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Emily Fitzroy is a Actor British born on 23 may 1860 at London (United-kingdom)
Emily Fitzroy (24 May 1860, London - 3 March 1954, Gardena, California) was an English film actress who eventually became an American citizen. She made her film debut in 1915 and retired in 1944, with exactly 100 films to her resume.
Au cinéma, de 1913 à 1944, elle contribue à une centaine de films (américains surtout, plus quelques-uns britanniques), dont une soixantaine muets.
Parmi ses films notables, citons À travers l'orage de D. W. Griffith (1920, avec Lillian Gish et Richard Barthelmess), Bardelys le magnifique de King Vidor (1926, avec John Gilbert et Eleanor Boardman), Anna Karénine d'Edmund Goulding (avec John Gilbert et Greta Garbo), Vigil in the Night de George Stevens (1940, avec Carole Lombard et Brian Aherne), ou encore La Belle Ensorceleuse de René Clair (1941, avec Marlène Dietrich et Bruce Cabot).
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Emily Fitzroy
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 23 may 1860 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 3 march 1954 (at 93 years) at Gardena (USA)
Birth 23 may 1860 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 3 march 1954 (at 93 years) at Gardena (USA)
Biography
Emily Fitzroy entame sa carrière d'actrice au théâtre et, installée aux États-Unis, joue notamment à Broadway (New York) entre 1912 et 1922, dans six pièces et une comédie musicale.Au cinéma, de 1913 à 1944, elle contribue à une centaine de films (américains surtout, plus quelques-uns britanniques), dont une soixantaine muets.
Parmi ses films notables, citons À travers l'orage de D. W. Griffith (1920, avec Lillian Gish et Richard Barthelmess), Bardelys le magnifique de King Vidor (1926, avec John Gilbert et Eleanor Boardman), Anna Karénine d'Edmund Goulding (avec John Gilbert et Greta Garbo), Vigil in the Night de George Stevens (1940, avec Carole Lombard et Brian Aherne), ou encore La Belle Ensorceleuse de René Clair (1941, avec Marlène Dietrich et Bruce Cabot).
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The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
, 2h6Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Gladys Cooper
Roles Spinster in Boardinghouse (uncredited)
Rating69%
At the height of World War II, Lady Susan Ashwood (Irene Dunne) is a nurse in a British hospital, awaiting the arrival of some wounded men. She thinks back to how she came to Britain many years before.
Forever and a Day (1943)
, 1h44Directed by Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Herbert Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Kent Smith, George Kirby, Ruth Warrick, Merle Oberon, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner
Roles Ms. Fulcher
Rating69%
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret (Kent Smith) is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble (Ruth Warrick), 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.
Two-Faced Woman (1941)
, 1h30Directed by George Cukor, Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Ruth Gordon, Robert Sterling
Roles Rhumba Dancer (uncredited)
Rating62%
A fashion magazine editor (Douglas) marries a ski instructor (Garbo) on impulse, but she soon learns he expects her to be a dutiful wife, and not the independent woman he seemed to marry her for. They separate and he returns to New York City, where he takes up again with a playwright, (Bennett), with whom he was involved prior to marriage.
The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
, 1h19Directed by René Clair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Bruce Cabot, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine, Eddie Quillan, Anne Revere
Roles Giraud's Cousin Amelia
Rating64%
The legend of "Claire of New Orleans" is born after two fishermen find a wedding dress floating around on the Mississippi River one day. The legend tells that the Countess Claire Ledux disappeared on her wedding day in the year of 1840, and when the dress was found, the people of New Orleans assumed that the bride had committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. This is how the story begins, and then we find out what really happened, as the story of Claire Ledux is revealed.
Vigil in the Night (1940)
, 1h42Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Robert Coote, Peter Cushing, Ethel Griffies
Roles Sister Gilson
Rating66%
In Great Britain, Vigil in the Night nurse Anne Lee (Carole Lombard) takes the blame for a fatal error made by her sister Lucy (Anne Shirley), also a nurse, and is forced to leave the hospital where they both work. She moves to a large city where she procures a job at another hospital and falls in love with Dr. Robert Prescott (Brian Aherne). Overcoming obstacles and personal tragedy along the way, Anne and Prescott work together to bring about better conditions for the care of the sick as well as fighting an epidemic which threatens to overwhelm all those around them.
The Frontiersmen (1938)
, 1h14Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors William Boyd, George "Gabby" Hayes, Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Evelyn Venable, William Duncan, Clara Kimball Young
Roles Snooksie
Rating62%
This script must be run from the command line
Nothing Sacred (1937)
, 1h17Directed by William A. Wellman, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about journalists
Actors Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly, Charles Winninger, Sig Ruman, Margaret Hamilton
Roles Guest at Banquet (uncredited)
Rating68%
New York newspaper reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) is blamed for passing off an ordinary African-American (Troy Brown) as an African nobleman hosting a charity event (despite his claims of not knowing this was false). Cook is demoted to writing obituaries. He begs his boss Oliver Stone (Walter Connolly) for another chance. Wally is sent to the (fictional) town of Warsaw, Vermont, to interview Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard), a woman supposedly dying of radium poisoning. Cook finally locates Hazel, who is crying because her doctor has told her that she is not dying. Unaware of this, he invites her to New York as the guest of the Morning Star newspaper.
The Bold Caballero (1936)
, 1h7Directed by Wells Root
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Robert Livingston, Heather Angel, Sig Ruman, Robert Warwick, Ian Wolfe, Emily Fitzroy
Roles Lady Isabella's chaperone
Rating57%
Zorro (Robert Livingston) has been captured and set for execution, charged with the murder of the new Governor (Robert Warwick) in Spanish California, as the Governor was marked with a "Z". Zorro escapes, and reveals his identity to the Governor's daughter, Isabella (Heather Angel). However, Isabella then has Don Diego arrested. He convinces Isabella that the Commandante (Sig Ruman) was the real killer, as the "Z" on the Governor was backwards. Eventually, Isabella helps free Don Diego, the Commandante is killed, and Diego and Isabella reunite.
Border Flight (1936)
, 58minutesDirected by Otto Lovering
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Frances Farmer, John Howard, Roscoe Karns, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Old Maid
Rating63%
China Seas (1935)
, 1h27Directed by Tay Garnett, William A. Wellman, Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley
Roles Mrs. Higgins (uncredited)
Rating68%
Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) is the captain of a tramp steamer chugging between Singapore and Hong Kong. Dolly Portland (Jean Harlow) is Alan's former girlfriend who books passage on the steamer at the same time that another of Alan's former loves, aristocratic Sybil Barclay (Rosalind Russell), shows up. Jamesy McArdle (Wallace Beery) is a passenger, who is actually in league with a gang of pirates who plan to steal the gold shipment being carried on the steamer.
She Couldn't Take It (1935)
, 1h17Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors George Raft, Joan Bennett, Walter Connolly, Billie Burke, Lloyd Nolan, Wallace Ford
Roles Party Guest
Rating63%
It tells the story of the wealthy family Van Dyke: a frustrated patriarch Dan (Walter Connolly); his self-centered wife (Billie Burke); and his spoiled children Tony (James Blakeley) and Carol (Joan Bennett). They have constant run-ins for outrageous behavior.
The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
, 1h32Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, John Gilbert, Helen Vinson, Fred Keating
Roles Mrs. Victoria Griswold
Rating63%
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the ship San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
The Man with Two Faces (1934)
, 1h12Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke, Louis Calhern, Arthur Byron
Roles Hattie
Rating63%
Jessica Wells (Astor) is a beautiful and talented actress, returning to the stage after a three-year absence. Although her triumphal return seems certain, family and friends are shocked when Vance (Calhern), her long-lost husband with a criminal past, shows up at the family home. He immediately exerts his influence on the vivacious Jessica, and she becomes a sleepwalking automaton blindly obeying orders.
Don Quixote (1933)
, 1h13Directed by John Farrow, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Jean de Limur
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Buddy films
Actors Fédor Chaliapine, George Robey, René Donnio, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, Emily Fitzroy, Sidney Fox
Roles Sancho Panza's wife
Rating68%
Her Imaginary Lover (1933)
, 1h6Directed by George King
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Laura La Plante, Percy Marmont, Bernard Nedell, Olive Blakeney, Roland Culver, Emily Fitzroy
Roles Aunt Lydia Raleigh