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Madonna Of The Seven Moons
''Madonna of the Seven Moons'' is a 1945 British drama film directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. The film was produced by Rubeigh James Minney, with cinematography from Jack Cox and screenplay by Roland Pertwee. It was one of the Gainsborough melodramas. Plot A buried trauma from the past holds the key to the disappearance of a respectable married woman. Maddalena has a dual personality which leads her to forsake her husband and daughter, to flee to the house of the Seven Moons in Florence as the mistress of a jewel thief. Cast * Phyllis Calvert as Maddalena Labardi * Stewart Granger as Nino Barucci * Patricia Roc as Angela Labardi * Peter Glenville as Sandro Barucci * John Stuart as Giuseppe Labardi * Nancy Price as Mama Barucci * Reginald Tate as Doctor Charles Ackroyd * Jean Kent as Vittoria * Peter Murray-Hill as Jimmy Logan * Dulcie Gray as Nesta Logan * Alan Haines as Evelyn * Hilda Bayle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Crabtree
Arthur Crabtree (29 October 1900 in Shipley, Yorkshire, England – 15 March 1975 in Worthing, Sussex, England) was a British cinematographer and film director. He directed films with comedians such as Will Hay, the Crazy Gang and Arthur Askey and several of the Gainsborough Melodramas. Cinematographer Crabtree earliest credits as a cinematographer were for British International Pictures. He shot '' Out of the Blue'' (1931) with Jessie Matthews; '' Verdict of the Sea'' (1932); and '' The Maid of the Mountains'' (1932). Crabtree did some films for Michael Powell, '' Lazybones'' (1935) and '' The Love Test'' (1935). He was a camera operator on '' First a Girl''. Gainsborough Pictures Crabtree joined Gainsborough Pictures. He worked on ''The First Offence'' (1936) with John Mills; '' Pot Luck'' (1936) with Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn; '' Everybody Dance'' (1936) with Cicely Courtneidge; and '' All In'' (1936) with Lynn for director Marcel Varnel. He went on to ''Good Morning, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Price
Nancy Price, CBE (3 February 1880 – 31 March 1970), was an English actress on stage and screen, author and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. In addition to appearing on stage she became involved in theatre production and was a founder of the People's National Theatre. Personal life Christened Lilian Nancy Bache Price in Kinver, Staffordshire, England, in 1880, Nancy was the daughter of William Henry Price (a retired farmer) and Sarah Mannix. Her mother was the granddaughter of Sir Henry Mannix. After schooling in her home village and then in nearby Malvern Wells she decided at an early age to become an actress. She married the actor Charles Maude on 17 May 1907, and they were together until his death in 1943. They had two daughters Joan Maude and Elizabeth Maude. Joan, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth's daughter Jennifer Phipps all went on to become actresse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaumont British
The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. It was established as an offshoot of the Gaumont Film Company of France. Film production Gaumont-British was founded in 1898 as the British subsidiary of the French Gaumont Film Company. It became independent of its French parent in 1922 when Isidore Ostrer acquired control of Gaumont-British. In 1927 the Ideal Film Company, a leading silent film maker, merged with Gaumont. The company's Lime Grove Studios was used for film productions, including Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of '' The 39 Steps'' (1935), while its Islington Studios made Hitchcock's '' The Lady Vanishes'' (1938). In the 1930s, the company employed 16,000 people. In the United States, Gaumont-British had its own distribution operation for its films until December 1938, when it outsourced distribution to 20th Century Fox. In 1941 the Rank Organisation bought Gaumont-British and its sister c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chronicle (Adelaide)
''The Chronicle'' was a South Australian weekly newspaper, printed from 1858 to 1975, which evolved through a series of titles. It was printed by the publishers of '' The Advertiser'', its content consisting largely of reprints of articles and Births, Marriages and Deaths columns from the parent newspaper. Its target demographic was country areas where mail delivery was infrequent, and businesses which serviced those areas. ''History'' ''South Australian Weekly Chronicle'' When '' The South Australian Advertiser'' was first published, on 12 July 1858, the editor and managing director John H. Barrow also announced the ''South Australian Weekly Chronicle'', which published on Saturdays. ''South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail'' On 4 January 1868, with the installation of a new steam press, the size of the paper doubled to four sheets, or sixteen pages and changed its banner to ''The South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail''. The editor at this time was William Hay, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Haye
Helen Haye (born Helen Hay, 28 August 1874 – 1 September 1957) was a British stage and film actress. New York Times. 3 September 1957 Stage Hay began acting on the stage in 1898 and debuted in London in 1911 as Gertrude in ''''. In 1927, she starred in 's '' Chance Acquaintance'' at the Criterion Theatre. In 1950, she was in |
Danny Green (actor)
Danny Green (26 May 1903 – 1973) was an English character actor. He was best known for his role as the slow-witted ex-boxer "One-Round" Lawson in '' The Ladykillers''. He worked regularly in film, television and on the stage, including playing comic gangsters in the original London productions of ''Guys and Dolls'' (1953) and '' Do Re Mi'' (1961). One of his last roles was as ''Lord Surrey'' in the '' Randal and Hopkirk'' episode '' Just for the Record'' in 1969. Filmography * '' The Crooked Billet'' (1929) - Rogers * ''Atlantic'' (1929) - Passenger * '' The Fire Raisers'' (1934) - Stedding's Henchman (uncredited) * '' Wild Boy'' (1934) - Driver (uncredited) * '' Things Are Looking Up'' (1935) - Big Black Fox * ''Crime Over London'' (1936) - Klemm * '' Silver Blaze'' (1937) - Barton, Moriarty's Henchman (uncredited) * '' Midnight Menace'' (1937) - Socks, American Henchman * '' Gangway'' (1937) - Shorty * ''Jericho'' (1937) - Sergeant (uncredited) * '' The Squeaker'' (1937) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliot Makeham
Harold Elliott Makeham (22 December 1882 – 8 February 1956) was an English film and television actor. Career Makeham was born in London, England. Between 1931 and 1956, Makeham appeared, primarily in character roles, in 115 films and in 11 television productions. He played a small number of leading roles in the 1930s, but was more regularly seen in cameos as harassed officials or henpecked husbands. Personal life Married three times, Makeham's third wife was British character actress, Betty Shale. Selected filmography * '' Rome Express'' (1932) - Mills * ''I'm an Explosive'' (1933) - Prof. Whimperly * '' Forging Ahead'' (1933) - Abraham Lombard * '' The Lost Chord'' (1933) - Bertie Pollard * ''I Lived with You'' (1933) - Mr. Wallis * ''I Was a Spy'' (1933) - Pharmacist (uncredited) * '' Friday the Thirteenth'' (1933) - Henry Jackson * '' The Roof'' (1933) - John Rutherford * ''The Laughter of Fools'' (1933) - John Gregg * '' Home, Sweet Home'' (1933) - James Merrick * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Speaight
Robert William Speaight (; 1904 – 1976) was a British actor and writer, and the brother of George Speaight, the puppeteer. Speaight studied under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based in the Royal Albert Hall, London. He was an early performer (from 1927) in radio plays. He came to prominence as Becket in the first production of T. S. Eliot's ''Murder in the Cathedral''. He went on to Shakespearean roles and to direct. He played the title role in the first broadcast in 1941-42 of the radio drama ''The Man Born to Be King''. He also wrote criticism and essays, works on the theatre and biography. He was a Roman Catholic convert, and biographer of Hilaire Belloc and Eric Gill. In the case of Gill, a personal friend, he suppressed material about Gill's sexual interests, which would come out only in the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy. He married the Welsh actress Evelyn Bowen, with whom he had a son; they separated in 1939. Evelyn later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Veness
Amy Veness (26 February 1876 – 22 September 1960) was an English film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in ''The Huggetts Trilogy'' and was sometimes credited as Amy Van Ness. Veness was born Amy Clarice Beart in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. She was married to Basil Springett. On 22 September 1960 she died in Saltdean, Sussex, England at age 84. Selected filmography * '' Please Help Emily'' (1917) - Mrs. Lethbridge * ''My Wife'' (1918) - Mrs. Hammond * ''The Brat'' (1919) - Mrs. Forrester * '' The Wife's Family'' (1931) - Arabella Nagg * '' Hobson's Choice'' (1931) - Mrs. Hepworth * '' Tonight's the Night'' (1932) - Emily Smithers * '' Murder on the Second Floor'' (1932) - (uncredited) * '' Money for Nothing'' (1932) - Emma Bolt * '' Self Made Lady'' (1932) - Old Sookey * '' The Marriage Bond'' (1932) - Mrs. Crust * '' Pyjamas Preferred'' (1932) - Mme. Gautier * '' Let Me Explain, Dear'' (1932) - Aunt Fanny * '' Red Wagon'' (1933) - Petal Schultze * '' The Love Nest' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Bayley
Hilda Christabel Bailey (29 June 1888 – 26 May 1971) was a British theatre and film actress. On stage from 1913, she was in both stage and film versions of ''Carnival'' in 1918 and 1921, respectively; and in the controversial crime film ''Cocaine'' in 1922. Partial filmography * '' Sisters in Arms'' (1918, Short) - WAAC Girl * ''The Soul of Guilda Lois'' (1919) * '' Under Suspicion'' (1919) - Countess Nada * '' The Barton Mystery'' (1920) - Ethel Standish * ''Carnival'' (1921) - Simonetta * ''Cocaine'' (1922) - Madge Webster * '' Flames of Passion'' (1922) - Kate Watson * ''The Scandal (1923 film)'' (1923) - Charlotte * '' The Woman Who Obeyed'' (1923) - Marion Dorchester * ''The Secret Adversary'' (1929) - Rita van den Meer * ''Head Office'' (1936) - Mrs. Braham * '' Under a Cloud'' (1937) - Rosalyn Forbes * '' Room for Two'' (1940) - Dressmaker * ''The Farmer's Wife'' (1941) - Mrs. Rundle * '' Jeannie'' (1941) - Mrs. Jansen * ''Much Too Shy'' (1942) - Lady Driscoll * '' Went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Haines
Alan Haines (6 June 1924 – 17 April 2011) was a British actor and playwright who spent four years in the Royal Navy during World War II — including at D-Day on his 20th birthday and appeared in many West End shows and touring productions, as well as in the cult TV series Dad's Army and Van der Valk and two notable films: ''Dad's Army'' and ''The Man in the White Suit'', and the acclaimed BBC TV Series '' Perfect Strangers''. He died in Charing Cross Hospital on 17 April 2011. Works * ''The Prince of Portobello'' Play (1962) * Autobiography Haines (2006) ''The Mad Mad-Century Rag'' London: MER Publishing (2007), Selected filmography * '' |
Dulcie Gray
Dulcie Winifred Catherine Savage Denison, (''née'' Bailey; 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011), known professionally as Dulcie Gray, was a British actress, mystery writer and lepidopterist. While at drama school in the late 1930s she met a fellow student, Michael Denison. They married in 1939 and were together for 59 years before his death in 1998. The couple's professional careers were intertwined; in their early years they appeared in several films together and throughout their careers they frequently acted on stage together. Although she was well known for her starring roles in films of the late 1940s and early 1950s, most of Gray's career was in the theatre. Her range was extensive, and she appeared in Shakespeare, farce, thrillers, classics by Sheridan, Wilde, Chekhov, Shaw and Coward, absurdist drama, and numerous new plays. In the 1980s she became well known to British television viewers when she starred in a long-running soap opera, '' Howards' Way''. Alongside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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