Betty Warren
Also Known As: Babette Hilda Hogan
Biography: Betty Warren (31 October 1907 – 15 December 1990) was a British actress during the 1930s to 1950s, best known for her comedy roles in such films as Champagne Charlie (1944) and Passport to Pimlico (1949). Born Babette Hilda Hogan, in Fareham, Hampshire, England, she appeared in Goody Two Shoes at the Prince's Theatre in Bristol during 1930-31, and in the musical play Balalaika, which opened in London at the Adelphi Theatre on 22 December 1936 and which ran for 569 performances. In 1945 she appeared in the 'musical extravaganza' Magic Carpet at the Princes Theatre in London. Warren's first film appearance was in Magyar Melody in 1939, followed by The Farmer's Wife (1941), Secret Mission (1942), Variety Jubilee (1943), They Met in the Dark (1943), Champagne Charlie (1944) as Bessie Bellwood,The Magic Bow (1946), Passport to Pimlico (1949) with Stanley Holloway, So Long at the Fair (1950), and Tread Softly Stranger (1958). Her television work included three episodes of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents (1953-1954). In 1955 she toured the United Kingdom in the first production of Sandy Wilson's The Buccaneer Betty Warren died in Yeovil, Somerset, England in 1990 aged 83.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fareham, Hampshire, England
Birthday: October 31, 1905
Deathday: December 15, 1990
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Gender: Female
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Passport to Pimlico
Overview: When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Tread Softly Stranger
Overview: Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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Champagne Charlie
Overview: A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-25
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They Met in the Dark
Overview: A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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Dans la vie tout s'arrange
Overview: A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-01
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Secret Mission
Overview: World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-05
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The Farmer's Wife
Overview: Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-20
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Variety Jubilee
Overview: This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-14
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So Long at the Fair
Overview: Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the she gets up in the morning she finds her brother and his room have disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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The Magic Bow
Overview: Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-20
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