A Bill of Divorcement 1940  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Farrow
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Bainter, Herbert Marshall, Dame May Whitty, Patric Knowles, C. Aubrey Smith, Ernest Cossart, Kathryn Collier, Bunny Beatty
In this remake of the 1932 film, a mentally ill man (Adolphe Menjou) regains sanity and returns home after a long absence. He is confronted with divorce, but gets to know his now-grown daughter (Maureen O'Hara).
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The Constant Nymph 1943  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Dame May Whitty, Peter Lorre, Eduardo Ciannelli, Montagu Love, Marcel Dalio
Joan Fontaine received an Academy Award nomination for her role as the 14-year-old Tessa Sanger who is smitten with the sophisticated composer, Lewis Dodd (Charles Boyer).
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Crash Dive 1943 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, Dame May Whitty, Harry Morgan, Ben Carter, Charles Tannen, Frank Conroy, Florence Lake, John Archer, George Holmes
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Special Effects, this submarine/love story involves the captain (Dewey Connors) of the U.S.S. Corsair; his executive officer, Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power); and the woman, Jean Hewlett (Anne Baxter), who they both love. Tensions rise after the submarine arrives in New London, and Stewart learns that Connors is already engaged to Jean. Although the two must work together, when the submarine is ordered back to sea to take part in a secret mission, tensions reach new heights over both the war effort and Jean.
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Devotion 1946 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Nancy Coleman, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Arthur Kennedy, Dame May Whitty, Victor Francen, Montagu Love, Edmund Breon
This is a biography of the Bronte sisters–ala Hollywood–featuring Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland) and Emily (Ida Lupino) as two sisters competing for the romantic attentions of Arthur Nicholls (Paul Henreid).
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Flesh and Fantasy 1943  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Winninger, Dame May Whitty, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Benchley
This film consists of three intriguing stories–each connected through a supernatural theme.
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Forever and a Day 1943 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Claude Rains, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, Ida Lupino, Cedric Hardwicke, Gladys Cooper
Many directors and about 80 actors (mostly British) made this film to boost the morale of the people at home during World War II. The listed actors are but a sampling of the big names that contributed to this fine effort. It is the episodic tale of the families who lived in a house from the early 1800s to World War II. Each episode had a different director.
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 Gaslight 1944 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury, Dame May Whitty, Barbara Everest, Eustace Wyatt, Halliwell Hobbes, Terry Moore, Edmund Breon, Emil Rameau, Heather Thatcher, Lawrence Grossmith, Jakob Gimpel, Gary Gray
Paula (Ingrid Bergman) naively marries Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer), and they move into the London home Paula has inherited from her aunt who was murdered ten years ago. Gregory is a jewel thief, and, unbeknownst to everyone except himself, Gregory is the murderer of Paula's aunt. Now, he tries to drive Paula insane. Scotland Yard policeman Brian Cameron (Joseph Cotten) becomes suspicious of Gregory and investigates, but will he be able to save Paula? Ingrid Bergman won the Academy Award for her role in this psychological suspense story. There were also five nominations, including Best Picture and Actor.
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Green Dolphin Street 1947  N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Richard Hart, Frank Morgan, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Gladys Cooper, Linda Christian
Set in 19th-century New Zealand, this is a weak epic tale about two sisters who desire the same man. Nevertheless, the film did win the Academy Award for "Best Special Effects" along with three nominations.
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I Met My Love Again 1938 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joshua Logan, George Cukor, Arthur Ripley
Cast: Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Louise Platt, Alan Baxter, Tim Holt, Dorothy Stickney
A young woman (Joan Bennett) leaves her small town to run away with her lover and lives to regret her actions.
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If Winter Comes 1947  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Binnie Barnes, Janet Leigh, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams, Halliwell Hobbes
Mark Sabre (Walter Pidgeon) takes unwed, pregnant Nona Tybar (Deborah Kerr) as a goodwill effort, but tragedy results.
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The Lady Vanishes 1938 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty, Paul Lukas, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Mary Clare, Basil Radford, Googie Withers, Naunton Wayne
This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films. It has it all–comedy and suspense aboard a train traveling through Germany. And, as suggested by the title, an old woman disappears. The search for this "lady" reveals that she is not who she appears to be.
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Lassie Come Home 1943 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Elizabeth Taylor, Nigel Bruce, Elsa Lanchester, J. Pat O'Malley, Alec Craig, Arthur Shields, Ben Webster, John Rogers, Alan Napier
A poor Yorkshire family sells its collie, Lassie, to the Duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce), but Lassie escapes from her new home in Scotland and makes the long trip back to Yorkshire.
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Madame Curie 1943 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Walker, Dame May Whitty, Henry Travers, C. Aubrey Smith, Albert Bassermann, Victor Francen, Reginald Owen, Van Johnson
This biography of Marie Curie (Greer Garson) and her discovery of radium is both educational and entertaining. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor (Walter Pidgeon), and Actress (Garson).
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Mrs. Miniver 1942 N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Henry Travers, Richard Ney, Reginald Owen, Miles Mander, Henry Wilcoxon, Rhys Williams, Mary Field, Brenda Forbes, Helmut Dantine, Tom Conway
Kay Miniver (Greer Garson) is the matriarch of a British family who holds things together as World War II closes in around them. While she tends to the children and her garden, her husband Clem (Walter Pigeon) takes part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. Meanwhile, German bombs are dropping on their peaceful village, and the eldest son Vin (Richard Ney) falls in love with upper-crust Carol (Teresa Wright). The family seems able to face the tragedies of the war, but will the war take its toll on their young love? This film was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture, Director (William Wyler), Actress (Garson), and Supporting Actress (Wright). It also won two more Oscars and was nominated for six others, including Best Actor (Pidgeon), Supporting Actor (Henry Travers), and Supporting Actress (Dame May Whitty).
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Night Must Fall 1937 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Winifred Harris, Kathleen Harrison, Matthew Boulton, E.E. Clive, Eily Malyon, Beryl Mercer
Robert Montgomery and Dame May Whitty received Academy Award nominations for their roles in this drama about a psychotic killer, Danny (Robert Montgomery), masquerading as a charming young man. He cons his way into the Bransom home as a live-in companion for Mrs. Bransom (Dame May Whitty), but her niece, Olivia (Rosalind Russell), becomes suspicious of Danny's extracurricular activities.
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One Night in Lisbon 1941 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward H. Griffith
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Patricia Morison, Billie Burke, John Loder, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Denny, Billy Gilbert, Marcel Dalio
An American pilot, Dwight Houston (Fred MacMurray), is in Lisbon during World War II and falls in love with an English woman, Leonora (Madeleine Carroll), who he meets when both seek shelter during an air raid.
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Raffles 1940 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty, Dudley Digges, Douglas Walton, Lionel Pape, E.E. Clive, Peter Godfrey, Margaret Seddon, Gilbert Emery
An ex-Scotland Yard detective, Raffles (David Niven), relieves his boredom by becoming a jewel thief. This is a remake of a 1930 film by the same name.
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The Return of October 1948 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Glenn Ford, Albert Sharpe, Terry Moore, James Gleason, Roland Winters, Dame May Whitty, Henry O'Neill, Samuel S. Hinds, Nana Bryant, Stephen Dunne
In this Melvin Frank-Norman Panama story, Terry Ramsey (Terry Moore) fantasizes that her Uncle Willie (James Gleason) has come back from the dead and is now a horse. Professor Bassert (Glenn Ford) becomes interested in writing a book about her story.
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Slightly Dangerous 1943 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Dame May Whitty, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette, Florence Bates, Ray Collins, Ward Bond, Paul Stanton, Millard Mitchell, Pamela Blake
Peggy Evans (Lana Turner) leaves her small town and heads for New York City where she pretends to be a missing heiress and gets herself in a lot of trouble for her efforts.
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Suspicion 1941 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, Reginald Sheffield, Leo G. Carroll, Constance Worth, Auriol Lee, Billy Bevan, Gavin Gordon, Lumsden Hare, Alfred Hitchcock
Timid Lina (Joan Fontaine) marries Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant). Although deeply in love with Johnnie, Lina begins to piece together evidence that she is her husband's intended murder victim. Joan Fontaine won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in this film, and a nomination was received for Best Picture.
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 Thunder Birds 1942 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton, Jack Holt, Dame May Whitty, George Barbier, Richard Haydn, Reginald Denny, Iris Adrian, Ted North, C. Montague Shaw, Joyce Compton
Set during World War II, this is the story of a love triangle between Kay Saunders (Gene Tierney), air cadet Steve Britt (Preston Foster), and his trainer Peter Stackhouse (John Sutton).
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The White Cliffs of Dover 1944 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Gladys Cooper, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor
Based on a poem by Alice Duer, this is a sentimental tale of Susan Dunn Ashwood's (Irene Dunne) personal losses–her husband was killed in World War I and, now, her son is lost during World War II.
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| 1. A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
2. The Constant Nymph (1943)
3. Crash Dive (1943)
4. Devotion (1946)
5. Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
6. Forever and a Day (1943)
7. Gaslight (1944)
8. Green Dolphin Street (1947)
9. I Met My Love Again (1938)
10. If Winter Comes (1947)
11. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
12. Lassie Come Home (1943)
13. Madame Curie (1943)
14. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
15. Night Must Fall (1937)
16. One Night in Lisbon (1941)
17. Raffles (1940)
18. The Return of October (1948)
19. Slightly Dangerous (1943)
20. Suspicion (1941)
21. Thunder Birds (1942)
22. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
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