranger
Character: Millie
Released: March 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
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The Man in the Sky
Title: The Man in the Sky
Character: Mrs. Snowden
Released: January 24, 1957
Type: Movie
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
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Title: Nathaniel Titlark
Released: February 21, 1956
Type: TV
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John and Julie
Title: John and Julie
Character: Mrs. Pritchett
Released: July 26, 1955
Type: Movie
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
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Out of the Clouds
Title: Out of the Clouds
Character: Mrs Jones, the Landlady
Released: February 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A day following workers at an airport
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The Gay Dog
Title: The Gay Dog
Character: Maggie Gay
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
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Trouble in Store
Title: Trouble in Store
Character: Miss Gibson
Released: December 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
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Personal Affair
Title: Personal Affair
Character: Vi Vining
Released: October 20, 1953
Type: Movie
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
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Rough Shoot
Title: Rough Shoot
Character: Mrs. Powell
Released: March 30, 1953
Type: Movie
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
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The Cruel Sea
Title: The Cruel Sea
Character: Tallow's Sister
Released: February 24, 1953
Type: Movie
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
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Ivanhoe
Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Servant to Isaac
Released: July 31, 1952
Type: Movie
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Secret People
Title: Secret People
Character: Penny
Released: February 5, 1952
Type: Movie
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Gentlewoman
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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White Corridors
Title: White Corridors
Character: Mrs. Briggs
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
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No Place for Jennifer
Title: No Place for Jennifer
Character: Mrs. Marshall
Released: January 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Title: A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Character: Nan Ritchie
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
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The History of Mr. Polly
Title: The History of Mr. Polly
Character: The Innkeeper
Released: February 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Title: Saraband for Dead Lovers
Character: Frau Busche
Released: October 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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The Monkey's Paw
Title: The Monkey's Paw
Character: Mrs. Alice Trelawne
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
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The Brothers
Title: The Brothers
Character: Angustina
Released: May 7, 1947
Type: Movie
An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
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Green for Danger
Title: Green for Danger
Character: Nurse Woods
Released: December 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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Painted Boats
Title: Painted Boats
Character: Barmaid
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.
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29 Acacia Avenue
Title: 29 Acacia Avenue
Character: Shirley
Released: May 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
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The Ten Year Plan
Title: The Ten Year Plan
Character: Housewife
Released: January 2, 1945
Type: Movie
The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes.
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It's in the Bag
Title: It's in the Bag
Character: Peach St. Clair
Released: February 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
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The Lamp Still Burns
Title: The Lamp Still Burns
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
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Millions Like Us
Title: Millions Like Us
Character: Gwen Price
Released: June 1, 1943
Type: Movie
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
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Poison Pen
Title: Poison Pen
Character: Barmaid
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.