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Esther Waters (1948)
Character: Mrs. Latch
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
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Portrait of Clare (1950)
Character: Lady Hingston
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
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Hindle Wakes (1931)
Character: Mrs. Jeffcote
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
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Keepers of Youth (1931)
Character: Mrs. Venner
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
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The Outsider (1931)
Character: Mrs. Coates
An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.
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The Skin Game (1921)
Character: Chloe Hornblower
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village. The original silent version of a film Hitchcock later adapted with sound.
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The Feather (1929)
Character: Mrs Dalton
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
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Cardboard Cavalier (1949)
Character: Milady Doverhouse
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
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Climbing High (1938)
Character: Lady Emily Westaker
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.
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Shadows (1931)
Character: Lily
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
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Many Waters (1931)
Character: Mrs. Rosel
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
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Becket (1924)
Character: Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
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The Price of Silence (1959)
Character: Mrs. West
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
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The Briggs Family (1940)
Character: Mrs. Briggs
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
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The Constant Nymph (1933)
Character: Linda Sanger
Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett). Undermining the already delicate Tessa’s health, the composer realises that life without Tessa is unbearable and leaves his unloving wife – but sadly too late.
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Hindle Wakes (1952)
Character: Mrs. Martha Jeffcote
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
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London Town (1946)
Character: Mrs. Gates
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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One Exciting Night (1944)
Character: Mrs. Trout
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
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Old Bill and Son (1941)
Character: Maggie
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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The Three Weird Sisters (1948)
Character: Maude Morgan-Vaughan
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
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Lights of London (1924)
Character: Hetty Preene
An heir, framed by his cousin for killing his father, breaks jail and saves his wife from a fire.
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Gipsy Blood (1931)
Character: Factory Girl
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
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The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
Character: Millie Draper
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
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The Challenge (1938)
Character: His Mother
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Character: Baroness Isabel Nisatona
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
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The Constant Nymph (1928)
Character: Linda Sanger
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
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My Brother Jonathan (1948)
Character: Mrs. Dakers
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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The Citadel (1938)
Character: Mrs. Orlando
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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Young and Innocent (1937)
Character: Erica's Aunt Margaret
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
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The Night Has Eyes (1942)
Character: Mrs. Ranger
Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.
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The Black Rose (1950)
Character: Countess Eleanor of Lessford
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
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A Girl Must Live (1939)
Character: Mrs. Wallis
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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The Next of Kin (1942)
Character: Mrs. Webster
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
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Penny Princess (1952)
Character: Maria
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
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Moulin Rouge (1952)
Character: Madame Loubet
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.
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Oliver Twist (1948)
Character: Mrs. Corney
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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Fiddlers Three (1944)
Character: Volumnia
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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The Clairvoyant (1935)
Character: Mother
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
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The Rat (1937)
Character: Mere Colline
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
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The Beggar's Opera (1953)
Character: Mrs. Peachum
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
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Mambo (1954)
Character: La contessa Luisa Marisoni
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.
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The Patient Vanishes (1941)
Character: Matron
Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
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Lorna Doone (1934)
Character: Mistress Sara Ridd
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)
Character: Duchess of Devonshire
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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The Guv'nor (1935)
Character: Mme. Barsac
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
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The Mill on the Floss (1937)
Character: Mrs. Moss
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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