Mary Forbes
Is eol do: Acting
Breithlá: 1882-12-30
Áit bhreithe: Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
Ar a dtugtar: Ethel Louise Young
Theodora Goes Wild
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really...
Scaoileadh : 1936.11.12Coitianta : 7.825
Terror by Night
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune...
Scaoileadh : 1946.02.01Coitianta : 19.169
Laddie
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Scaoileadh : 1935.03.18Coitianta : 1.635
Almost Married
To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.
Scaoileadh : 1942.05.22Coitianta : 6.379
A Farewell to Arms
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley....
Scaoileadh : 1932.12.08Coitianta : 29.767
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...
Scaoileadh : 1938.09.01Coitianta : 26.303
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step...
Scaoileadh : 1939.02.17Coitianta : 5.408
The Awful Truth
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
Scaoileadh : 1937.10.21Coitianta : 13.844
Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Scaoileadh : 1933.10.13Coitianta : 16.147
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...
Scaoileadh : 1935.04.20Coitianta : 16.634
Roberta
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and...
Scaoileadh : 1935.03.07Coitianta : 16.427
She Was a Lady
Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to...
Scaoileadh : 1934.08.22Coitianta : 2.244
Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Scaoileadh : 1935.12.26Coitianta : 22.735
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis,...
Scaoileadh : 1939.09.01Coitianta : 14.62
British Agent
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
Scaoileadh : 1934.09.15Coitianta : 9.864
Tender Comrade
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same...
Scaoileadh : 1944.05.30Coitianta : 10.667
The Trespasser
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives...
Scaoileadh : 1929.11.11Coitianta : 11.868
Outside These Walls
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...
Scaoileadh : 1939.05.04Coitianta : 2.65
Sunny Side Up
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long...
Scaoileadh : 1929.12.25Coitianta : 7.304
Nothing But the Truth
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
Scaoileadh : 1941.10.10Coitianta : 6.576
Rendezvous
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Scaoileadh : 1935.10.25Coitianta : 14.641
Les Miserables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...
Scaoileadh : 1952.08.14Coitianta : 14.246
Back Street
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion...
Scaoileadh : 1941.02.07Coitianta : 5.523
The Thirteenth Chair
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous...
Scaoileadh : 1929.10.19Coitianta : 5.059
Houseboat
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Scaoileadh : 1958.11.19Coitianta : 29.186
The Man Who Came Back
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...
Scaoileadh : 1931.01.11Coitianta : 3.159
East Is West
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold...
Scaoileadh : 1930.10.23Coitianta : 2.51
Always Goodbye
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her...
Scaoileadh : 1938.06.24Coitianta : 8.527
You Can't Buy Everything
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
Scaoileadh : 1934.01.26Coitianta : 3.779
Lady on a Train
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one...
Scaoileadh : 1945.08.03Coitianta : 10.833
Chances
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom...
Scaoileadh : 1931.07.18Coitianta : 5.818
The Sun Never Sets
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa...
Scaoileadh : 1939.05.31Coitianta : 2.848
A Lost Lady
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Scaoileadh : 1934.09.29Coitianta : 4.336
The Woman's Portion
British fictionalised propaganda drama on the need for women to accept separation from, and loss of, their husbands.
Scaoileadh : 1918.01.01Coitianta : 1.116
Two Tickets to London
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
Scaoileadh : 1943.06.14Coitianta : 3.699
Working Girls
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in...
Scaoileadh : 1931.12.12Coitianta : 7.085
Everybody Sing
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical...
Scaoileadh : 1938.01.01Coitianta : 7.302
Three Loves Has Nancy
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Scaoileadh : 1938.09.02Coitianta : 3.812
Outside of Paradise
Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money...
Scaoileadh : 1938.02.08Coitianta : 1.48
Strictly Unconventional
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and...
Scaoileadh : 1930.05.03Coitianta : 2.677
Blind Date
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Scaoileadh : 1934.07.20Coitianta : 6.104
Blame It on Love
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.
Scaoileadh : 1940.06.18Coitianta : 2.148
Ivy
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr....
Scaoileadh : 1947.06.26Coitianta : 15.118
Risky Business
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Scaoileadh : 1939.03.03Coitianta : 2.307
Most Precious Thing in Life
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell,...
Scaoileadh : 1934.06.15Coitianta : 2.36
Women Who Win
A widow and her daughters join the Women's Service Training Bureau and become a nurse, a journalist and a landscape gardener.
Scaoileadh : 1919.01.02Coitianta : 0.849
Laddie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
Scaoileadh : 1940.01.18Coitianta : 4.736
The Life of the Party
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
Scaoileadh : 1937.09.03Coitianta : 1.329
Two Heads on a Pillow
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
Scaoileadh : 1934.10.02Coitianta : 1.494
Happiness Ahead
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window...
Scaoileadh : 1934.10.27Coitianta : 6.066
The Devil to Pay!
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into...
Scaoileadh : 1930.12.18Coitianta : 5.363
Hollywood Cavalcade
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...
Scaoileadh : 1939.10.13Coitianta : 11.633
South of Suez
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger...
Scaoileadh : 1940.11.16Coitianta : 3.945
The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...
Scaoileadh : 1936.06.25Coitianta : 8.258
Born to Love
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her...
Scaoileadh : 1931.04.17Coitianta : 5.376
Fast and Loose
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Scaoileadh : 1939.02.17Coitianta : 7.889
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's...
Scaoileadh : 1939.03.24Coitianta : 3.088
These Glamour Girls
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...
Scaoileadh : 1939.08.18Coitianta : 3.252
We Live Again
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that...
Scaoileadh : 1934.11.01Coitianta : 7.573
The Perfect Gentleman
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
Scaoileadh : 1935.11.22Coitianta : 1.768
Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Scaoileadh : 1939.11.23Coitianta : 27.633
Cavalcade
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst...
Scaoileadh : 1933.02.08Coitianta : 14.849
The Judge Steps Out
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Scaoileadh : 1947.12.15Coitianta : 4.157
Women of Glamour
A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.
Scaoileadh : 1937.03.09Coitianta : 1.837
Another Dawn
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia...
Scaoileadh : 1937.06.26Coitianta : 8.275
Shock
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob...
Scaoileadh : 1934.07.19Coitianta : 6.429
All This, and Heaven Too
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King...
Scaoileadh : 1940.07.05Coitianta : 11.543
The Silent Witness
A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
Scaoileadh : 1932.02.07Coitianta : 2.939
The Brat
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon...
Scaoileadh : 1931.08.23Coitianta : 4.628
It Had to Be You
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Scaoileadh : 1947.12.07Coitianta : 6.234
Florian
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Scaoileadh : 1940.06.05Coitianta : 9.747
Dangerous Blondes
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance...
Scaoileadh : 1943.09.23Coitianta : 11.396
Klondike Fury
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself...
Scaoileadh : 1942.03.20Coitianta : 1.672
Wee Willie Winkie
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he...
Scaoileadh : 1937.07.30Coitianta : 6.845
Wedding Present
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...
Scaoileadh : 1936.10.09Coitianta : 9.118
Earl Carroll Vanities
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual...
Scaoileadh : 1945.04.05Coitianta : 6.724
Cigarette Girl
A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.
Scaoileadh : 1947.02.13Coitianta : 2.675
Vanity Fair
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Scaoileadh : 1932.03.15Coitianta : 6.982
I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Scaoileadh : 1939.08.01Coitianta : 4.788
Twin Beds
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
Scaoileadh : 1942.04.30Coitianta : 3.358
The Great Impersonation
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
Scaoileadh : 1942.12.18Coitianta : 3.605
The Widow from Monte Carlo
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins...
Scaoileadh : 1935.12.19Coitianta : 5.731
Stranded
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Scaoileadh : 1935.06.29Coitianta : 8.898
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the...
Scaoileadh : 1945.03.03Coitianta : 17.231
What Do You Think? (Number Three)
This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.
Scaoileadh : 1938.01.15Coitianta : 2.08
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on...
Scaoileadh : 1943.03.24Coitianta : 20.105
So This Is London
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When...
Scaoileadh : 1930.05.23Coitianta : 1.504
Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she...
Scaoileadh : 1943.12.24Coitianta : 21.665
Mr. Lucky
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
Scaoileadh : 1943.07.01Coitianta : 14.531
The Rage of Paris
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of...
Scaoileadh : 1938.06.09Coitianta : 10.251
The Exile
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver...
Scaoileadh : 1947.10.17Coitianta : 7.888
Stage Door
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a...
Scaoileadh : 1937.10.08Coitianta : 22.074
Abraham Lincoln
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early...
Scaoileadh : 1930.11.08Coitianta : 17.023
Anna Karenina
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
Scaoileadh : 1935.08.30Coitianta : 14.176
I'll Remember April
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Scaoileadh : 1945.04.01Coitianta : 1.018
Private Affairs
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
Scaoileadh : 1940.07.05Coitianta : 12.524
Her Private Life
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
Scaoileadh : 1929.08.25Coitianta : 3.185
You Gotta Stay Happy
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the...
Scaoileadh : 1948.10.28Coitianta : 5.356
This Above All
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with...
Scaoileadh : 1942.05.12Coitianta : 9.855
One Hundred Men and a Girl
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few...
Scaoileadh : 1937.09.05Coitianta : 8.548
Dizzy Dames
A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
Scaoileadh : 1935.05.29Coitianta : 1.771
The Ice Follies of 1939
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...
Scaoileadh : 1939.03.10Coitianta : 6.558
Holiday
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Scaoileadh : 1930.07.03Coitianta : 6.846
Sadie McKee
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Scaoileadh : 1934.05.09Coitianta : 11.962
The Lady Clare
A Lord weds a Lady despite discovering that she is a substituted village child. Based on the poem Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Scaoileadh : 1919.01.01Coitianta : 0.098