Madeleine Sherwood
Also Known As: Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood, Madeline Thornton-Sherwood, Madeleine Louise Hélène Thornton
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: November 13, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 23, 2016
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Overview: An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-29
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
Overview: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-22
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Playing Cat and Mouse
Overview: The Making of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Donald Spoto and Drew Casper.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-02
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Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
Overview: The making of the film with Drew Casper.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-02
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Teachers
Overview: A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Overview: Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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The Changeling
Overview: After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Parrish
Overview: Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-04
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Wicked, Wicked
Overview: Simmons, the manager of a seaside hotel in California, has a problem: Guests are turning up dead, and Sgt. Ramsey, the hotel's detective, has no information as to the identity of the murderer. The only thing anybody knows is that the killer wears a strange mask and has a fondness for blonde women. As Ramsey tracks down a list of suspects that includes the hotel handyman, Lisa, the hotel's lounge singer, finds herself in danger.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-13
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Haunted by Her Past
Overview: While staying at an inn in a colonial-recreation village for her anniversary, a young woman becomes possessed by her murderous ancestor through an antique mirror and compelled to murder her husband.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-05
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Hurry Sundown
Overview: A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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An Unremarkable Life
Overview: The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic feelings for a local mechanic.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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Broken Vows
Overview: When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he becomes embroiled in a plot which ultimately shakes his faith to its very foundation. Intrigued by the dying man's mention of "Nim," and fascinated by the man's saintly demeanor, Father Joseph's curiosity is redoubled when a beautiful young woman enters his church to question the young priest about the deceased man. Father Joseph and the woman, whom he discovers to be the "Nim" in question, embark upon an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the man's death.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-28
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The Electric Grandmother
Overview: To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together, give a recording for an offer for an electric grandmother. They go to a bizarre factory, where they customize their new grandmother, and within a short time, she arrives. The android is equipped with everything needed as a parent and the boys are charmed. The daughter, however, still misses her mother and she bears no welcome for this interloper.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-17
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The Man Hunter
Overview: A professional hunter is brought in to track a bank robbery suspect through a Louisiana swamp, and winds up getting romantically involved with the suspect's wife.
Genres: Drama Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Pendulum
Overview: On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-14
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Resurrection
Overview: The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Jane
Overview: Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadway.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-02
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The Ottawa Valley
Overview: Based on the Alice Munro short story, in which the narrator tries in vain to write a portrait of her mother’s family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Baby Doll
Overview: Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-29
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In the Cool of the Day
Overview: After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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Silence Like Glass
Overview: True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-07-06
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Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
Overview: Director Elia Kazan and playwright Arthur Miller were once best friends and professional colleagues, to most that knew them then in both capacities as soul mates. Their politics were similar which was reflected in their work. Kazan was a Communist Party member for a few years in the mid-1930's, but Miller never officially joined the party ranks. Their relationship changed in the early 1950's when Kazan was subpoenaed to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee where he named names of Communist Party members past and present.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-03
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They Only Come Out at Night
Overview: Jack Warden plays real-life Los Angeles detective John St. John in this pilot for the Jigsaw John television series. He and his Native American partner track a pervert serial killer of elderly women.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-29
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