Jessie Royce Landis
Also Known As: Jessie Medbury, Jessie Royce-Landis
Biography: Jessie Royce Landis (born Jessie Medbury; November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress. Her name is also seen as Jesse Royce-Landis. She remains perhaps best-known for her mother roles in the Hitchcock films To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessie Royce Landis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: November 25, 1896
Deathday: February 02, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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North by Northwest
Overview: Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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To Catch a Thief
Overview: An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-03
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Airport
Overview: Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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Main Street to Broadway
Overview: In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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Boys' Night Out
Overview: Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-21
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The Swan
Overview: Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-26
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My Man Godfrey
Overview: The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Goodbye Again
Overview: Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Overview: A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Critic's Choice
Overview: Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-24
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Bon Voyage!
Overview: The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but bringing his three children will prove to be more troublesome
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-17
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I Married a Woman
Overview: Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-01
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Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Overview: Two high school seniors try to adjust to adult responsibilities when an unexpected pregnancy forces them into marriage.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-16
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The Girl He Left Behind
Overview: A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-26
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Mother Didn't Tell Me
Overview: Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite warnings from a host of other doctor's wives that she will be neglected and lonely, thanks to his career. Based on the novel The Doctor Has Three Faces by Mary Bard and billed as a movie with "all the answers" for new wives, this dated little film follows Jane's struggles to adapt her life to better suit her husband's needs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-03
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A Private's Affair
Overview: Luigi, Jerry, and Mike are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their unit in competition on a national television show. The three guys are up to the challenge, which begins a chain of unusual circumstances that not only have them singing and dancing at the proper times, but also running into a trio of alluring young women.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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Derelict
Overview: Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they both try to out do each other in obtaining what they know their opposite is after. In the end they will need to work together in order to save the day.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-22
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My Foolish Heart
Overview: After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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It Happens Every Spring
Overview: A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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Gidget Goes to Rome
Overview: Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Overview: A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-08
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The Ceremony of Innocence
Overview: Events leading up to Sweyn Forkbeard's invasion of England in AD 1013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-12
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Meet Me Tonight
Overview: Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-09
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