Joan Miller
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Biography: Joan Miller was a Canadian actress who moved to London in 1931. In 1937, she appeared on the newly created BBC television network's first entertainment show, 'Picture Page Girl'. She made frequent appearances on radio, television, and in a few films in the decades after the war, in addition to extensive stage work in the United Kingdom.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Birthday: February 18, 1910
Deathday: August 31, 1988
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Gender: Female
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Yield to the Night
Overview: Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-19
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Criss Cross
Overview: An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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The Birth of Television
Overview: In this feature-length documentary from 1976, Leslie Mitchell and special guests recall the birth of BBC Television forty years before.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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Heavens Above!
Overview: A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-20
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No Trees in the Street
Overview: Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Fire Down Below
Overview: Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-30
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Suspect
Overview: The mysterious Mrs. Smith is entertaining - and one of her guests seems to know her from long before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-03
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Too Young to Love
Overview: A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-08
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The Great Sinner
Overview: A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-29
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The Woman in the Hall
Overview: Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-27
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Transatlantic Trouble
Overview: Max Miller plays a boxer's manager who fails to get fights for his simple-minded boxer. The manager sets up a scene in an American nightclub whereby his fighter gets the chance to knock down the reigning champion. The ruse fails to get the fighter a job but a female acquaintance of the champion takes a fancy to his opponent. The plot develops aboard a ship back to England.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Over-Exposed
Overview: This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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Caged
Overview: A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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