Dawn Addams
Biography: Victoria Dawn Addams (21 September 1930 – 7 May 1985) was a British actress, particularly in Hollywood motion pictures of the 1950s and on British television in the 1960s and 1970s. She became a princess in 1954 (until 1971). Addams was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Ethel Mary (née Hickie) and Captain James Ramage Addams, of the Royal Air Force. Her mother died when she was young, and she spent her early life in Calcutta, India. Addams' face and physique attracted the attention of talent agents. In December 1950, she signed a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Her film career began with a role in Night into Morning (1951), and her subsequent MGM films included Singin' in the Rain (1952), Plymouth Adventure (1952), Young Bess (1953) and the female lead opposite Peter Lawford in The Hour of 13 (1952). She played David Niven's daughter in The Moon Is Blue (1953), a film which helped loosen the system of censorship of Hollywood which had been in place since 1934. She also embarked on a USO tour the same year to help entertain troops in Korea. She worked steadily in films during the remainder of the 1950s, including a heavily publicised role as Richard Carlson's model girlfriend in the science fiction film Riders to the Stars (1954) and the female lead opposite actor-director-filmmaker legend Charlie Chaplin in his final comedy to star himself, A King in New York (1957). During the 1960s and 1970s, she appeared mainly in British TV shows and French films. She was a semi-regular on the instructional series En France (1962) and the leading lady in several episodes of The Saint (1962–69), which starred Roger Moore as Simon Templar. Among her last film credits were two British horror films, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and The Vault of Horror (1973), and she was also a regular in the British sitcom Father, Dear Father (1971–1973). One of her last television roles was in the science fiction serial Star Maidens (1977). Addams retired in the early 1980s, dividing her remaining years between Europe and the United States. She married Don Vittorio Emanuele Massimo, Prince of Roccasecca, in 1954; the wedding was the subject of a cover story in Life magazine. They separated four years later, though they did not formally divorce until 1971. Their son, Prince Stefano (b.1955), married Atalanta Foxwell, daughter of film producer Ivan Foxwell and Lady Edith (Lambart), granddaughter of the 9th Earl of Cavan. In 1974 she married retired businessman Jimmy White. Addams died in 1985 in a London hospital at age 54 from lung cancer.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 21, 1930
Deathday: May 07, 1985
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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960-10-24
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Overview: After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling human personalities, the kindly, generous Dr Henry Jekyll succeeds in freeing his own alter ego, Edward Hyde, a sadistic, evil creature whose pleasure is murder.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-24
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The Vampire Lovers
1970-10-04
The Vampire Lovers
Overview: In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-04
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The Silent Enemy
1958-03-04
The Silent Enemy
Overview: The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
Genres: History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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The Black Tulip
1964-02-28
The Black Tulip
Overview: Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-28
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Chaplin Today: 'A King in New York'
2003-03-01
Chaplin Today: 'A King in New York'
Overview: An examination of Charles Chaplin's final starring film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-01
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A King in New York
1957-09-12
A King in New York
Overview: A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-12
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The Robe
1953-09-16
The Robe
Overview: Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-16
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Singin' in the Rain
1952-04-09
Singin' in the Rain
Overview: In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-09
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Come Dance with Me!
1959-12-18
Come Dance with Me!
Overview: The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a dancer's death.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-18
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The Unknown Man
1951-11-09
The Unknown Man
Overview: A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-09
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960-09-13
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Overview: A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-13
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The Moon Is Blue
1953-07-08
The Moon Is Blue
Overview: Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-08
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The Vault of Horror
1973-03-16
The Vault of Horror
Overview: The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Plymouth Adventure
1952-11-28
Plymouth Adventure
Overview: During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford's wife Dorothy.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-28
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Ballad in Blue
1965-02-18
Ballad in Blue
Overview: Ray Charles plays himself in this film where he helps blind boy David in his struggle to regain his sight. David’s over-protective mother Peggy is afraid of the risks connected with restoring his sight. Ray tries to help the whole family, offering the heavy-drinking Peggy’s heavy-drinking partner Steve an opportunity to work with his band.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-18
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Riders to the Stars
1954-01-14
Riders to the Stars
Overview: Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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Pensione Edelweiss
1959-03-10
Pensione Edelweiss
Overview: A man who was injured in an accident has a visitor in his hospital. The visitor suggests a strange deal.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-10
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Come Fly with Me
1963-03-27
Come Fly with Me
Overview: Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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Return to Treasure Island
1954-06-30
Return to Treasure Island
Overview: There's something to be said for finishing what you've started. That's why the gentile Captain Long John Silver is heading back to Treasure Island to see if he can unearth the cache of riches buried there by his colleague, Captain Flint. At the same time, he also hopes to bring to safety the governor's daughter and a young boy abducted by El Toro.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-30
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Zeta One
1969-12-01
Zeta One
Overview: Women around the globe begin disappearing when a renegade race of top-heavy aliens from the planet Angvia begin snatching them off the streets.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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The Secrets of the Bed
1954-05-19
The Secrets of the Bed
Overview: Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-19
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Khyber Patrol
1954-09-04
Khyber Patrol
Overview: British officers of India is jeopardized when warlords Ahmed Shir and Prince Ishak Khan battle at the Khyber Pass. Enter Capt. Kyle Cameron of the British Lancers, whose renegade style may either save the day or doom the region to chaos. When Cameron learns that greater forces are pulling the strings, he attempts to destroy Shir's rebel faction from within.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-04
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Sentimental Education
1962-05-02
Sentimental Education
Overview: Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in love with Frédéric and in order to keep him away from Anne, pushes him into Barbara's arms.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-02
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Where the Bullets Fly
1966-09-06
Where the Bullets Fly
Overview: In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-06
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The Treasure of San Teresa
1959-07-21
The Treasure of San Teresa
Overview: After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-21
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The House of Intrigue
1956-11-30
The House of Intrigue
Overview: A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-11-30
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The Hour of 13
1952-11-21
The Hour of 13
Overview: 1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-21
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The Scarlet Baroness
1959-02-20
The Scarlet Baroness
Overview: During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons program.
Genres: Crime War Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-02-20
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The Angry Young Men
1960-04-27
The Angry Young Men
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-27
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Prisoner of the Volga
1959-03-26
Prisoner of the Volga
Overview: A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-26
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The Girl on The Roof
1953-12-16
The Girl on The Roof
Overview: A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There she meets Donald's upstairs neighbors, his ex-fiancée Cynthia and her father, roguish David Slader. Both men are determined to bed the young woman, but they quickly discover Patty is more interested in engaging in spirited discussions about the pressing moral and sexual issues of the day than surrendering her virginity to either one of them. After resisting their amorous advances throughout the night, Patty leaves and returns to the Empire State Building, where Donald finds her and proposes marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-12-16
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The £20,000 Kiss
1962-12-31
The £20,000 Kiss
Overview: An up and coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-31
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Rommel's Treasure
1955-12-22
Rommel's Treasure
Overview: The underworld of Cairo is alerted to certain moves of various people in the search for Rommel's treasure. Some are intent on the valuables, while others seek only the documents. The searchers, each working for individual reasons, are: von Brunner, an ex-officer of Rommel's staff who seeks the treasure to aid families of the fallen; Wells, a famous American news photographer out for a scoop; Mrs. Fischer, owner of a luxury riverboat nightclub, who seeks the documents for a foreign power, and Krikorian, pretending to be helping Mrs. Fischer but is really interested in making what he can for himself. Sofia, a cabaret star for Mrs. Fischer, is in love with von Brmmer and unwittingly endangers her life when Mrs. Fischer discovers she is helping von Brunner in his quest.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Secret professionnel
1959-10-21
Secret professionnel
Overview: Catherine Langeac and André Foucaud are a medical couple, she a general practitioner and he a gynecologist. Their attentiveness and understanding enable them to solve many of their patients' problems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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A Friend Indeed
1973-04-17
A Friend Indeed
Overview: Sir Lionel Hibury is visiting an old friend in Rome, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Sir Lionel is not pleased when daughter, Sheila, become romantically involved with a wealthy young man staying in the flat above them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-17
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The Black Chapel
1959-10-15
The Black Chapel
Overview: 1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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The Bargain Hunters
1971-08-10
The Bargain Hunters
Overview: Tom and Cynthia buy a £20 painting and suddenly believe it to be valuable.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-10
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Night Into Morning
1951-06-08
Night Into Morning
Overview: Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-08
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House of Sin
1961-10-25
House of Sin
Overview: In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in Africa. He is looking for a wife and begins advertising in the newspaper. Instead he finds himself victimized by con-artists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-25
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Elementary, My Dear Watson
1973-01-18
Elementary, My Dear Watson
Overview: John Cleese stars as Sherlock Holmes in this Comedy Playhouse pilot episode from 1973.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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Four of the Thundering Jet
1955-12-30
Four of the Thundering Jet
Overview: In post-war Italy, some pilots of the Air Force, despite the difficulties in which they are forced to operate, manage to form an acrobatic squadron. From the dedication of these men will be born the "Frecce Tricolori", the Italian Air Force's acrobatic squadron.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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Temptation
1959-03-04
Temptation
Overview: When a ship bringing a contingent of international wounded from Korea is torpedoed, three women (two nurses and a secretary) and a male journalist survive and reach a lonely island in a boat. Soon desire erupts among them, but jealousy, lust and madness lead the events to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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The Woman Who Came from the Sea
1954-01-22
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-22
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Sappho
1971-03-24
Sappho
Overview: Françoise Legrand, better known as "Sappho", attractive young woman of the Parisian bourgeoisie, flits from man to man with the consent of Maurice Duran-Vior, his rich protector, a renowned financier. At a social gathering, she meets Lionel de Lancey, younger than she, a cool diplomat, and, as usual, she spends the night with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-24
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The Count of Bragelonne
1954-12-09
The Count of Bragelonne
Overview: Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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A Room in Town
1970-09-15
A Room in Town
Overview: A woman discovers that her husband has rented a flat in London for his mistress, and sets out to catch him in the act
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-15
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Follow That Man
1961-01-01
Follow That Man
Overview: A farcical comedy about a con-man and a girl reporter who find romance while the former is planning a coup at a Swedish dowager's expense.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
2018-08-30
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-08-30
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Young Bess
1953-05-29
Young Bess
Overview: The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-29
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