Elisabeth Welch

Elisabeth Welch

Born: January 27, 1904
Died: July 15, 2003

Movies for Elisabeth Welch...

The Tempest
Title: The Tempest
Character: A Goddess
Released: September 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.
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Arabian Adventure
Title: Arabian Adventure
Character: Beggarwoman
Released: July 8, 1979
Type: Movie
An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan (Oliver Tobias), has to overcome genies, fire breathing monsters and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira (Emma Samms).
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
Title: Revenge of the Pink Panther
Character: Mrs. Wu
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: Movie
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
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Girl Stroke Boy
Title: Girl Stroke Boy
Character: Mrs. Delaney
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.
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The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown
Title: The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown
Released: December 28, 1964
Type: Movie
A delightful Christmas musical about a young Jamaican woman who flees her humdrum Liverpool lodgings in search of her glamorous London cousin. Broadcast live on 28 December 1964, this rare TV musical is one of few to have survived from the 1960s. A tale of Afro-Caribbean immigration, the show is unusual for its time in that it doesn't labour the issues around racial tensions in Britain, but simply celebrates Christmas and family.
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Our Man in Havana
Title: Our Man in Havana
Character: Woman
Released: January 27, 1960
Type: Movie
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.
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Dead of Night
Title: Dead of Night
Character: Beulah (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Released: September 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
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Fiddlers Three
Title: Fiddlers Three
Character: Nora
Released: October 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
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Over the Moon
Title: Over the Moon
Character: Cabaret Singer
Released: October 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
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Big Fella
Title: Big Fella
Character: Amanda 'Manda'
Released: January 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Singing Marseilles docker Joe is hired by wealthy English couple, the Oliphants, to find their missing son Gerald. When Joe finds him, he learns Gerald escaped of his own will and takes him to stay with a local singer, who offers a refuge from his repressed white parents.
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Song of Freedom
Title: Song of Freedom
Character: Ruth Zinga
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to learn his roots.
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Soft Lights and Sweet Music
Title: Soft Lights and Sweet Music
Character: Herself
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
British musical film directed by Herbert Smith.
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Death at Broadcasting House
Title: Death at Broadcasting House
Character: Elisabeth Welch
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.