Margaret Wycherly
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Biography: Margaret De Wolfe Wycherly (born Margaret De Wolfe, 26 October 1881 – 6 June 1956) was an English stage and film actress.[2] She spent many years in the United States and is best remembered for her Broadway roles and Hollywood character parts. On screen she played mother to Gary Cooper (Sergeant York) and James Cagney (White Heat).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: October 26, 1881
Deathday: June 06, 1956
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Gender: Female
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Hangmen Also Die!
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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Experiment Perilous
Overview: In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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Random Harvest
Overview: Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-17
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Keeper of the Flame
Overview: Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Johnny Angel
Overview: George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-25
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Midnight
Overview: Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-07
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Crossroads
Overview: A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-23
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The Loves of Carmen
Overview: Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-23
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Something in the Wind
Overview: A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-21
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White Heat
Overview: A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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Sergeant York
Overview: Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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The Yearling
Overview: Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-18
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The Man with a Cloak
Overview: Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-27
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The President's Lady
Overview: The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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Forever Amber
Overview: Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-10
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The Thirteenth Chair
Overview: Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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The Moon Is Down
Overview: The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-14
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Assignment in Brittany
Overview: A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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Victory
Overview: A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-21
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That Man from Tangier
Overview: Mary Ellen travels abroad and ends up marrying a Count while she is intoxicated. The Count disappears and with the aid of her father, George, she tracks down his address in the Casbah, only to discover he was an impostor. The real count is Henri, a nondescript man with a shrewd business sense. Mary Ellen pays him to carry on the masquerade of being her husband so she can get a divorce.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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