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The Matchmaker (1954)
Character: Irene Malloy
Can the ever-resilient Mrs. Levi melt the heart of the eternally sour-tempered Mr. Vandergelder?
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
Character: Helen D'Oyly Carte
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
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Lemonade (1971)
Character: Edith
A perceptive and funny study about the fantasies, inhibitions and dreams of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons who set up competing lemonade stands along a jammed highway. This short play incorporates comedy and tragedy, a touch of the bizarre, and ultimately, a sincere compassion in both women.
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The Woman I Love (1972)
Character: Queen Mary
The love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.
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Hamlet (1964)
Character: Gertrude
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
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The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)
Character: Henrietta Stein
Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.
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Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)
Character: Frau Ida Koertner
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
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For Better, for Worse (1954)
Character: Helen Purves
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
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Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953)
Character: Isabel, the boy's mother
Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
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The Sea Gull (1968)
Character: Polina
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
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Hamlet (1948)
Character: Gertrude - The Queen
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
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She Didn't Say No! (1958)
Character: Bridget Monaghan
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.
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Hungry Hill (1947)
Character: Katherine
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
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