Iris Hoey

Iris Hoey

Born: July 17, 1885
Died: May 13, 1979

Movies for Iris Hoey...

The Girl Who Couldn't Quite
Title: The Girl Who Couldn't Quite
Character: Janet
Released: January 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A tramp is invited to stay with the family of a teenage girl who has been unable to smile since childhood in a bid to cure her.
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Poet's Pub
Title: Poet's Pub
Character: Lady Keith
Released: July 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
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Just William
Title: Just William
Character: Mrs. Brown
Released: July 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.
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The Midas Touch
Title: The Midas Touch
Character: Ellie Morgan
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A Film Directed by David MacDonald ....
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Ysabel
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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Jane Steps Out
Title: Jane Steps Out
Character: Mrs. Wilton
Released: May 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Wallflower Jane Wilton has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful and popular sister Beatrice. Making things worse, Beatrice is spiteful and cruel, directing all manner of nastiness towards the submissive and uncomplaining Jane. But when Beatrice sets her cap for Jane's erstwhile boy friend Basil Gilbert, she goes a shade too far. For once, the worm turns, and Jane fights tooth and nail to win her man back. A retelling of the Cinderella story.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Mrs. Elvery
Released: May 2, 1938
Type: Movie
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
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Let's Make a Night of It
Title: Let's Make a Night of It
Character: Laura Boydell
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.
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The Tenth Man
Title: The Tenth Man
Character: Lady Etchingham
Released: August 12, 1936
Type: Movie
George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.
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Once in a Million
Title: Once in a Million
Character: Mrs Fenwick
Released: August 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Fantasy of a bank clerk who accepts a deposit of a million too late to put it in the bank and has to guard it over the weekend.
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A Star Fell from Heaven
Title: A Star Fell from Heaven
Character: Frau Heinmeyer
Released: June 8, 1936
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star. Unfortunately he soon encounters unanticipated problems. He is especially concerned about his girl friend who dumped him in favor of the voiceless star.
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Living Dangerously
Title: Living Dangerously
Character: Lady Annesley
Released: March 8, 1936
Type: Movie
The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.
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Those Were the Days
Title: Those Were the Days
Character: Agatha Poskett
Released: April 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
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Her Reputation
Title: Her Reputation
Character: Dultitia Sloane
Released: July 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman plans to boost her public profile by getting a divorce. She enlists the help of a male friend to act as co-respondent leading to a series of mix-ups and her eventual decision not to get divorced.