Kay Hammond
Also Known As: Dorothy Katherine Standing, Dorothy Katherine Standing, Lady Clements
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dorothy Katherine Standing (18 February 1909 - 4 May 1980), better known under the stage name Kay Hammond, was an English stage and film actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kay Hammond, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 18, 1909
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Other
Deathday: May 04, 1980
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Call Of The Blood
Overview: A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-12
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Blithe Spirit
Overview: An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-05
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The Trespasser
Overview: A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-11
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Britannia of Billingsgate
Overview: The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Abraham Lincoln
Overview: A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-08
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Her Private Affair
Overview: A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-27
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Money Means Nothing
Overview: British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Double Harness
Overview: After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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Way Down East
Overview: A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Fascination
Overview: Story of a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple in this light-hearted melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-14
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Almost a Divorce
Overview: 'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-21
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A Night in Montmartre
Overview: A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-16
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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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Jeannie
Overview: Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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Carnival
Overview: During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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A Night Like This
Overview: Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-16
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Out of the Blue
Overview: Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-05
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Five Golden Hours
Overview: A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Nine Till Six
Overview: Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-14
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Sally Bishop
Overview: A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-17
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The Third String
Overview: A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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Racetrack
Overview: Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie Curtis, and begins to look upon him as the son he never had. But when Jackie's mother appears, Joe has a hard decision to make.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-25
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Sleeping Car
Overview: A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-06
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The Ten Commandments
Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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Children of Chance
Overview: A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-20
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I Believed in You
Overview: An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-09
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