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Silver Lining (1977)
Character: Laura Beaumont
1977: Edgar Parker is about to emigrate to Canada. His wife wants him to stay in London for the Jubilee celebrations.
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No Time for Tears (1957)
Character: Dr. Marian Cornish
The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children's lives. One small child risks losing his sight, while twin boys fool the doctors over which one has appendicitis. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, new nurse Margaret Collier suffers pangs of unrequited love for houseman Dr. Nigel Barnes.
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Stork Talk (1962)
Character: N/A
A gynecologist's wife leaves him, but returns when she finds out she's pregnant; but so is someone her husband's been very friendly with in her absence. Coincidence?
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The Flood (1963)
Character: Mrs. Weathersfield
Eight youngsters are cut off by the East Anglian floods in a farmhouse with no grown-ups to help them. The story tells how they deal with the situation until they are rescued.
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Anna Karenina (1961)
Character: Dolly
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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Justice Is a Woman (1969)
Character: Mrs. Harper
Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth, an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.
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Tales from Hollywood (1992)
Character: Guest
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.
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Trottie True (1949)
Character: Bertha True
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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Hobson's Choice (1954)
Character: Alice Hobson
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Character: Lady Grenville
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
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Laughing Anne (1953)
Character: Blonde singer
Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
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A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
Character: Dora
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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Growing Pains (1980)
Character: Matron
An old book containing a strange poem resurrects a vengeful spirit from the dead. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.
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Real Life (1984)
Character: Morality Lady
A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble.
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The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Character: Fanny
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
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Snowball (1960)
Character: Nora Hart
A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.
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Bitter Harvest (1963)
Character: Mrs. Medwin
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
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The Beggar's Opera (1953)
Character: Lucy Lockit
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
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Au Pair Girls (1972)
Character: Mrs. Howard
Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
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Captain Clegg (1962)
Character: Mrs. Rash
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.
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