Helen Hayes
Also Known As: Helen Hayes Brown, Хелен Хейс Макартур, Хелен Хейс, Helen Hayes MacArthur
Biography: Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hayes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Birthday: October 09, 1900
Deathday: March 17, 1993
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Gender: Female
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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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Herbie Rides Again
Overview: The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-12
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Murder Is Easy
Overview: American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she is murdered after disembarking the train, Williams vows to pursue the case himself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-02
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Victory at Entebbe
Overview: The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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A Caribbean Mystery
Overview: Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-22
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Murder with Mirrors
Overview: When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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A Farewell to Arms
Overview: A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-08
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The Snoop Sisters
Overview: A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-18
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Overview: Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Family Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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Candleshoe
Overview: When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal the prize. By convincing a girl named Casey to impersonate the estate owner's long-lost granddaughter, Harry hopes to uncover the treasure's location. But when Casey has a change of heart, she must follow the clues and find the treasure, in order to save Candleshoe and stop Harry before it is too late.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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Anastasia
Overview: Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-13
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Third Man on the Mountain
Overview: Third Man on the Mountain is an American film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt Disney Productions, released in 1959. It is adapted from a novel by James Ramsey Ullman, entitled "Banner In The Sky". In the middle of the 19th century in Switzerland, a famous British mountaineer, Captain John Winter, wanted to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A young man from the village, Rudi Matt, whose father died fifteen years earlier during an attempt to climb the Citadel, is determined to accompany him, with the help of his uncle. Winter also manages to hire a guide from a neighboring village and competitor, Emil Saxo. The roped party of four men then begins the ascent of the still untouched summit.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-10
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My Son John
Overview: In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-08
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Another Language
Overview: A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
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Arrowsmith
Overview: A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-07
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Overview: Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-23
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Night Flight
Overview: Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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Bill Cosby: Walking Free
Overview: Follow the twists and turns of his life, legacy and legal battle as America's former favourite 'Dad' faces allegations from 60 women, spanning as far back as the '60s.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-04
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The White Sister
Overview: An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
Overview: The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Hopper's Silence
Overview: Documentary about painter Edward Hopper and his wife.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-05
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The Son-Daughter
Overview: Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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What Every Woman Knows
Overview: Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-18
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The Challenge of Ideas
Overview: Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc, pointing out the need for vigilance and action to protect democracy in the U.S. and abroad.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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A Family Upside Down
Overview: An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-08
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Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Overview: Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-09
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The Dancing Town
Overview: Young kids face off in a dance competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-26
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Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Harvey
Overview: Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plans to marry off her daughter. However, when she decides to put Elwood in a mental institution, a mix-up occurs, and she finds herself committed instead. It's now up to Elwood and "Harvey" to straighten out the mess.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Overview: Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding skills that first brought him bit parts in movies. And he never lost his love of the great American outdoors. Though he rarely played a villain and was an adept comedian, Cooper is best remembered for his strong, silent heroes. With his lanky country boy looks and shy hesitancy he created a unique screen presence, though his real life was one of sophisticated elegance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-17
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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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A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
Overview: A closed-circuit television special produced to raise funds for the relief agency CARE telecast live from the Adelphi Theatre in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-28
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The Bat
Overview: A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities supposedly hidden in the rambling mansion owned by spinster Cornelia Van Gorde.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-29
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Overview: This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-31
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Hollywood Goes to Town
Overview: This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-07
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Overview: A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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The Ten-Year Lunch
Overview: The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-28
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Crime Without Passion
Overview: Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-30
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The Weavers of Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-01
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Riders of the Range
Overview: A growing number of cattle raids prompts the cattlemen to call on their cattlemen's association president Martin Lethbridge to investigate. Sheep Ranchers are suspected, who led by Gregg Randall blame the cattlemen for increased casualties among the sheep herds. Letherbridge falls in love with Randall's daughter, Dolly, and eventually exposes Blunt Vanier as the cause of the conflict.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-15
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