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Helen Goss
Helen Goss (15 October 19031985) was a British stage, television and film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite .... She was also a drama teacher and for a period was responsible for admissions to the Rank Charm School. Filmography References External links * 1903 births 1985 deaths British stage actresses British film actresses British television actresses Actresses from London 20th-century British actresses 20th-century English women 20th-century English people {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spotlight (Casting Services Company)
Spotlight is the largest Casting (performing arts), casting resource in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1927, it has over 70,000 actors, actresses, presenters, dancers, and stunt performers in its database. It is used by thousands of production companies, broadcasters, advertisement agencies, and casting directors. Clients range from large organisations such as the BBC, ITV (TV network), ITV, and Channel 4 to smaller production companies. It publishes its "Contacts" handbook both in hard copy and as an e-book. It includes listings for over 5,000 companies, services, and individuals across all branches of film, television, stage, video games, and voice acting. Spotlight is one of the most successful companies in casting, generating over £10 million per year. Although established since 1927, it only registered as a limited company in 2010. It does not disclose its profits publicly. References External links Spotlight website Directories 1927 establishments in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mark Of Cain (1947 Film)
''The Mark of Cain'' is a 1947 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Eric Portman, Sally Gray, Patrick Holt and Dermot Walsh. The film is based on the 1943 novel '' Airing in a Closed Carriage'' by Marjorie Bowen, which in turn was based on the true life murder trial of Florence Maybrick. It was made at Denham Studios with sets designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky. Plot English industrialist Richard Howard visits Bordeaux, France to buy cotton for his mills from Sarah Bonheur, He becomes enamoured by Sarah and spends much of his business trip sight-seeing. When his younger brother, John arrives to close the deal, he also is attracted to Sarah, and after a whirlwind courtship, marries her. When living a lonely existence in John's grand house in Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pickwick Papers (1952 Film)
''The Pickwick Papers'' is a 1952 British historical comedy drama film written and directed by Noel Langley and starring James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick and Joyce Grenfell. It is based on the Charles Dickens’s 1837 novel of the same name. It was made by Renown Pictures who had successfully released another Dickens adapation '' Scrooge'' the previous year. The film was made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames. Shot in black-and-white, the film's sets were designed by the art director Frederick Pusey with costumes by Beatrice Dawson. It premiered at the Gaumont Cinema at Haymarket in London on 14 November 1952. In 1954, the Soviet Union paid £10,000 for the distribution rights, and it became the first British film to be shown in the Soviet Union after the Second World War, premiering on 29 July 1954 in a number of cities with a dubbed soundtrack. The film was followed a month later by a Russian reprint of Dickens' book, in 150,000 copies. Cast * Jame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Planter's Wife (1952 Film)
''The Planter's Wife '' is a 1952 British war drama film directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins and Anthony Steel. It is set against the backdrop of the Malayan Emergency and focuses on a rubber planter and his neighbours who are fending off a campaign of sustained attacks by Communist insurgents while also struggling to save their marriage. The film was retitled ''Outpost in Malaya'' in the United States. Plot During the Malayan Emergency, communist terrorists attack an isolated rubber plantation, killing the manager. This concerns neighbouring planter Jim Frazer, who is struggling to produce rubber under constant attacks. Jim is having domestic difficulties with his American wife Liz, who is planning to take their son Mike to England and not return. British Inspector Hugh Dobson urges Liz to come clean with Jim. Jim gives a lift to Wan Li, a Chinese man, the uncle of a little servant girl injured in the attack on Jim's neighbour. After Wan Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something Money Can't Buy
''Something Money Can't Buy'' is a 1952 British comedy drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Patricia Roc, Anthony Steel and Moira Lister. The film was made with backing from the NFFC as part of its British Film-Makers project with the Rank Organisation. The film was distributed by Rank's General Film Distributors. In America it was released by Universal Pictures in 1953. Production The film was shot at Pinewood Studios near London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky. The film was a rare comedy role for Steel, who made it immediately prior to shooting '' The Planter's Wife'' (1952). It involved Roc returning to London after two years in Paris, where she lived with her French husband. She and Steel had an affair during the making of the movie which resulted in Roc having Steel's baby. It was the only comedy Steel made while a star. Plot Harry and Anne Wilding return to civilian life after service in the army. They have trouble readjustin ... [...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] |
Honeymoon Deferred (1951 Film)
''Honeymoon Deferred '' (Italian: ''Due mogli sono troppe'') is a 1951 British-Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Sally Ann Howes, Griffith Jones, and Kieron Moore.Alan Burton and Steve Chibnall. ''Historical Dictionary of British Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2013. p.239 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gianni Polidori and Ivan King. It was partly shot on location in Italy, and was one of two co-productions in Italy that producer Joseph Janni oversaw during the period, along with the melodrama '' The Glass Mountain'' (1949). Separate English- and Italian-language versions were released. Synopsis A British couple honeymooning in Italy plan to visit Rome and take in the opera and the various historical sights of the city. However, after taking the wrong train, they end up in the village where the husband, David, had fought and taken shelter as a British Army officer during the Second World War. Regarded as a hero by the villagers, it soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheer The Brave
''Cheer the Brave'' is a 1951 British comedy film directed by Kenneth Hume and starring Elsie Randolph, Jack McNaughton and Geoffrey Keen. It was made at Southall Studios as a second feature.Chibnall & MacFarlane p.127 A mild-mannered man gets married, but soon finds his new wife to be a domineering tyrant. After discovering her previous husband is not really dead, he manages to escape from her clutches. Cast * Elsie Randolph as Doris Wilson * Jack McNaughton as Bill Potter * Geoffrey Keen as Wilson * Marie Ault as Mother-in-Law * Vida Hope * Mavis Villiers * Eileen Way * Gordon Mulholland * Sam Kydd * Rose Howlett * Helen Goss * Michael Ward * John Bull * Elizabeth Saunders * Jennifer Duncan * Molly Weir Mary Weir (17 March 1910 – 28 November 2004), known as Molly Weir, was a Scottish actress. She appeared as the character Hazel the McWitch in the BBC TV series '' Rentaghost''. She was the sister of naturalist and broadcaster Tom Weir. B ... Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackmailed (1951 Film)
''Blackmailed'' is a 1951 British drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton and Robert Flemyng. It was adapted from a novel by Elizabeth Myers. Cast * Mai Zetterling as Carol Edwards * Dirk Bogarde as Stephen Mundy * Fay Compton as Mrs Christopher * Robert Flemyng as Doctor Freeman * Michael Gough as Maurice Edwards * James Robertson Justice as Mr Sine * Joan Rice as Alma * Harold Huth as Hugh Sainsbury * Wilfrid Hyde-White as Lord Dearsley * Nora Gordon as Housekeeper * Cyril Chamberlain as Police Constable * Charles Saynor as Police Constable * Derrick Penley as Patrick * Peter Owen as Chief Printer * Dennis Brian as Sub-Editor * Arthur Hambling as Inspector Canin * Shirley Wright as Mary * Bruce Seton as Superintendent Crowe * Marianne Stone as Maggie * Helen Goss as Matron * Constance Smith as Nurse Anne * Edie Martin as Mrs. Porritt * John Horsley as Maggie's Doctor * Ballard Berkeley Ballard Blascheck (6 August 1904 ... [...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 Woman In Question
''The Woman in Question'' (released in the United States as ''Five Angles on Murder'') is a 1950 British Murder-mystery film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde and John McCallum. After a woman is murdered, the complex and very different ways in which she is seen by several people are examined. It was loosely adapted into the 1954 Indian film ''Andha Naal''. Plot English widow Agnes Huston is found murdered at her house. As Superintendent Lodge and Inspector Butler question her friends and neighbours, flashback scenes play out widely differing interpretations of the dead woman and her behaviour. Neighbour Mrs. Finch tells Lodge that Agnes was a gentlewoman and her sister Catherine Taylor is rude and obnoxious. According to Mrs. Finch, the two sisters once had an argument about Agnes’ husband having an affair with Catherine. Catherine then left after hurting Agnes’ feelings. A few days later Catherine and her boyfriend Bob Baker forced their wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage Fright (1950 Film)
''Stage Fright'' is a 1950 British film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. The cast also features Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock in her film debut, and Joyce Grenfell in a vignette. The story was adapted for the screen by Whitfield Cook and Alma Reville (the director's wife), with additional dialogue by James Bridie, based on the 1947 novel '' Man Running'' by Selwyn Jepson. Plot Eve Gill is an aspiring actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She is interrupted in rehearsal by her friend (and crush), actor Jonathan Cooper, the secret lover of flamboyant stage actress and singer Charlotte Inwood. Via a flashback, he says Charlotte visited him after killing her husband; she was wearing a bloodstained dress. Jonathan claims he went back to her house for another dress but was seen by Nellie Goode, Charlotte's Cockney maid and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |