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Beatrice Varley
Beatrice Evelyn Varley (11 July 1896 – 4 July 1964) was an English actress who appeared in television and film roles between 1936 and 1964. She made her screen debut in the 1936 film ''Tomorrow We Live'' and began to portray a variety of character roles in films such as '' Oh, Mr Porter!'', '' Holiday Camp'' and '' The Wicked Lady'' before moving predominantly into television until she died in 1964. Selected filmography * '' Tomorrow We Live'' (1936) - Patricia's Mother (uncredited) * '' Spring Handicap'' (1937) - Mrs. Tulip * '' Oh, Mr Porter!'' (1937) - Barney's Bar Landlady (uncredited) * '' Young and Innocent'' (1937) - Accused Man's Wife in First Court Case (uncredited) * '' Crackerjack'' (1938) - Bit Role (uncredited) * '' Poison Pen'' (1939) - Mrs. Jenkins * ''Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday'' (1939) - Mrs. Mooney (uncredited) * '' Kipps'' (1941) - Mrs. Kipps * ''Rush Hour'' (1941, Short) - Shopper (uncredited) * '' South American George'' (1941) - Mrs. Butters * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millions Like Us
''Millions Like Us'' is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It starred Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Eric Portman and Megs Jenkins. It was co-written and co-directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. According to the British Film Institute database, this film is the first in an "unofficial trilogy", along with '' Two Thousand Women'' (1944) and '' Waterloo Road'' (1945). Plot The opening credits show huge crowds of workers going into factories. The narrator begins the film with nostalgic views of crowded beaches and remembering what it was like to eat an orange (unavailable in the war). Celia Crowson and her family go on holiday to the south coast of England in the summer of 1939, staying in the guest house they visit every year. Soon afterwards, the Second World War breaks out and Celia's father joins what was to become the Home Guard. Her more confident sister Phyllis joins the Auxiliary Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rush Hour (1941 Film)
''Rush Hour'' is a 1941 British Public Information short film made by the wartime Ministry of Information and designed to pass on an important message to cinemagoers in a humorous manner. The film was directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Edward Black. ''Rush Hour'' was filmed as a series of short comedy sequences, illustrating the various degrees of chaos and confusion arising from public transport being overwhelmed with passengers at peak times. Its twin targets were employers, to whom the desirability of staggered working hours was stressed, and casual leisure travellers, who were exhorted: "Shopping? Visiting? Then get home early at your ease – leave rush-hour seats for workers, please!" Cast * Muriel George as Violet * Hay Petrie as Bus Conductor * Beatrice Varley as Violet's friend * Charles Victor as Bus Inspector * David Keir as Man at Bus Stop * Robert Brooks Turner as Man at Bus Stop * Merle Tottenham Merle Tottenham (22 January 1901 – 18 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterloo Road (film)
''Waterloo Road'' is a 1945 British film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring John Mills, Stewart Granger, and Alastair Sim. It is based on the Waterloo area of South London. According to the British Film Institute database, it is the third in an "unofficial trilogy" by Gilliat, preceded by ''Millions Like Us'' (1943) and ''Two Thousand Women'' (1944). Premise A soldier, Jim Colter (Mills), goes AWOL to return to his home in south London to save his wife from the advances of Ted Purvis (Granger), a philandering conscription-dodger. Cast * John Mills as Jim Colter * Stewart Granger as Ted Purvis * Alastair Sim as Dr. Montgomery * Joy Shelton as Tillie Colter * Alison Leggatt as Ruby * Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Colter * George Carney as Tom Mason * Leslie Bradley as Mike Duggan * Jean Kent as Toni * Ben Williams as Corporal Lewis * Anna Konstam as May * Vera Frances as Vera Colter * George Merritt as Air Raid Warden Production The film was originally known as ''Blue for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Story (1944 Film)
''Love Story'' is a 1944 British black-and-white romance film directed by Leslie Arliss and starring Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, and Patricia Roc. Based on a short story by J. W. Drawbell, the film is about a concert pianist who, after learning that she is dying of heart failure, decides to spend her last days in Cornwall. While there, she meets a former RAF pilot who is going blind, and soon a romantic attraction forms. Released in the United States as ''A Lady Surrenders'', this wartime melodrama produced by Gainsborough Pictures was filmed on location at the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno in Cornwall, England. Plot Concert pianist Felicity Crichton Lissa Campbell ( Margaret Lockwood) leaves her successful music career to devote herself to the British war effort. She applies to be in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, part of the RAF, but is rejected for health reasons. She then learns that she has a heart condition and does not have long to live. Determined to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bees In Paradise
''Bees in Paradise'' is a 1944 British musical comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton and Peter Graves. It was produced by Edward Black at Gainsborough Pictures. Co-written by director Val Guest and comic Marriott Edgar, who wrote for Will Hay and the Crazy Gang and composed some of Stanley Holloway's famous monologues; this is a lesser known Askey vehicle. Plot The Queen of Paradise Island, an uncharted isle somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean (northwest of Freetown, Sierra Leone), is not happy. The town crier of the all-female hive-like colony (around two thousand strong) has just reported that there have only been two births within the last eighteen months and both of them were boys. As the Queen points out to Jani, her Minister of Propaganda: the only thing worse than boys is men. She demands more marriages, even going as far to think about passing conscription into law. However, Jani points out that the drones (which is how the inhabitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Walk Beside You (film)
''I'll Walk Beside You'' is a 1943 British drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Richard Bird, Lesley Brook and Percy Marmont.Williams p.44 It takes its name from the song "I'll Walk Beside You" by Alan Murray and Edward Lockton,which is played over the opening credits and used as a refrain throughout. The film's production company, Butcher's Film Service, had a tendency of naming their films after popular songs. Cast * Richard Bird as John Brent * Lesley Brook as Ann Johnson * Percy Marmont as Vicar * Leslie Bradley as Tomm Booth * Sylvia Marriott as Joan Tremayne * Hugh Miller as Dr. Stevenson * Beatrice Varley as Miss McKenzie * Irene Handl as Ma Perkins * George Merritt as Hancock * Hilda Bayley as Mrs. Tremayne * John McHugh as Orchestral Soloist * St. David's Singers as Vocal Ensemble * London Symphony Orchestra The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man In Grey
''The Man in Grey'' is a 1943 British film melodrama made by Gainsborough Pictures; it is considered to be the first of a series of period costume dramas now known as the "Gainsborough melodramas". It was directed by Leslie Arliss and produced by Edward Black from a screenplay by Arliss and Margaret Kennedy that was adapted by Doreen Montgomery from the 1941 novel '' The Man in Grey'' by Eleanor Smith. The film's sets were designed by Walter Murton. The picture stars Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stewart Granger and Martita Hunt. It melds elements of the successful " women's pictures" of the time with distinctive new elements. Plot In London, in 1943, a Wren ( Phyllis Calvert) and an RAF pilot (Stewart Granger) meet at an auction of the Rohan estate, now being sold off because the last male heir died at Dunkirk. The gems of the auction are two portraits, one of the 8th Marquis of Rohan, known as The Man in Grey, and one of his wife, Clarissa, a famou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bells Go Down
''The Bells Go Down'' is a 1943 black-and-white wartime film made by Ealing Studios. The reference in the title is to the alarm bells in the fire station that "go down" when a call to respond is made. The film is an ensemble piece that covers the period between 27 August 1939 and 9 September 1940, when World War II began and London was subjected to aerial bombing, and is a tribute to the solidarity of not just those engaged in service, but among the British people as a whole. It was produced by Michael Balcon and directed by Basil Dearden and was intended to give praise to the British Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS). Although the plot employs fictitious landmarks and localities, many of the incidental shots were taken at actual fires caused by the air raids on London in the previous two years. A sub-plot depicted the rivalry between the part-time AFS and the full-time London Fire Brigade (the two brigades merged into the National Fire Service in 1941). The reasons for joining the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Dive At Dawn
''We Dive at Dawn'' is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War. It was written by Val Valentine and J. B. Williams with uncredited assistance from Frank Launder. It was produced by Edward Black. The film's sets were designed by Walter Murton. Plot It is April, 1942. Lieutenant Freddie Taylor and some crew of the submarine ''Sea Tiger'' are given a week's leave after an unsuccessful patrol. Leading Seaman Hobson goes home to save his marriage, while a reluctant Torpedo Gunner's Mate Corrigan departs for his wedding in London. When the crew are recalled early Corrigan is relieved, though later regrets not completing his marriage. ''Sea Tiger'' has been assigned the top secret mission to sink Nazi Germany's new battleship, the ''Brandenburg'', before she transits the Kiel Canal for sea trials in the Baltic Sea. ''Sea Tiger'' must put to sea immediately. Crossing the North Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squadron Leader X
''Squadron Leader X'' is a 1943 British World War II spy drama directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was adapted by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm from a short story by Emeric Pressburger. Plot Erich Kohler ( Eric Portman), a crack Luftwaffe pilot who speaks fluent English, is ordered by his superior, Inspector Siegel ( Frederick Richter) to drop a "stick" of bombs on the Belgian city of Ghent. He is further instructed to bail out of his aircraft wearing a British RAF uniform, gain the confidence of the local populace and then try to convince them that the British are responsible for the bombing of civilian targets in Belgium. Despite being able to have a convincing English accent, and equipped with a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players cigarettes, the plan goes awry when Kohler falls into the hands of the Belgian Resistance. The resistance members believe they are doing him a favour by arranging for him to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
