Belle Chrystall
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Biography: From Wikipedia Belle Chrystall (25 April 1910 – 7 June 2003) was a British actress who appeared in a number of leading roles in British films during the 1930s. She was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1910. She came to London and after appearing on stage was given a minor part in a film A Warm Corner, directed by Victor Saville but she was given no more work after that. The filming of Hindle Wakes led her to apply for the part of Jenny Hawthorne which led her to become an instant success. She made her last film in 1940.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: April 25, 1910
Deathday: June 07, 2003
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Gender: Female
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The Edge of the World
Overview: A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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The Circle
Overview: In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-04
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A Warm Corner
Overview: This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-29
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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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Hindle Wakes
Overview: A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-02
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Castle of Crimes
Overview: A wealthy French widow is poisoned in her home, Inspector Hanaud investigates..
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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The Scotland Yard Mystery
Overview: A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-03
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Hobson's Choice
Overview: A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-02
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The Frightened Lady
Overview: A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Anything to Declare?
Overview: John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Friday the Thirteenth
Overview: It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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