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Now Barabbas (1949)
Character: Woman
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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Background (1953)
Character: Brownie
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
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The Awakening (1954)
Character: The Landlady (uncredited)
"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".
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Escape to Danger (1943)
Character: Karin Möller
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
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The Long Shadow (1961)
Character: Old Lady
Set in post WW II-Vienna this British spy adventure centers on an international effort to thwart the communists that is led by an American newspaper journalist trying to save the two innocents from certain death.
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Woman to Woman (1947)
Character: Concierge
A Canadian officer, David Anson, who falls for French dancer Nicolette Bonnett during wartime, has a child with her, and returns heartbroken after her death from a weak heart, only for his wife to adopt the son, linking their lives across continents and tragedy, exploring themes of love, duty, and lost time.
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A Day to Remember (1953)
Character: Martine's Grandmother
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
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Betrayed (1954)
Character: Jan's Grandmother (as Lilly Kann)
When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.
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I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Character: Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited)
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
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A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
Character: Mrs. Kramm (uncredited)
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
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The White Unicorn (1947)
Character: Shura
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
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No Trees in the Street (1959)
Character: Sarah Jacobson
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
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The Flemish Farm (1943)
Character: Farm wife
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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Whirlpool (1959)
Character: Frau Steen
The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
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Foreign Intrigue (1956)
Character: Blind Housekeeper
Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.
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Flesh and Blood (1951)
Character: Sister Maria
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
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Street Corner (1953)
Character: Mrs. Muller
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
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Beautiful Stranger (1954)
Character: Nichole
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
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Nowhere to Go (1958)
Character: Anna Berg
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
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A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
Character: Charlady
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
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Cat Girl (1957)
Character: Anna
A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.
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Frenzy (1946)
Character: Maria
A spooky seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
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The Clouded Yellow (1950)
Character: Minna Cesare
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.
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Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
Character: Mrs. Adeline Zunz
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)
Character: Queen Charlotte
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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