Eve Gray
Also Known As: Fanny Evelyn Garrett, Eve Grey
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eve Gray (27 November 1900 – 23 May 1983) was an English film actress. Born Fanny Evelyn Garrett, she was taken to Australia as a child and later had a stage career there. She returned to England in 1924 and within three days of arrival had signed a contract and then made her first appearance on the London stage at Daly's Theatre in Madame Pompadour. A film contract soon followed.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, UK
Birthday: November 27, 1900
Deathday: May 23, 1983
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Jury's Evidence
Overview: 'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Man of the Moment
Overview: Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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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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Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-26
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Villa Falconieri
Overview: A young count rents a villa near Rome to be near a woman he's courting. While there, he strikes up a friendship with a young woman living with a violent husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-20
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The Flaw
Overview: 'Poisoner's victim turns tables.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-02
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One of the Best
Overview: '1820. Officer frames colleague when gambler forces him to steal secrets.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-01
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Murder at Monte Carlo
Overview: A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Moulin Rouge
Overview: An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-21
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The Vicar of Bray
Overview: The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-09
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His Lordship Regrets
Overview: The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-31
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The Last Journey
Overview: Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Why Sailors Leave Home
Overview: When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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Death on the Set
Overview: A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-29
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Department Store
Overview: The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of prison, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-06
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Night Birds
Overview: Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-16
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The Bermondsey Kid
Overview: A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Overview: London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-14
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What’s in a Name?
Overview: “Comedy concerning a clerk pretending to be a European composer who falls in love with a woman who poses as an actress.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-06
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His Lordship Goes to Press
Overview: An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-16
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Poppies of Flanders
Overview: An Earl's reformed son fakes a relapse on learning his sweetheart loves another, and dies saving his life.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Wickham Mystery
Overview: 'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-19
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The Happy Family
Overview: A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Loves of Robert Burns
Overview: Biography of the ploughboy poet.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-03
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Three Witnesses
Overview: At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Twice Branded
Overview: A young business man (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his gaol bird father is determined to save him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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Adventures Inc.
Overview: Based on Agatha Christie's "The Secret Adversary," a young couple looking for adventure become involved in the mystery of a missing woman and an espionage ring.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-02-15
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The Silver Lining
Overview: The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-01
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Smashing Through
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-01
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