Rène Ray
Also Known As: Countess of Midleton, Irene Lilian Brodrick, Irene Lilian Creese
Biography: Rène Ray (born Irene Lilian Creese) was a British stage and screen actress of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She was the third wife of the Earl of Midleton and was also a successful novelist and amateur painter in later life.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: September 22, 1911
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 28, 1993
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The Green Cockatoo
Overview: A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-01
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Bank Holiday
Overview: A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-27
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The Good Die Young
Overview: An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-02
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Overview: Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Overview: After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-24
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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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Tiger Bay
Overview: Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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If Winter Comes
Overview: The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-31
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The Rat
Overview: Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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Women of Twilight
Overview: When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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His Lordship
Overview: A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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Weddings Are Wonderful
Overview: Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-04
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-06
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Please Teacher
Overview: Tommy Deacon learns that a gift bequeathed by his aunt is hidden in her house inside a bust of Napoleon. However, the house has been sold, and is now a girls school and to gain admission Tommy has to pose as the elder brother of Anne, one of the pupils. His arrival in the school results in a variety of escapades, but Tommy resolutely persists in his search for the missing legacy...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Secret Agent
Overview: After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-31
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The Galloping Major
Overview: A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-07
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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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High Treason
Overview: The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
Genres: War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-25
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Here's George
Overview: 'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-20
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The King's Cup
Overview: 'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-02
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Excess Baggage
Overview: 'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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The Changing Year
Overview: 'Couple fall in love as seasons change through year.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-08
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Old Bill and Son
Overview: Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Born Lucky
Overview: A humble girl's rise to fame.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-05
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Farewell Again
Overview: Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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Jennifer Hale
Overview: Quota quickie with Rene Ray as Jennifer Hale, a chorus girl wanted for questioning in the murder of a theatrical producer. Fleeing to Manchester she becomes a taxi dancer under an assumed name, meets architect Ballard Berkley who falls in love with her.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-06
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Housemaster
Overview: Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-31
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Varsity
Overview: A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-01
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Young Woodley
Overview: A schoolboy falls in love with his teacher's young wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-02
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Keepers of Youth
Overview: The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Dance Pretty Lady
Overview: During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-10
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Two White Arms
Overview: A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Beloved Impostor
Overview: A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-20
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Crime Over London
Overview: With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Genres: Adventure Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-21
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Once in a New Moon
Overview: When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Street Song
Overview: Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-16
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The Vicious Circle
Overview: When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder, blackmail, and a fake passport scam.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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The Return of the Frog
Overview: The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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A Call for Arms!
Overview: "What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-31
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John Smith & Son
Overview: Don't come home with the clap. John Smith does, and infects his unsuspecting wife with gonorrhea. Then their baby is born with it, leading to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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Rolling in Money
Overview: An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-20
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