Tamara Desni
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Biography: From Wikipedia Tamara Desni (22 October 1913 – 7 February 2008) was a German-born British actress. Born as Tamara Brodsky, the daughter of actress Xenia Desni, Tamara Desni was born in Berlin. Her mother was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire, but emigrated to Germany sometime before the Russian Revolution. She became a star of German cinema during the silent era. She studied ballet as a child and appeared on stage and in several German films. She married a dentist while a teenager, although they divorced before Desni landed her first London acting role in 1931 in the musical White Horse Inn. She followed this up with another leading role in the musical Casanova, featuring music by Johann Strauss, Jr. Desni's film career took off in 1933 with Falling for You, and continued through 1950. Other film credits include Dick Barton at Bay, The Torso Murder Mystery, Fire Over England and Hell's Cargo. Desni's health began declining while in her late eighties. She died, a widow, on February 7, 2008 in Valence d'Agen, France. She was 94.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: October 22, 1913
Deathday: February 07, 2008
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Gender: Female
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Fire Over England
Overview: The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Marriage with Limited Liability
Overview: Though "blessed" with a complex title, which translates as Marriage with Limited Liability, this German comedy was adapted from the more simply titled stage play Causa Kaiser. Composer Georg Kaiser is unable to secure a divorce from his wife, so he "lives in sin" with his singer-sweetheart Causa. The girl's wealthy uncle dies, leaving her millions -- provided she is married to Georg Kaiser. Hoping to take advantage of a legal loophole, Georg seeks out another man named George Kaiser, intending to marry him off to Causa so that she can collect her legacy. Georg Kaiser # 2 is a middle-aged naif who can't understand why his new bride is so cold to him. When he finds out he's been duped by Kaiser #1, Kaiser #2 finds solace in the arms of another woman closer to his own age, which somehow leads to a happy ending for all concerned.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Dick Barton at Bay
Overview: David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
Genres: Adventure Crime Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-02
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The Squeaker
Overview: London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Genres: Romance Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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Forbidden Territory
Overview: Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie Perrovna is a singer who is in love with the imprisoned son and she provides the searchers with the information as to where the missing son is being held. They all go there and help Michael escape. But is their escape vehicle---a flat wagon pulled by three horses--- fast enough and sturdy enough through the snow to beat the Commmisar and his troops to the Rumanian border
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-19
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Falling for You
Overview: In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-15
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Jack Ahoy
Overview: A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Send for Paul Temple
Overview: Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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Traitor Spy
Overview: A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Flight from Folly
Overview: An out of work show girl poses as a nurse and undertakes the job of looking after Clinton Clay, a composer and playboy, jilted by his Russian wife. She stands up to his tantrums and supersedes his wife in his affections.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-21
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Blue Smoke
Overview: British sports film directed by Ralph Ince.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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Dark World
Overview: British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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His Brother’s Keeper
Overview: “A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-27
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In the Employ of the Secret Service
Overview: During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-13
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The Hills of Donegal
Overview: Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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Love in Exile
Overview: When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In reality, he is stepping down so avaricious businessmen can crown their own man king. The deposed monarch spends his exile on the Riviera, while the woman, filled with guilt because he stepped down for her, lives in Holland. Interestingly enough, Edward VIII the King of England abdicated for the love of American woman Wallis Simpson a few weeks after this British film was released.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-09
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McGlusky the Sea Rover
Overview: Comedy action starring Irish boxing champion Jack Doyle
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-01
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