Irene Browne

Irene Browne

Irene Browne was born on February 23, 1891 in London, England. She was an actress, known for The Red Shoes (1948), Cavalcade (1933) and Pygmalion (1938). She died on July 24, 1965 in London. British-born leading actress with long stage experience, beginning in 1910 with 'Robert Macaire'. Appeared in the West End production of 'No,No Nanette' (1925), followed by Noel Coward's 'Cavalcade'. She was also in the Hollywood screen version of 'Cavalcade' (1933), but was subsequently relegated to supporting roles and eventually returned to the London stage. She played Lady Ann(e) Pettigrew in both Berkeley Square (1933) and its remake I'll Never Forget You (1951). Although she played Colin Keith-Johnston, Valerie Taylor and Heather Angel's mother in Berkeley Square (1933), she was only three months older than Keith-Johnston, six years older than Taylor and twelve years older than Angel in real life. Miss Browne pronounced her first name Eye-REE-nee.

  • Title: Irene Browne
  • Popularity: 0.333
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1891-02-23
  • Place of Birth: Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Irene Brown
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Irene Browne Movies

  • 1938
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    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion

    6.98 1938 HD

    When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

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  • 1963
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    The Wrong Arm of the Law

    The Wrong Arm of the Law

    6.5 1963 HD

    The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.

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  • 1957
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    Barnacle Bill

    Barnacle Bill

    6.4 1957 HD

    A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'

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  • 1947
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    Meet Me at Dawn

    Meet Me at Dawn

    7 1947 HD

    A young man makes his living in Paris in 1900 by fighting duels on behalf of other parties. He is hired to injure a leading politician and starts to get involved with a girl he uses to provoke the challenge. One newspaper, hostile to the politician, headlines the story of the impending duel asking who this Madame X is. Problem is, she is in fact the daughter of the paper's proprietor if only he knew it.

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  • 1933
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    Cavalcade

    Cavalcade

    5.512 1933 HD

    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 events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.

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  • 1933
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    Berkeley Square

    Berkeley Square

    5.667 1933 HD

    A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

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  • 1929
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    The Letter

    The Letter

    5.5 1929 HD

    A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

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  • 1933
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    Peg o' My Heart

    Peg o' My Heart

    4.4 1933 HD

    Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.

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  • 1941
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    The Prime Minister

    The Prime Minister

    6 1941 HD

    A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.

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  • 1936
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    The Amateur Gentleman

    The Amateur Gentleman

    4 1936 HD

    A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.

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  • 1933
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    My Lips Betray

    My Lips Betray

    1 1933 HD

    In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.

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  • 1933
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    Christopher Strong

    Christopher Strong

    5.843 1933 HD

    A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.

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  • 1951
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    The House in the Square

    The House in the Square

    6.3 1951 HD

    Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefather's cousin, Helen, but his contemporaries of 1784 are perplexed by his strange talk and the odd knowledge he possesses. Remake of Berkeley Square (1933).

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  • 1949
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    The Bad Lord Byron

    The Bad Lord Byron

    6 1949 HD

    Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.

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  • 1948
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    The Red Shoes

    The Red Shoes

    8 1948 HD

    A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

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  • 1959
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    Serious Charge

    Serious Charge

    5.778 1959 HD

    Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears being a spinster, wants to be his wife. He tells her he's not interested. When he confronts a tough kid about something the youth has done, the lad sets out to frame the vicar. Hester, who's walked in on the confrontation, backs the youth's story. The town sides with her and the lad, turning against Phillips. He has a crisis of faith. What options does he have; can no one help him, his reputation, or his calling?

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  • 1948
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    Quartet

    Quartet

    6.2 1948 HD

    Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

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  • 1958
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    Rooney

    Rooney

    5.5 1958 HD

    The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

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  • 1950
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    Madeleine

    Madeleine

    6.742 1950 HD

    Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.

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  • 1949
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    Trottie True

    Trottie True

    7 1949 HD

    Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

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  • 1931
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    The White Woman

    The White Woman

    1 1931 HD

    In Singapore , an English lady kills her lover, a fellow countryman, with a revolver out of jealousy towards a Chinese girl.

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