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It Started in Paradise (1952)
Character: Lady Caroline Frencham
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
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Fast and Loose (1954)
Character: Carol Hankin
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
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Cole Porter in Hollywood: Ça c'est l'amour (2003)
Character: Scenes: Les Girls (archive footage)
This documentary short subject for DVD gives a look at the making of Cole Porter's MGM classic, "Les Girls". Hosted by Finnish film legend and star of "Les Girls", Taina Elg tells of working with Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall and George Cukor on one of the last great MGM musicals.
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London Town (1946)
Character: Patsy
Veteran music-hall entertainer Jerry Stanford a washed-up comedian hopes to stage a comeback in a glittering new revue. Alas, Stanford is hired as merely an understudy and bit player. His faithful daughter pulls a few fast ones in order to get her dad back on stage in a starring role....
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Night and the City (1950)
Character: Helen's Girl (uncredited)
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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Quentin Durward (1955)
Character: Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott.
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Doctor in the House (1954)
Character: Miss Isobel Minster
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
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Simon and Laura (1955)
Character: Laura Foster
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
Character: Sylvia Clark
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
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Street of Shadows (1953)
Character: Barbara Gale
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.
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Curtain Up (1952)
Character: Sandra Beverley
In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.
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Fiddlers Three (1944)
Character: Girl (uncredited)
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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Wings of Danger (1952)
Character: Alexia LaRoche
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion.
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Mantrap (1953)
Character: Vera Corridge
Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.
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Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
Character: Lonely Hearts Singer
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Character: Slave Girl (uncredited)
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
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The Constant Husband (1955)
Character: Monica Hathaway
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
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Genevieve (1953)
Character: Rosalind Peters
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
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The Square Ring (1953)
Character: Eve
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
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Champagne Charlie (1944)
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
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Once More, with Feeling! (1960)
Character: Dolly Fabian
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn when he begins an affair with a young pianist.
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Happy Go Lovely (1951)
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting financiers. Bruno meets several leading ladies; through a misunderstanding, he doesn't correct their impression that he's a newspaper reporter.
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The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
Character: Sheila Broadbent
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its final "Debutante Season."
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Les Girls (1957)
Character: Lady Sybil Wren
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
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Dance Hall (1950)
Character: Doreen
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
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Abdulla the Great (1955)
Character: Ronnie
Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.
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