Constance Collier

Constance Collier

Constance Collier (born Laura Constance Hardie; 22 January 1878 – 25 April 1955) was an English stage and film actress and acting coach. She made her stage debut at the age of three, when she played Fairy Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and later appeared in several Shakespearean stage plays. Her brief visit to New York in the 1910s yielded her work in a few silent films. When she was diagnosed with diabetes, she became the first ever patient in Europe to receive insulin treatment following its recent discovery. She served as an acting coach for many silent film stars in 1920s Hollywood following the tumultuous change to "talkies". While her most famous pupil was arguably Colleen Moore, her most acclaimed lifelong friend was fellow Stage Door co-star, Katharine Hepburn. Collier has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

  • Title: Constance Collier
  • Popularity: 0.7756
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1878-01-22
  • Place of Birth: Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Laura Constance Hardie, David L'Estrange
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Constance Collier Movies

  • 1948
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    Rope

    Rope

    7.935 1948 HD

    Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

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  • 1946
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    The Dark Corner

    The Dark Corner

    6.6 1946 HD

    Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

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  • 1936
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    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    6.7 1936 HD

    An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.

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  • 2001
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    Rope Unleashed

    Rope Unleashed

    6.9 2001 HD

    A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly making a movie about gay murderers in the 1940s.

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  • 1947
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    An Ideal Husband

    An Ideal Husband

    6.3 1947 HD

    A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.

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  • 1950
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    Whirlpool

    Whirlpool

    6.473 1950 HD

    The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

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  • 1937
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    Stage Door

    Stage Door

    7.027 1937 HD

    A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.

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  • 1937
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    Wee Willie Winkie

    Wee Willie Winkie

    6.6 1937 HD

    In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.

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  • 1937
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    A Damsel in Distress

    A Damsel in Distress

    6.5 1937 HD

    Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.

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  • 1937
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    Thunder in the City

    Thunder in the City

    5.4 1937 HD

    A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

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  • 1945
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    Kitty

    Kitty

    5.5 1945 HD

    Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.

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  • 1947
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    The Perils of Pauline

    The Perils of Pauline

    6.2 1947 HD

    Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take

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  • 1935
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    Professional Soldier

    Professional Soldier

    4.5 1935 HD

    Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.

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  • 1936
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    Girls' Dormitory

    Girls' Dormitory

    5.9 1936 HD

    When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

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  • 1935
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    Shadow of Doubt

    Shadow of Doubt

    6.2 1935 HD

    When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.

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  • 1938
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    Zaza

    Zaza

    5.2 1938 HD

    A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.

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  • 1916
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    Macbeth

    Macbeth

    1 1916 HD

    Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.

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  • 1922
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    The Bohemian Girl

    The Bohemian Girl

    6.6 1922 HD

    A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.

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  • 1946
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    Monsieur Beaucaire

    Monsieur Beaucaire

    5.4 1946 HD

    A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.

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  • 1940
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    Susan and God

    Susan and God

    6.5 1940 HD

    A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

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  • 1940
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    Half a Sinner

    Half a Sinner

    5.2 1940 HD

    Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.

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  • 1916
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    7.1 1916 HD

    The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

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  • 1927
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    Downhill

    Downhill

    5.756 1927 HD

    When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.

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  • 1948
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    The Girl from Manhattan

    The Girl from Manhattan

    5 1948 HD

    A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.

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  • 1920
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    Bleak House

    Bleak House

    1 1920 HD

    'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)

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  • 1929
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    The Return of the Rat

    The Return of the Rat

    5.8 1929 HD

    The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....

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  • 1935
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    Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson

    6.925 1935 HD

    When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.

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  • 1925
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    The Rat

    The Rat

    1 1925 HD

    When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.

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  • 1937
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    The Rat

    The Rat

    7.5 1937 HD

    Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.

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  • 1929
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    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Taming of the Shrew

    5.5 1929 HD

    Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her father will not allow Bianca to be married until her older sister, who is notoriously quarrelsome and bad-tempered, is married first. When Petruchio comes from Verona to Padua in search of a wife, he hears of this situation, and he accepts the challenge of trying to woo and marry the ill-natured Katherine.

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  • 1947
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    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    7.5 1947 HD

    In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

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  • 1921
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    Forever

    Forever

    1 1921 HD

    Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love revives, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world.

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  • 1927
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    Downhill

    Downhill

    5.756 1927 HD

    When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.

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  • 1945
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    Kitty

    Kitty

    5.5 1945 HD

    Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.

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