Annie Esmond
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Birthday: September 26, 1873
Deathday: January 04, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Pearls Bring Tears
Overview: About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-20
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The Yellow Claw
Overview: A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-13
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Murder in the Family
Overview: After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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The Improper Duchess
Overview: The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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East of Ludgate Hill
Overview: When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bonds are discovered missing.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-23
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Innocent
Overview: An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the city and makes a living as a novelist. Subsequently, she has an affair with a painter named Amadis de Jocelyn, who later dumps her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-01
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Let the People Sing
Overview: An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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Lend Me Your Husband
Overview: A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Stolen Life
Overview: Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-18
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Save a Little Sunshine
Overview: Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-01
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The Man Who Won
Overview: A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-01
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His Lordship Regrets
Overview: The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-31
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Tiptoes
Overview: A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-19
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Service for Ladies
Overview: Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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Abdul the Damned
Overview: In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-05
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The Silent Passenger
Overview: A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Overview: Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-17
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The Good Companions
Overview: Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-28
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Saloon Bar
Overview: A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-02
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Prince of Arcadia
Overview: A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-01
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The Jewel
Overview: A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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Love, Life and Laughter
Overview: Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Directed by George Pearson, the film was considered lost for many years until in March 2014 when a copy was discovered in an old Dutch cinema.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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Alf's Button
Overview: A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-24
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Gert and Daisy's Weekend
Overview: Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-16
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The Sins Ye Do
Overview: A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-30
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The Iron Duke
Overview: The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Overview: "The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-04
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Cottage to Let
Overview: Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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Stamboul
Overview: In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-20
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To Oblige a Lady
Overview: A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-16
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The Officers' Mess
Overview: A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-08
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The Passionate Friends
Overview: An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Outsider
Overview: An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-20
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Men of Tomorrow
Overview: In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-29
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After the Verdict
Overview: A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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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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All That Glitters
Overview: A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Thunder in the City
Overview: A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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A Little Bit of Fluff
Overview: Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-28
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All Hands
Overview: From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girlfriend thoughtlessly blunders away vital wartime secrets. The consequences prove disastrous when his boat next leaves to cross the English Channel.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Overview: Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-01
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A Scandal in Bohemia
Overview: Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-01
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It's a Cop
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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Ebb Tide
Overview: A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-16
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The Recoil
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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The Knave of Diamonds
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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Lucky Loser
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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