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Fly Away Peter (1948)
Character: Mary Hapgood
Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different ways as their four children grow up, fall in love and make career choices.
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Uncensored (1942)
Character: Pony Act
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
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Trilby (1947)
Character: Madame Vinard
Single-camera theater production of Trilby performed live and broadcast on the BBC. Intended to evoke the highly successful Trilby stage plays of the 1890s. Lost.
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My Brother Jonathan (1948)
Character: Mrs. Gaige
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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Waterfront (1950)
Character: Mrs. Duncan
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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A Girl Must Live (1939)
Character: Mrs. Blount
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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Come Back Peter (1952)
Character: Mrs. Hapgood
There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.
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I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
Character: 2nd Woman on Train
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.
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Golden Salamander (1950)
Character: Mdm. Guillard
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
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Two Thousand Women (1944)
Character: Mrs. Hadfield
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
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The Man in Grey (1943)
Character: Amelia (uncredited)
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
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The Weaker Sex (1948)
Character: N/A
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
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Temptation Harbour (1947)
Character: Mrs. Frost
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
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