Marie Wright
Also Known As: Marie Jeanne Wright
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Woolwich, London, England, UK
Birthday: December 18, 1861
Deathday: May 01, 1949
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Black Coffee
Overview: Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-24
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Murder!
Overview: When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-31
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Love's Old Sweet Song
Overview: 'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-27
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Paddy The Next Best Thing
Overview: A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Overview: Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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Strange Boarders
Overview: Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-01
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Blue Bottles
Overview: As criminals assemble for a convention, a policeman investigates and is abducted. A young woman finds his whistle and blows it. The full forces of the law assemble. The confrontation between order and disorder ensues, with our heroine caught up in it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-05
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Gaslight
Overview: Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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A Cup of Kindness
Overview: A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-07
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Black Eyes
Overview: Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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City of Beautiful Nonsense
Overview: A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father. But only realises after various tribulations she should follow her heart rather than her head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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Victoria the Great
Overview: The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Hail and Farewell
Overview: “A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave. The film shows how some of the men spend this precious time.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-30
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Sixty Glorious Years
Overview: Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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Daydreams
Overview: A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic journey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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Tilly of Bloomsbury
Overview: A young woman falls in love with an aristocrat and tries to convince his parents that she is herself wealthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-29
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Up for the Cup
Overview: A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-14
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This Acting Business
Overview: A British comedy film directed by John Daumery
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-19
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Overview: A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-28
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The Kinsman
Overview: A Cockney poses as his drowned double, who is saved and poses as a chauffeur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-27
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The Cabaret Kid
Overview: A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-01
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Mrs. Thompson
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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