Nancy Price
Also Known As: Нэнси Прайс, Lilian Nancy Bache Price
Biography: Nancy Price, CBE, was an English actress on stage and screen, author and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. Her stage carrier began in 1900 and ended in 1950. She played her first film role in 1916 and the last in 1952, all in all she appeared in 29 films. Her first TV role was in 1938, during British TV's brief pre-war period, and she then appeared in four TV plays in 1950 and 1951.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kinver, Staffordshire, England
Birthday: February 02, 1880
Deathday: March 31, 1970
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Gender: Female
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The Stars Look Down
Overview: Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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The Speckled Band
Overview: After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
Genres: Romance Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-05
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Secret Mission
Overview: World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-05
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I Know Where I'm Going!
Overview: Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-16
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Overview: The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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Huntingtower
Overview: Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-01
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The Naked Heart
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family farm. Robert Gagnon, a villager and childhood friend, loves her secretly but Maria is wooed by Lorenzo Surprenant, a man who has fled his home town to escape the police. The one she is really in love with is François Paradis, a handsome trapper. The latter promises to marry her in the spring, as soon as he is back from the Far North. Robert, who is aware of how miserable Maria is, writes a letter to François , asking him to come back at once. Unfortunately, the young trapper is buried under the snow during a storm. As for Lorenzo he gets gunned down by the police. Finally understanding that Robert has sacrificed himself out of love for her, Maria accepts to become his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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The Three Weird Sisters
Overview: Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-26
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His House in Order
Overview: A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-24
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Carnival
Overview: A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the bright lights of the big city and for the arms of her artist lover. Unfortunately, her husband is all too aware of this.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-02
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Love, Life and Laughter
Overview: Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Directed by George Pearson, the film was considered lost for many years until in March 2014 when a copy was discovered in an old Dutch cinema.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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The Master of Bankdam
Overview: Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Overview: In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-01
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Dead Man's Shoes
Overview: An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-05
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Such Is the Law
Overview: A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-14
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The American Prisoner
Overview: Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-28
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The Loves of Robert Burns
Overview: Biography of the ploughboy poet.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-03
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Mandy
Overview: London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-29
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Madonna of the Seven Moons
Overview: In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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The Woman Who Obeyed
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-01
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Sure-Fire Flint
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-25
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Belphegor the Mountebank
Overview: A rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-01
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