Jean Gillie
Also Known As: Jean Mabel Coomber
Biography: Jean Gillie (14 October 1915 – 19 February 1949) was an English film actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Gillie appeared in 20 British and two American films before her career was cut short by her early death. From Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, United Kingdom
Adult: No
Birthday: October 14, 1915
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 19, 1949
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Decoy
Overview: A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-14
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The Macomber Affair
Overview: A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-20
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The Gentle Sex
Overview: During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-23
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The Saint Meets the Tiger
Overview: A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where he confronts crime mastermind 'The Tiger' and his gang as they plan to smuggle gold bullion out of the country.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-08
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Tawny Pipit
Overview: Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-28
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The Girl in the Taxi
Overview: In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Sailors Don't Care
Overview: Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-28
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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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Flight from Folly
Overview: An out of work show girl poses as a nurse and undertakes the job of looking after Clinton Clay, a composer and playboy, jilted by his Russian wife. She stands up to his tantrums and supersedes his wife in his affections.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-21
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Sweet Devil
Overview: Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-12
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This'll Make You Whistle
Overview: A filmed version of the stage musical from London's West End, Jack stars in a frothy tale of a bachelor who finds himself engaged to two girls simultaneously. Elsie Randolph, Jack's long standing stage partner co-stars with him, along with Jean Gillie who was rapidly establishing her career in films as a bubbly comic player. Songs include the title song & "There isn't any limit to my love", both quite popular hits in the UK at the time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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The Middle Watch
Overview: Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed, but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-11
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A Call for Arms!
Overview: "What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-31
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The Live Wire
Overview: Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a dangerous situation involving pirates. The sailor, Bill, initially struggles to remember the location of the ruins, but eventually discovers a lost city and civilization. The professors and sailor then find themselves fighting for their lives against pirates to escape the island alive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-13
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His Majesty & Co.
Overview: John, holidaying in the Ruritanian principality of Poldavia, falls for Princess Sandra. Returning to Britain, he meets not only the princess but her parents. As the King is a wine expert and the Queen a decent cook, they get together to open a restaurant, where John can also sing at table.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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