Ann Todd
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1907, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer. She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School, Eastbourne. She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1945) (as a troubled concert pianist). She is perhaps best known to American audiences as Gregory Peck's long-suffering wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitled The Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain. Todd was known as the "pocket Garbo" for her diminutive, blond beauty. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ann Todd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 24, 1909
Deathday: May 06, 1993
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Things to Come
1936-03-31
Things to Come
Overview: The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-31
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1984-01-01
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Overview: Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Paradine Case
1947-12-31
The Paradine Case
Overview: Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer is drawn to the enigmatic beauty, and he begins to cast about for a way to exonerate his client. Keane puts the Paradine household servant on the stand, suggesting he is the killer. But Keane soon loses his way in the courtroom, and his half-baked plan sets off a stunning chain of events.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-31
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Time Without Pity
1957-03-21
Time Without Pity
Overview: Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-21
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The Seventh Veil
1945-10-18
The Seventh Veil
Overview: A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-18
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960-03-25
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Overview: A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-25
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Taste of Fear
1961-06-05
Taste of Fear
Overview: A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-05
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The Human Factor
1979-12-18
The Human Factor
Overview: A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-18
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Madeleine
1950-02-16
Madeleine
Overview: The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-16
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Daybreak
1948-05-18
Daybreak
Overview: A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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So Evil My Love
1948-08-02
So Evil My Love
Overview: In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-02
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The Passionate Friends
1949-01-26
The Passionate Friends
Overview: A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-26
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The Sound Barrier
1952-10-10
The Sound Barrier
Overview: Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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90° in the Shade
1965-10-01
90° in the Shade
Overview: In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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South Riding
1938-08-01
South Riding
Overview: Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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The Return of Bulldog Drummond
1934-04-19
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Overview: Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-19
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The Squeaker
1937-11-11
The Squeaker
Overview: London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Genres: Romance Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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Perfect Strangers
1945-10-15
Perfect Strangers
Overview: After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-15
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The Fiend
1972-04-30
The Fiend
Overview: Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-30
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The Green Scarf
1954-08-25
The Green Scarf
Overview: A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense attorney, Delfot (Michael Redgrave), to unravel the mystery behind his actions.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-25
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Ships with Wings
1941-11-10
Ships with Wings
Overview: Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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The Water Gipsies
1932-03-21
The Water Gipsies
Overview: Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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Danny Boy
1941-08-25
Danny Boy
Overview: A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-25
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Action for Slander
1937-07-21
Action for Slander
Overview: A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-21
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The Ghost Train
1931-09-22
The Ghost Train
Overview: The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-22
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Poison Pen
1939-07-03
Poison Pen
Overview: The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-03
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The McGuffin
1986-01-12
The McGuffin
Overview: Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-12
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Gaiety George
1946-07-15
Gaiety George
Overview: The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-15
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The Son of Captain Blood
1962-07-27
The Son of Captain Blood
Overview: The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-07-27
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Keepers of Youth
1931-12-31
Keepers of Youth
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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These Charming People
1931-07-23
These Charming People
Overview: A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-23
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We Serve
1942-06-29
We Serve
Overview: Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-29
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021-05-02
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Overview: Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-02
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