Dorothy Boyd
Also Known As: Dorothy Barbara Boyd
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 14, 1907
Deathday: January 01, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Pearls Bring Tears
Overview: About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-20
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Called Back
Overview: 'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-05
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It Happened in Paris
Overview: A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-30
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The Ace of Spades
Overview: The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-09
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The Love Race
Overview: The Love Race is a delightful musical comedy film based around the fierce rivalry between two motor manufacturers – and the romance that develops between the daughter of one and the son of the other...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Birds of Prey
Overview: At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of them was hanged; the other two were sentenced to long terms, vowing vengeance on Hilton. Unknown to him, the same two men are now among his guests, and are determined to have their revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-18
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Love Lies
Overview: Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. It was based on Stanley Lupino's own hit 1929 stage musical.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-11
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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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Everything Is Rhythm
Overview: Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-11
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Rynox
Overview: Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-04
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The Constant Nymph
Overview: Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-20
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Easy Virtue
Overview: Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-01
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Third Time Lucky
Overview: Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-26
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Too Many Crooks
Overview: A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-01
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The Sport of Kings
Overview: Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-23
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The Girl in the Night
Overview: 'Man shelters from storm in old hour used by diamond smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-21
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The House of Unrest
Overview: A mystery film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Auld Lang Syne
Overview: A British musical film directed by George Pearson
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-31
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Everything in Life
Overview: An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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Toni
Overview: Depressive Toni is diagnosed with idlesness by his doctor who recommends more excitement and danger. Another patient, a celebrated detective who bears a striking resemblance to Toni, is diagnosed with exhaustion and told to rest. The two swap places but Toni's first client turns out to be an exiled princess whose jewels are about to be stolen by a ruthless gang and the amateur detective finds more thrills than he bargained for.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Somehow Good
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-31
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Lonely Road
Overview: Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-23
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Inside the Room
Overview: A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-26
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