Margaretta Scott
Biography: Margaretta Scott was born on February 13, 1912 in Westminster, London, England as Margaretta Mary Winifred Scott. She was an actress and writer, known for All Creatures Great and Small (1978), Things to Come (1936) and Where's Charley? (1952). She was married to John Wooldridge. She died on April 15, 2005 in Marylebone, London.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 13, 1912
Deathday: April 15, 2005
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Idol of Paris
1948-04-24
Idol of Paris
Overview: The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-24
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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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Town on Trial
1957-01-24
Town on Trial
Overview: When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-24
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Crescendo
1970-06-07
Crescendo
Overview: An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-07
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Atlantic Ferry
1941-09-06
Atlantic Ferry
Overview: The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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A Woman Possessed
1958-09-14
A Woman Possessed
Overview: English doctor John Winthrop (Francis Matthews) must protect his new wife, Ann (Kay Callard), from his wealthy and entirely too overbearing mother, Katherine (Margaretta Scott), who has some strong opinions about her son's new union. But things go too far when John accuses Katherine of trying to kill Ann with medication. Could she do such a thing -- and will these three ever have a good relationship?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-14
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Fanny by Gaslight
1944-05-08
Fanny by Gaslight
Overview: Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-08
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Counterblast
1948-05-18
Counterblast
Overview: An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1937-10-20
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Overview: Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-20
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Quiet Wedding
1941-04-19
Quiet Wedding
Overview: A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-19
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The Man from Morocco
1945-04-17
The Man from Morocco
Overview: With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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The Scamp
1957-10-07
The Scamp
Overview: Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-07
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Dirty Work
1934-12-07
Dirty Work
Overview: Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-07
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Paying Guests (Part 2)
1986-10-02
Paying Guests (Part 2)
Overview: Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples' plans for the winter unfold. Florence, for the first time in her life, refuses to go off with her selfish old father. Miss Howard has some momentous news, and the Colonel must make a very brisk about-turn.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-02
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Paying Guests (Part 1)
1986-10-01
Paying Guests (Part 1)
Overview: Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for the beginnings of a late romance. Gossip, bicycle rides, rounds of golf, bridge in the evenings and preparations for the charity concert all make time pass most pleasantly - don't they?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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Where's Charley?
1952-05-20
Where's Charley?
Overview: Musical version of the comedy, "Charley's Aunt," by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-20
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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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Calling Paul Temple
1948-04-29
Calling Paul Temple
Overview: Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-29
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Girl in the News
1940-08-28
Girl in the News
Overview: An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-28
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An Honourable Murder
1960-03-31
An Honourable Murder
Overview: A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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The Story of Shirley Yorke
1949-07-04
The Story of Shirley Yorke
Overview: Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-04
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Adventure Story
1961-06-12
Adventure Story
Overview: The story of Alexander the Great.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-12
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Landfall
1949-09-30
Landfall
Overview: A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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The Last Man to Hang
1956-08-01
The Last Man to Hang
Overview: A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Percy
1971-02-18
Percy
Overview: Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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Peg of Old Drury
1935-08-27
Peg of Old Drury
Overview: a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-27
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The Conquest of the Air
1936-12-01
The Conquest of the Air
Overview: This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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The Woman He Loved
1988-04-03
The Woman He Loved
Overview: In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-03
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The First Gentleman
1948-03-15
The First Gentleman
Overview: The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-15
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Murder Rap
1980-01-31
Murder Rap
Overview: Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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Sabotage at Sea
1942-09-07
Sabotage at Sea
Overview: The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-07
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
1947-12-03
Mrs. Fitzherbert
Overview: The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-03
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Changing Step
1990-07-26
Changing Step
Overview: Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-26
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The Private Life of Don Juan
1934-01-01
The Private Life of Don Juan
Overview: What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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