Megs Jenkins
Also Known As: Мегс Дженкинс, Muguette Mary "Megs" Jenkins, Muguette Mary Jenkins
Biography: An engineer's daughter, she had first planned on becoming a ballerina, using her original Christian name Muguette, but abandoned those plans by the age of 17 when she realized that her physique was more in keeping with her other first name, Megs. She trained in Liverpool at the School of Dancing and Dramatic Art and then joined the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1933 before moving to London to appear at the Player's Theatre four years later. During the 1950's, Megs was busy acting on stage and had considerable critical success in two plays by Emlyn Williams, 'Light of Heart' (1940) and 'The Wind of Heaven' (1945). Against character, she also played the vicious, unstable Alma Winemiller in 'Summer and Smoke' (1951) by Tennessee Williams. In 1956, she was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the stoic wife of a longshoreman harbouring incestuous feelings for his niece in 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller. The previous year, she had made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's 'A Day by the Sea' as a supportive governess to an alcoholic physician.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Birthday: April 21, 1917
Deathday: October 05, 1998
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Murder Most Foul
Overview: A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Overview: A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-03
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Friends and Neighbours
Overview: During the Cold War, a British family struggles to overcome cultural differences as they welcome two Russian social workers into their home for a visit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-11
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Indiscreet
Overview: Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. She loses her concentration for a moment as she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-16
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Asylum
Overview: A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-17
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Green for Danger
Overview: In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-07
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Tiger Bay
Overview: In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Trouble in Store
Overview: Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-14
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The Innocents
Overview: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Oliver!
Overview: Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Overview: Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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The Monkey's Paw
Overview: A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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The History of Mr. Polly
Overview: Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-08
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Personal Affair
Overview: A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-20
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Painted Boats
Overview: In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-01
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The Gay Dog
Overview: Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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John and Julie
Overview: The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-26
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Out of the Clouds
Overview: A day following workers at an airport
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-15
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The Cruel Sea
Overview: At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-24
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Overview: The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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Jet Storm
Overview: Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-16
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The Amorous Milkman
Overview: Davey's milk delivery job offers him scant excitement. But when a few of the lonely housewives, including the alluring Rita, want him to deliver a little more than just pints of milk, Davey launches into a series of sexcapades that quickly get out of hand. Soon, he finds himself engaged to two women, dodging a local gangster who doesn't appreciate his "service" and fighting false rape charges in court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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David Copperfield
Overview: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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The Ten Year Plan
Overview: The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-02
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Poison Pen
Overview: The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-03
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Rough Shoot
Overview: An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-30
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The Passionate Stranger
Overview: Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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Millions Like Us
Overview: When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-01
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Weekend Guest
Overview: Sir Lionel Hibury is visiting an old friend in Rome, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Sir Lionel is not pleased when daughter, Sheila, become romantically involved with a wealthy young man staying in the flat above them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-26
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Where the Buffalo Roam
Overview: Poor Willy’s mind has been warped by too many Westerns. He sees gunfighters on every corner, even though he’s in 1960s Swansea. Some think Billy’s simple. His Auntie just thinks he’s creative. But he’s on a dark path as his vivid imaginings grow wilder, and the world in his head comes roaring out into reality.
Genres: TV Movie Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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If You Could See What I Can See
Overview: Trevor returns to his old home town to see his estranged wife and son, but fails to see why she is afraid of him.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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Macbeth
Overview: Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-16
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No Place for Jennifer
Overview: A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-17
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29 Acacia Avenue
Overview: The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-01
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The Turn of the Screw
Overview: An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-15
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The Man in the Sky
Overview: The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-24
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Secret People
Overview: This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-05
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It's in the Bag
Overview: Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-07
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The Green Helmet
Overview: After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Joseph Bartell. He wants Greg to test out his latest invention, a heat resistant car tire, in actual racing competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-20
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Heart to Heart
Overview: A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-06
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Cop-Out
Overview: John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-23
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Life for Ruth
Overview: John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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The Barber of Stamford Hill
Overview: Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that may change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-10
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The Story of Esther Costello
Overview: Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-06
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A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
Overview: Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), hoping to invite her to the Scarecrow Ball, but before he can find her he runs into his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor), herself heading for a spell in panto. Then, before he gets much further, our multi-headed hero gets sidetracked again when he runs into angry Scots scarecrow Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) and his anti-Christmas brigade. Will Worzel ever get to enjoy the season with his beloved?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-27
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The Lamp Still Burns
Overview: A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-29
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The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Overview: A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-25
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The Daedalus Equations
Overview: Hans Daedalus has defected from East Germany to the West. Is it possible that his opacity equations live on after his death?
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-20
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White Corridors
Overview: White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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Ivanhoe
Overview: Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-31
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The Brothers
Overview: An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-07
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The Monkey's Paw
Overview: An old army sergeant, back in England after long service in India, shows some old friends a strange possession he's acquired - a monkey's paw which can make wishes come true.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-10
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