Mary Jerrold

Mary Jerrold

Born: December 3, 1877
Died: March 3, 1955
in London, England, UK

Movies for Mary Jerrold...

Meet Me Tonight
Title: Meet Me Tonight
Character: Nanny (segment "Ways and Means")
Released: September 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
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She Shall Have Murder
Title: She Shall Have Murder
Character: Mrs. Robjohn
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
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Marry Me
Title: Marry Me
Character: Emily Parsons
Released: June 7, 1949
Type: Movie
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
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The Queen of Spades
Title: The Queen of Spades
Character: Old Varvarushka
Released: March 16, 1949
Type: Movie
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
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Woman Hater
Title: Woman Hater
Character: Lady Datchett
Released: October 13, 1948
Type: Movie
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Title: Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Character: Mrs. Perrin
Released: September 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
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Bond Street
Title: Bond Street
Character: Miss Slennett
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
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The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Title: The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Character: Lettie
Released: October 30, 1947
Type: Movie
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
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The Magic Bow
Title: The Magic Bow
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
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The Way Ahead
Title: The Way Ahead
Character: Mrs. Gillingham
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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The Flemish Farm
Title: The Flemish Farm
Character: Mme Duclos
Released: September 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
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The Gentle Sex
Title: The Gentle Sex
Character: Mrs. Sheridan
Released: May 23, 1943
Type: Movie
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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Return to Yesterday
Title: Return to Yesterday
Character: Old Lady
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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Jamaica Inn
Title: Jamaica Inn
Character: Miss Black (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
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Saturday Night Revue
Title: Saturday Night Revue
Character: Mrs. Dorland
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not approve of her singing career, believes she is performing at the Society one...
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Jack of All Trades
Title: Jack of All Trades
Character: Mrs. Warrender
Released: December 30, 1936
Type: Movie
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
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The Price of Wisdom
Title: The Price of Wisdom
Character: Mary Temple
Released: August 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
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Fighting Stock
Title: Fighting Stock
Character: Emmie
Released: April 9, 1935
Type: Movie
The Aldwych Theater farceurs are at it again in Fighting Stock. The punning title refers to a well-stocked rural fishing stream, which sparks a battle royale between two rival groups of fishermen. Brigadier-General Sir Donald Rowley (Tom Walls) gets involved in the fray when he rents a country cottage with his nephew Sydney (Ralph Lynn). While the nephew pitches woo at the local maidens, General Rowley adopts military tactics to reclaim the stream from village squire Duck (J. Robertson Hare).
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The Great Defender
Title: The Great Defender
Character: Mrs. Hammond
Released: November 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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Doctor's Orders
Title: Doctor's Orders
Character: Mary Blake
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
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The Lash
Title: The Lash
Character: Margaret Haughton
Released: October 21, 1934
Type: Movie
One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Flora Wakefield
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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Perfect Understanding
Title: Perfect Understanding
Character: Mrs. Graham
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
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The Last Coupon
Title: The Last Coupon
Character: Polly Carter
Released: July 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
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The Shadow Between
Title: The Shadow Between
Character: Mrs. Maddox
Released: September 4, 1931
Type: Movie
A romantic drama film directed by Norman Walker.
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Alibi
Title: Alibi
Character: Mrs. Ackroyd
Released: April 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
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The Sport of Kings
Title: The Sport of Kings
Character: Mrs. Purdie
Released: February 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
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The W Plan
Title: The W Plan
Character: Frau Muller
Released: February 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
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A Sinless Sinner
Title: A Sinless Sinner
Character: Mary Hendon
Released: August 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A forger's arrest shocks his pregnant wife, causing their daughter to suffer strange trances.