Mary Brough
Also Known As: Mary Bessie Brough
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: April 14, 1863
Age: 162 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 30, 1934
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The Old Wives' Tale
Overview: A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Passionate Adventure
Overview: A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-01
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The School for Scandal
Overview: An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-12
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Up to the Neck
Overview: 'Comedy concerning a bank clerk who uses his inheritance to fund a serious drams which, ironically, succeeds as a burlesque.' (BFI)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-18
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A Sister to Assist 'Er
Overview: 'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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Sailors Don't Care
Overview: '1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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On Approval
Overview: 'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-26
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Dawn
Overview: A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-01
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A Cuckoo in the Nest
Overview: A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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Turkey Time
Overview: A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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The Brass Bottle
Overview: A Jinn's magic helps a poor architect win a professor's daughter. This film is considered lost.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-30
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Not For Sale
Overview: An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-30
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Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep
Overview: A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss
Overview: A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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His Grace Gives Notice
Overview: A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-01
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Lily of the Alley
Overview: Bill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the security of his job and income prey on his mind and he frets over not being able to provide for Lily. With his worries heightened by the fear that he is about to go blind, he falls into a deep depression .....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-01
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Miriam Rozella
Overview: A silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick
Overview: A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-01
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The Bachelor's Club
Overview: A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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The Alley of Golden Hearts
Overview: A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-01
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Rookery Nook
Overview: A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-11
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Tons of Money
Overview: A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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A Night Like This
Overview: Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-16
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Plunder
Overview: A comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-05
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The Broken Melody
Overview: An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-01
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Thark
Overview: Mrs Todd is aggrieved at finding that the country house she has bought is evidently haunted. Sir Hector Benbow and his nephew, on behalf of the previous owner, set out to demonstrate that there is no ghost.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-31
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: A miser is reformed by visions of past, present and future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-11
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Masks and Faces
Overview: An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-01
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Tons of Money
Overview: Tons of Money is a 1924 British silent comedy film directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Leslie Henson, Flora le Breton and Mary Brough. Aubrey Allington is pursued by creditors and on learning of a family inheritance is persuaded by his wife to fake his own death and return as his own long-lost relative, George Maitland, the rightful claimant. Things get complicated when the real Maitland turns up with another Maitland impersonator, the brother of Aubrey’s butler, Sprules. It is an adaptation of the 1922 play Tons of Money by Will Evans and Arthur Valentine. Both were co-produced with Tom Walls. It was remade as a sound film Tons of Money in 1930
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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The Passing of Mr. Quinn
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-31
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Lights of London
Overview: An heir, framed by his cousin for killing his father, breaks jail and saves his wife from a fire.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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The Will
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Master And Man
Overview: A sacked workman rescues an owner's amnesiac son from a factory fire and reports him dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-02
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