Vera Pearce

Vera Pearce

Born: May 27, 1895
Died: January 18, 1966
in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Movies for Vera Pearce...

Nothing Barred
Title: Nothing Barred
Character: Lady Millicent
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
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The Night We Got the Bird
Title: The Night We Got the Bird
Character: Aunt
Released: November 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Men of Sherwood Forest
Character: Elvira
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
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One Wild Oat
Title: One Wild Oat
Character: Mrs. Gilbey
Released: May 16, 1951
Type: Movie
A lawyer's plan to break up his daughter's budding romance backfires when the boyfriend's father becomes involved.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Character: Mrs. Crummles
Released: March 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
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Yes, Madam?
Title: Yes, Madam?
Character: Pansy Beresford
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The hilarious tale of two cousins who must complete a period in domestic service in order to receive an inheritance.
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Please Teacher
Title: Please Teacher
Character: Petunia Trundle
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Tommy Deacon learns that a gift bequeathed by his aunt is hidden in her house inside a bust of Napoleon. However, the house has been sold, and is now a girls school and to gain admission Tommy has to pose as the elder brother of Anne, one of the pupils. His arrival in the school results in a variety of escapades, but Tommy resolutely persists in his search for the missing legacy...
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Southern Roses
Title: Southern Roses
Released: September 30, 1936
Type: Movie
A musical comedy of false identities.
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Heat Wave
Title: Heat Wave
Character: Gloria Spania
Released: May 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.
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So You Won't Talk
Title: So You Won't Talk
Character: Edith
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write anything for a period of one month.
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That's a Good Girl
Title: That's a Good Girl
Character: Suny Berata
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
That's a Good Girl is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Buchanan and starring Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Dorothy Hyson. The film was based on a musical show of the same title that opened at the Lewisham Hippodrome on 19 March 1928, in which Jack Buchanan also starred. The music was written by Joseph Meyer and Phil Charig, with lyrics by Douglas Furber. The film omitted much of music of the original show, but popularised one song in particular, Fancy our Meeting. The song remained a Jack Buchanan favourite and a version of it was also recorded by Al Bowlly shortly after the film's release.
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Yes, Mr. Brown
Title: Yes, Mr. Brown
Character: Franzi
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The manager of a foreign branch of an American toy company attempts to entertain his visiting American boss to obtain a partnership.