May Whitty

May Whitty

Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE (19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors union Equity was established in her home. After a successful career she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72. She went to live in America, where she won awards for her film roles. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: May Whitty
  • Popularity: 2.1953
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1865-06-19
  • Place of Birth: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Mary Louise Whitty, Mary Louisa Whitty, Mary Louise Webster, Dame Mary Louise Webster, Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE, May Whitty, Miss May Whitty, Dame May Whitty
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May Whitty Movies

  • 1938
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    The Lady Vanishes

    The Lady Vanishes

    7.432 1938 HD

    On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.

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  • 1943
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    Lassie Come Home

    Lassie Come Home

    6.691 1943 HD

    Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.

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  • 1937
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    Conquest

    Conquest

    6.5 1937 HD

    A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.

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  • 1941
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    Suspicion

    Suspicion

    7.131 1941 HD

    A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

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  • 1942
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    Mrs. Miniver

    Mrs. Miniver

    7.055 1942 HD

    Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

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  • 1944
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    Gaslight

    Gaslight

    7.513 1944 HD

    A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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  • 1945
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    My Name Is Julia Ross

    My Name Is Julia Ross

    6.692 1945 HD

    Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.

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  • 1943
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    Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    7.144 1943 HD

    Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.

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  • 1947
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    This Time for Keeps

    This Time for Keeps

    5.2 1947 HD

    An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.

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  • 1948
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    The Sign of the Ram

    The Sign of the Ram

    5.864 1948 HD

    A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.

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  • 1944
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    The White Cliffs of Dover

    The White Cliffs of Dover

    6.545 1944 HD

    American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.

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  • 1946
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    Devotion

    Devotion

    6 1946 HD

    In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.

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  • 1943
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    Crash Dive

    Crash Dive

    6.3 1943 HD

    A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

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  • 1937
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    Night Must Fall

    Night Must Fall

    6.9 1937 HD

    Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.

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  • 1943
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    The Constant Nymph

    The Constant Nymph

    6.1 1943 HD

    The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.

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  • 1940
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    A Bill of Divorcement

    A Bill of Divorcement

    7 1940 HD

    Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.

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  • 1942
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    Thunder Birds

    Thunder Birds

    5.4 1942 HD

    On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.

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  • 1947
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    Green Dolphin Street

    Green Dolphin Street

    6.1 1947 HD

    Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

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  • 1943
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    Flesh and Fantasy

    Flesh and Fantasy

    6.8 1943 HD

    Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.

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  • 1947
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    If Winter Comes

    If Winter Comes

    6.6 1947 HD

    The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.

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  • 1939
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    Raffles

    Raffles

    6 1939 HD

    Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.

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  • 1937
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    The Thirteenth Chair

    The Thirteenth Chair

    6.143 1937 HD

    A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.

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  • 1943
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    Slightly Dangerous

    Slightly Dangerous

    6.125 1943 HD

    Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

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  • 1938
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    I Met My Love Again

    I Met My Love Again

    5.4 1938 HD

    In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.

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  • 1948
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    The Return of October

    The Return of October

    5.8 1948 HD

    A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

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  • 1940
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    Return to Yesterday

    Return to Yesterday

    6.2 1940 HD

    Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

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  • 1915
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    The Little Minister

    The Little Minister

    1 1915 HD

    A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.

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  • 1943
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    Stage Door Canteen

    Stage Door Canteen

    6.1 1943 HD

    A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.

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  • 1941
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    One Night In Lisbon

    One Night In Lisbon

    1 1941 HD

    Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.

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  • 1943
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    Forever and a Day

    Forever and a Day

    7.4 1943 HD

    In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

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  • 1942
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    Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    6 1942 HD

    Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

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  • 1936
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    Keep Your Seats, Please

    Keep Your Seats, Please

    6.4 1936 HD

    Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot? It's hard to say, but he still finds time to perform both the title song and the classic 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.

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