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Barry Jones (actor)
Barry Cuthbert Jones (6 March 1893 – 1 May 1981) was an actor seen in British and American films, on American television and on the stage. Biography Jones was born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands in 1893. He started his acting career on the British stage in 1921. He performed in his first film, Shaw's '' Arms and the Man'' as Bluntschli in 1932. In 1935, he originated the role of King Stephen in Ivor Novello's stage musical, ''Glamorous Night''. A character actor in many films, often portraying nobility, he had a starring role in the film ''Seven Days to Noon''. He also played Mr. Lundie in the 1954 film adaptation of ''Brigadoon'', and Polonius in the 1953 U.S. television adaptation of ''Hamlet''. He appeared as Claudius in ''Demetrius and the Gladiators'', a sequel to 20th Century Fox's biblical epic, ''The Robe''. This character was Caligula's uncle and became the new Emperor after Caligula's death. Jones died at the age of eighty-eight in Guernsey. Selected filmograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glass Slipper (film)
''The Glass Slipper'' (1955) is an American musical film adaptation of ''Cinderella'', made by MGM, directed by Charles Walters and produced by Edwin H. Knopf from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch. The music score is by Bronislau Kaper, the cinematography by Arthur E. Arling, the art direction by Daniel B. Cathcart and Cedric Gibbons and costume design by Walter Plunkett and Helen Rose. The film stars Leslie Caron as Cinderella, and Michael Wilding as the Prince, with Keenan Wynn, Estelle Winwood, Elsa Lanchester, Barry Jones, Lurene Tuttle, Liliane Montevecchi and Walter Pidgeon as Narrator. The film received its network television premiere divided into two episodes on the 1967 ABC-TV anthology series ''Off To See The Wizard''. Plot Ella is a lonely and misunderstood young woman living in a European duchy and is a lowly servant to her stepmother, the Widow Sonder, and stepsisters, Birdena and Serafina. She is shunned by the townspeople because of her anti-social behavior and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder In The Family
''Murder in the Family'' is a 1938 British crime film directed by Albert Parker and starring Barry Jones, Jessica Tandy and Evelyn Ankers. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carmen Dillon. It was adapted from a 1936 novel of the same title by James Ronald.Chibnall p.296 Plot summary After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder. Cast * Barry Jones as Stephen Osborne * Jessica Tandy as Ann Osborne * Evelyn Ankers as Dorothy Osborne * Donald Gray as Ted Fleming * Jessie Winter as Edith Osborne * David Markham as Michael Osborne * Glynis Johns as Marjorie Osborne * Roddy McDowall as Peter Osborne * Annie Esmond as Aunt Octavia * Rani Waller as Miss Mimms * Charles Childerstone Charles Childerstone (3 July 1872 – 29 May 1947) was an English operatic tenor and actor who after a career on the stage including a period with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1896 to 1903 later had a career on the music halls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appointment With Venus (film)
''Appointment with Venus'' is a 1951 film adaptation of the 1951 Jerrard Tickell novel of the same name. It was directed by Ralph Thomas, produced by Betty E. Box and its screenplay was written by the novelist Nicholas Phipps. The film was based on the evacuation of Alderney cattle from the Channel Island during World War II. In the United States the film was re-titled ''Island Rescue''. Plot In 1940, after the fall of France, the fictitious Channel Island of Armorel is occupied by a small garrison of German troops under the benign command of Hauptmann Weiss. The hereditary ruler, the Suzerain, is away in the British Army, leaving the Provost in charge. Back in London, the Ministry of Agriculture realise that during the evacuation of the island, Venus, a prize pedigree pregnant cow, was left behind. They petition the War Office to do something urgently due to the value of the cow's bloodline, and Major Morland is assigned the task of rescuing Venus. The Suzerain's sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Corridors
''White Corridors'' is a 1951 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Googie Withers, Godfrey Tearle, James Donald and Petula Clark. It is based on a novel by Helen Ashton. The film is set in a hospital shortly after the establishment of the National Health Service. Premise The day-to-day life of the staff and patients at a city hospital. Cast * Googie Withers as Dr. Sophie Dean * James Donald as Dr. Neil Marriner * Godfrey Tearle as Mr. Groom, Sr. * Petula Clark as Joan Shepherd * Jean Anderson as Sister Gater * Timothy Bateson as Dr. Cook * Fabia Drake as Miss Farmer * Henry Edwards (actor), Henry Edwards as Phillip Brewster * Gerard Heinz as Dr. Macuzek * Megs Jenkins as Mrs. Briggs * Barry Jones (actor), Barry Jones as Dr. Shoesmith * Avice Landone as Sister Jenkins * Bernard Lee as Burgess * Moira Lister as Dolly Clark * Dandy Nichols as Char * Basil Radford as Retired Civil Servant * Bruce Seton as Policeman * Mary Hinton (actress), Mary Hinton as Matron * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clouded Yellow
''The Clouded Yellow'' is a 1950 British mystery film directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty E. Box for Carillon Films. A dismissed secret service agent falls in love with a disturbed young woman who is wrongly accused of murder and the two go on the run, pursued by the police, the secret service, and the real murderer. Plot A successful member of the UK Secret Intelligence Service during the Second World War, ex-Major David Somers is dismissed following the failure of a mission. The only work he can find is cataloguing butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. (The "clouded yellow" is a rare species of butterfly.) Somers and Sophie Malraux, Jess's niece, become attracted to each other. After the murder of Hick, a local gamekeeper and Jess's lover, suspicion wrongly falls on Sophie. She is considered mentally fragile because of the apparent suicide of her parents when she was six, the memory of which she has suppressed. Somers helps Sophie to evade a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mudlark
''The Mudlark'' is a 1950 film made in Britain by 20th Century Fox. It is a fictional account of how Queen Victoria was eventually brought out of her mourning for her dead husband, Prince Albert. It was directed by Jean Negulesco, written and produced by Nunnally Johnson and based on the 1949 novel of the same name by American artillery sergeant and San Francisco newspaperman Theodore Bonnet (1908–1983). It stars Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness and Andrew Ray. "Mudlarks" were street children who survived by scavenging and selling what they could find on the banks of the River Thames. The film was a hit in Britain and made an overnight star of Andrew Ray, who played the title character. Plot A young street urchin named Wheeler, half-starved, homeless and an orphan, finds a cameo containing the likeness of Queen Victoria. Not recognising her, he is told that she is the "mother of all England". Taking the remark literally, he journeys to Windsor Castle to see her. He manages to snea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine (1950 Film)
''Madeleine'' is a 1950 British film noir directed by David Lean, based on a true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier. The trial was much publicised in the newspapers of the day and labelled "the trial of the century". Lean's adaptation of the story starred his wife, Ann Todd, with Ivan Desny as her character's French lover. Norman Wooland played the respectable suitor and Leslie Banks the authoritarian father, both of whom are unaware of Madeleine's secret life. Lean made the film primarily as a "wedding present" to Todd, who had previously played the role onstage. He was never satisfied with the film and cited it as his least favourite feature-length movie. Plot The film begins at 7 Blythswood Square, Glasgow, in a contemporary setting, then jumps back to the past in the early 19th century. The film dramatises events leading up to the 1857 trial of an otherwise-respectable yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelve O'Clock High
''Twelve O'Clock High'' is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force, who flew daylight bombing missions against Germany and Occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The climax includes a thinly disguised version of the Black Thursday strike against Schweinfurt. The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr., with uncredited contributions by director Henry King, from the 1948 novel ''12 O'Clock High'' by Bartlett and Lay. It stars Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, and Dean Jagger. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and won two: Dean Jagger for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and Thomas T. Moulton for Best Sound Recording."The 22nd Academy Awards (1950) Nominees and Winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bad Lord Byron
''The Bad Lord Byron'' is a 1949 British historical drama film about the life of Lord Byron. It was directed by David MacDonald and starred Dennis Price as Byron with Mai Zetterling, Linden Travers and Joan Greenwood. Plot The film sees life from the perspective of Lord Byron, seriously wounded in Greece where he is fighting for Greek independence. From his deathbed, Byron remembers his life and many loves, imagining that he's pleading his case before a celestial court. The first witness called is Lady Caroline Lamb who recalls their relationship. She met Byron after a ball and they began an affair. He writes the poem ''She Walks in Beauty'' about another woman, causing Lady Caroline to stab herself with a broken glass. He breaks things off and Lady Caroline is sent to Ireland. The next witness is Annabella Milbanke who talks about her romance and marriage to Byron, including the birth of their child. The third witness is Augusta Leigh, with whom Annabelle thought Byron was h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Dangerous Age
''That Dangerous Age'' is a 1949 British romance film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey and Peggy Cummins. It was adapted from the play ''Autumn'' by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surguchev. The film was released under the alternative title of ''If This Be Sin'' in the United States. It was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location in London and Capri. The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew. Plot Sir Brian Brooke, a famous attorney, collapses while acting as defense counsel in a high-profile murder trial. Doctor Thorvald informs his (second) wife Cathy that Brian needs to rest for six months or he will die; Brian is also temporarily blind. They and Brian's daughter Monica relax in Italy. They receive an anonymous letter accusing Cathy of carrying on an affair with Brian's junior partner, Michael Barcleigh. Brian's lawyer instincts makes him believe it, until Cathy reveals that Michael has confided to her that he is in lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uneasy Terms
''Uneasy Terms'' is a 1948 British crime thriller film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Michael Rennie, Moira Lister and Faith Brook. It is based on the 1946 novel of the same name by Peter Cheyney. Premise Slim Callaghan is a private eye whose client, Colonel Stenhurst, is murdered, leaving behind a trail of suspects. Viola, the eldest of the Colonel's three stepdaughters, is the prime suspect, but after wading through clues and romance, Callaghan corners the real culprit. Cast * Michael Rennie as Slim Callaghan * Moira Lister as Corinne Alardyse * Faith Brook as Viola Alardyse * Joy Shelton as Effie * Patricia Goddard as Patricia Alardyse * Barry Jones as Inspector Gringall * Marie Ney as Honoria Wymering * Paul Carpenter as Windy Nicholls * Nigel Patrick as Lucien Donnelly * Sydney Tafler Sydney Tafler (31 July 1916 – 8 November 1979) was an English actor who after having started his career on stage, was best remembered for numerous appearances in f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Calendar (1948 Film)
''The Calendar'' is a black and white 1948 British drama film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Greta Gynt, John McCallum, Raymond Lovell and Leslie Dwyer. It is based on the 1929 play '' The Calendar'' and subsequent novel by Edgar Wallace. A previous version had been released in 1931. Plot Garry is a racehorse owner. After he loses money at the races, his fiancee Wenda jilts him and marries Lord Willis Panniford, whose sister Molly trains Garry's horses. Whilst drowning his sorrows, Garry becomes involved in a big-race scandal. The plot is to steal his own prize horse before a race, therefore increasing the odds in another big upcoming race, ''the Ascot Gold Cup''. Stewards run an inquiry into the running of Garry's horse. Wenda is called as a witness. She denies that Garry's first telegram telling her not to back his horse was cancelled out by another message from him, which was sent before the race. Molly knows that Garry stopped the dishonest running plan. She ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |