Nanette Newman
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nanette Newman (born 29 May 1934) is an English actress and author. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nanette Newman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
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Birthday: May 29, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Female
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Overview: A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-01
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The Stepford Wives
Overview: Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-12
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International Velvet
Overview: Sarah Brown is sent to England after her parents die in a car crash. There, she lives with her aunt Velvet who introduces Sarah to the world of equestrian competition and gives her the last foal of her own prize horse, The Pie. Under the watchful eye of her aunt and horse trainer Capt. Johnson, Sarah develops into a talented rider who might have a shot at the Olympics.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-19
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Restless Natives
Overview: Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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The Wrong Arm of the Law
Overview: The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-17
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The Wrong Box
Overview: In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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The League of Gentlemen
Overview: Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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Deadfall
Overview: Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-11
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The Whisperers
Overview: Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-18
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Overview: Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city where they may spend the rest of their lives.
Genres: Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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The L-Shaped Room
Overview: Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-20
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House of Mystery
Overview: A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Painted Smile
Overview: Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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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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Of Human Bondage
Overview: Medical student Philip falls in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her constant infidelity, they break up. Mildred quits her job and becomes a prostitute. But Philip is still in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-23
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
Overview: An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-12
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The Raging Moon
Overview: Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-21
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Man at the Top
Overview: Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter Robin. But trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman’s companies and makes a shocking discovery: his predecessor committed suicide...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Peter Sellers: Genius at Work
Overview: An intimate portrait of the comic genius and one of Britain's greatest comic actors, with rare home movie footage of him at play. Peter Sellers' friends recall his obsessions with his leading ladies, superstitions, and a complicated relationship with his devoted mother. Plus, contributors, including Nanette Newman, Audrey Nicholson, Valerie Leon, and Charlie Higson, celebrate his multifaceted brilliance.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Overview: An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful
Overview: Hancock fan Jack Dee presents Tony Hancock: Very Nearly An Armful. Taking its title from celebrated Hancock episode The Blood Donor, this two-hour retrospective features previously unseen scripts, scrapbooks and production files belonging to the lad himself, as well as personal items such as photos and letters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-14
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The Love Ban
Overview: In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Journey Into Darkness
Overview: "Journey Into Darkness" is a television movie which consists of two episodes from the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown 1968)": 'The New People (1968)" (Episode 1.1) and "Paper Dolls (1968)" (Episode 1.16).
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Overview: Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-19
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Overview: The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-25
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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Twice Round the Daffodils
Overview: Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-02
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Faces in the Dark
Overview: A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-22
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Pit of Darkness
Overview: When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by his wife, has been found murdered, and a safe that his firm installed in a large country house, has been cleverly opened, and the contents are missing. So with the help of his wife, he sets out to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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The Rebel
Overview: Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-07
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Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
Overview: The comedy pioneer behind the Goon Show, Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther series is explored in depth in this film, surveying his meteoric rise to fame and troubled personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-09
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Jessie
Overview: A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980 season of BBC Play for Today.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-23
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Listening
Overview: At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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The Stepford Life
Overview: A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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From Roger Moore with Love
Overview: Friends, family and co-stars take part in this revealing and entertaining look at British icon Roger Moore and his rise to global fame. With rare home-movie footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-15
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