Barbara Everest
Also Known As: Barbara Mary Everest, Barbara Everst
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Southfields, Surrey, England, UK
Birthday: June 18, 1890
Deathday: February 09, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Overview: Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring. Her cinematic contributions produced such classics as "Casablanca," "Gaslight" and "Anastasia." But Ingrid's story goes deeper than the triumphs of her movie career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-06
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Roof
Overview: Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Children of Chance
Overview: In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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The Patient Vanishes
Overview: Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-21
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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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Gaslight
Overview: A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-04
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Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-26
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
Overview: A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-30
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Phantom of the Opera
Overview: Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-12
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The Valley of Decision
Overview: Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-03
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The Uninvited
Overview: A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast. They soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.
Genres: Mystery Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-24
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Madeleine
Overview: The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-16
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Wanted for Murder
Overview: The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-17
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The Damned
Overview: An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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The Fatal Witness
Overview: A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-15
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Testimony
Overview: A farmer's runaway wife returns but is ejected by his mother.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-10
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The Bigamist
Overview: Pamela (Duke) and Herbert Arnott (Royce) have been happily married for five years and have had two children. On the day of their wedding anniversary, Pamela receives a letter from another woman signed Lucy Arnott which states that she is the legal wife of Herbert.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-01
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The Persistent Lovers
Overview: A Duke's daughter loves an author and follows him to France, discovering her father withheld letters.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-10
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The Man Who Finally Died
Overview: Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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The Lodger
Overview: An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-08
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Inquest
Overview: A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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When Thief Meets Thief
Overview: A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Genres: Adventure Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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An Inspector Calls
Overview: An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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The Man Without a Soul
Overview: A scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-01
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The Lost Chord
Overview: 'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-07
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The Man Behind the Mask
Overview: A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-23
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Frieda
Overview: An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-19
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The Warren Case
Overview: Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-30
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Design for Murder
Overview: When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-27
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A Romance of Old Baghdad
Overview: In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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The Umbrella
Overview: Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-26
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Meet Maxwell Archer
Overview: Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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When London Sleeps
Overview: Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-22
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Overview: A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-01
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Lily Christine
Overview: Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-31
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Old Mother Riley
Overview: Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-13
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The Safecracker
Overview: Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
Genres: Crime Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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Passing Shadows
Overview: The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-22
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Dangerous Afternoon
Overview: The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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El Cid
Overview: Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Genres: Action Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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Nurse on Wheels
Overview: Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Overview: The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Fox Farm
Overview: A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-04
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Rotten to the Core
Overview: Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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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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Pride and Prejudice
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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There Goes the Bride
Overview: A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-25
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The Second Mr. Bush
Overview: A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-02
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Upstairs and Downstairs
Overview: On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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Men of Yesterday
Overview: A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-01
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The Lady Clare
Overview: A Lord weds a Lady despite discovering that she is a substituted village child. Based on the poem Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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She Was Only A Village Maiden
Overview: Quota quickie adaptation of the play "Priscilla The Rake".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-23
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