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Jessie Royce Landis is a Actor American born on 25 november 1896 at Chicago (USA)
Jessie Royce Landis (November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress.
Au cinéma, elle apparaît pour la première fois en 1930 et n'y revient qu'en 1949, puis occasionnellement jusqu'en 1970.
Elle est surtout connue pour ses rôles de second plan dans deux films d'Alfred Hitchcock : La Main au collet (1955), où elle interprète Jessie Stevens (dont la fille est incarnée par Grace Kelly), et La Mort aux trousses (1959), où elle joue cette fois Clara Thornhill (dont le fils est interprété par Cary Grant).
À la télévision, elle se produit dans quelques téléfilms et séries (Columbo, L'Homme de fer...) entre 1948 et 1971.
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Birth name Jessie Royce Medbury
Nationality USA
Birth 25 november 1896 at Chicago (USA)
Death 2 february 1972 (at 75 years) at Danbury (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 25 november 1896 at Chicago (USA)
Death 2 february 1972 (at 75 years) at Danbury (USA)
Biography
Jessie Royce Landis (du nom de son premier époux) est particulièrement active au théâtre et joue, entre 1926 et 1964, des pièces à Broadway (New York), où elle assure en outre la mise en scène de deux productions (Les Quatre Filles du docteur March en 1944 et Lovely Me en 1946-1947).Au cinéma, elle apparaît pour la première fois en 1930 et n'y revient qu'en 1949, puis occasionnellement jusqu'en 1970.
Elle est surtout connue pour ses rôles de second plan dans deux films d'Alfred Hitchcock : La Main au collet (1955), où elle interprète Jessie Stevens (dont la fille est incarnée par Grace Kelly), et La Mort aux trousses (1959), où elle joue cette fois Clara Thornhill (dont le fils est interprété par Cary Grant).
À la télévision, elle se produit dans quelques téléfilms et séries (Columbo, L'Homme de fer...) entre 1948 et 1971.
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Airport (1970)
, 2h17Directed by Henry Hathaway, George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes
Roles Harriet DuBarry Mossman
Rating65%
Chicago is paralyzed by a snowstorm affecting Lincoln International Airport. A Trans Global Airlines (TGA) Boeing 707 flight crew misjudge their turn off of Runway 29 on to the taxiway, becoming stuck in the snow and closing Runway 29, forcing airport manager Mel Bakersfield (Burt Lancaster) to work overtime. This causes tension with his wife, Cindy (Dana Wynter). Divorce is looming as he nurtures a closer relationship with a co-worker, TGA customer relations agent Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg). Bakersfield's brother-in-law, Vernon Demarest (Dean Martin), is a TGA captain scheduled to be the checkride captain for TGA to evaluate Captain Anson Harris (Barry Nelson) during TGA's Flight 2 to Rome. Flight 2 is aboard TGA's flagship service craft, a Boeing 707 known as The Golden Argosy. Although Demarest is married to Bakersfield's sister, Sarah (Barbara Hale), he is secretly having an affair with Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bisset), chief stewardess on Flight 2, who informs him before the flight that she is pregnant with his child.
Critic's Choice (1963)
, 1h40Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films based on plays
Actors Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Rip Torn, Marilyn Maxwell, Jessie Royce Landis, Marie Windsor
Roles Charlotte Orr aka Charlie
Rating57%
Parker Ballantine is a theatrical critic, busily praising or disparaging the shows of Broadway. His wife Angela is feeling useless and restless, so she writes a play about her mother and sisters.
Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
, 1h44Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Sports films, Surfing films, Musical films
Actors Cindy Carol, James Darren, Don Porter, Jeff Donnell, Jessie Royce Landis, Cesare Danova
Roles Albertina Blythe
Rating50%
College-bound Gidget (Cindy Carol) is vacationing in Rome for the summer with faithful boyfriend Jeff, aka Moondoggie (James Darren) and their friends. Chaperoning the pair is Aunt Albertina (Jessie Royce Landis). However, Gidget's father Russell, worried about his daughter being abroad, asks an old friend of his, named Paolo Cellini, to keep an eye on Gidget to see that she stays out of trouble. Complications set in when Gidget begins to fall for the much older Paolo.
Bon Voyage! (1962)
, 2h10Directed by James Neilson, Joseph L. McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Georgette Anys
Roles Countessa 'La Comtesse' DuFresne
Rating56%
Le film met en scène la famille Willard dans un voyage en Europe. La famille traverse l'océan Atlantique à bord du SS United States.
Boys' Night Out (1962)
, 1h55Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Morris, Howard Duff, Janet Blair
Roles Ethel Williams
Rating64%
Three married men, George (Tony Randall), Doug (Howard Duff), and Howie (Howard Morris), and divorcé Fred (James Garner) are friends who commute to work from Greenwich, Connecticut, to New York City on the same train. Seeing Fred's philandering boss, Mr. Bingham (Larry Keating), with his mistress sets the men to fantasizing about sharing the expense of an apartment in the city as a love nest. As a gag, they give Fred the task of finding an unrealistically inexpensive apartment and a blonde "companion" to go with it.
Goodbye Again (1961)
, 2hDirected by Anatole Litvak
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, Jessie Royce Landis, Pierre Dux, Jocelyn Lane
Roles Mrs. Van der Besh
Rating69%
Paula Tessier (Bergman) is a 40-year-old interior designer who for the past five years has been the mistress of Roger Demarest (Montand), a "philandering business executive" who refuses to stop seeing other women. When Paula meets Philip (Perkins), the 25-year-old son of one of her wealthy clients, he falls in love with her and insists that the age difference will not matter. Paula resists the young man's advances, but finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young "Maisies". While she is initially happy with Philip, her friends and business associates disapprove of the May–December romance.
North by Northwest (1959)
, 2h16Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films, Films about marriage
Actors Cary Grant, Sol Gorss, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Clara Thornhill
Rating82%
Advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan and kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein), who take him to the Long Island estate of Lester Townsend. He is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is actually spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). Vandamm's "associate" Leonard (Martin Landau) intends to get rid of Thornhill once they finish questioning him.
A Private's Affair (1959)
, 1h33Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Military humor in film, Children's films
Actors Sal Mineo, Christine Carrère, Barry Coe, Barbara Eden, Jessie Royce Landis, Gary Crosby
Roles Elizabeth T. Chapman
Rating55%
Two guys from New York—Luigi, a hip wanna-be beatnik and Jerry, who's from Long Island—end up in Army basic training in New Jersey, as does Mike, who's a rancher from Oregon.
I Married a Woman (1958)
, 1h25Directed by Hal Kanter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou, Jessie Royce Landis, Nita Talbot, William Redfield
Roles Mrs. Blake
Rating54%
My Man Godfrey (1957)
, 1h32Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors June Allyson, David Niven, Jessie Royce Landis, Robert Keith, Herbert Anderson, Eva Gabor
Roles Angelica Bullock
Rating61%
Une héritière un peu loufoque prend pitié d'un homme qu'elle croit être à la rue. Elle insiste pour qu'il vienne avec elle et lui offre l'emploi de majordome, au grand dam de son père, surtout quand il devient clair qu'elle est en train de tomber amoureuse de lui. Mais ce nouveau majordome a un secret : il est en fait un riche aristocrate.
The Swan (1956)
, 1h44Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Jessie Royce Landis, Estelle Winwood, Brian Aherne
Roles Princess Beatrix
Rating64%
The film, set in 1910, deals with the story of the daughter of a minor branch of a European royal house who is being considered as a wife for her cousin, the heir to the throne.
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
, 1h43Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jessie Royce Landis, Jim Backus, Murray Hamilton, Fredd Wayne
Roles Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer
Rating52%
Andy Schaeffer is a spoiled mama's boy who usually gets his way. He breezes through college while girlfriend Susan Daniels studies hard while also working at a job to pay for her education.
To Catch a Thief (1955)
, 1h46Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel, Brigitte Auber
Roles Jessie Stevens
Rating73%
John Robie (Cary Grant) is a retired infamous jewel thief or "cat burglar", nicknamed "The Cat", who now tends to his vineyards in the French Riviera. The modus operandi of a recent series of robberies leads the police to believe that the Cat is involved; they attempt to arrest him, and he adeptly gives them the slip.
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
Directed by Tay Garnett, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Mary Murphy, Agnes Moorehead, Rosemary DeCamp, Lionel Barrymore, Herb Shriner, Tallulah Bankhead
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating60%
Meet Me Tonight (1952)
, 1h21Directed by Anthony Pelissier
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Anthology film
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Nigel Patrick, Ted Ray, Valerie Hobson, Kay Walsh, Jessie Royce Landis, Martita Hunt
Roles Olive Lloyd Ransome (segment "Ways and Means")
Rating61%
In "The Red Peppers", a husband and wife song and dance team (Kay Walsh, Ted Ray) bicker with each other, another performer (Martita Hunt), and the theatre manager (Frank Pettingell). In "Fumed Oak", a middle-aged man (Stanley Holloway) finally has enough of his wife, daughter, and mother-in-law (Betty Ann Davies, Dorothy Gordon, and Mary Merrall respectively). Having saved enough money secretly, he announces to his stunned family that he is leaving, never to see them again. In the final segment, "Ways and Means", a husband (Michael Trubshawe) informs his wife (Valerie Hobson) that he has gambled away their money, leaving little to pay their debts, especially to Olive (Jessie Royce Landis). They pawn their last few valuable possessions, hoping to win enough in the casino. However, Olive takes the seat the husband was waiting for and proceeds to win a great deal of money. When she gets up, he takes his rightful place and loses all he has. That night, the couple awake to find Olive's butler, Murdoch (Jack Warner), trying to steal from them. After laughing at him (since they have nothing worth the effort), the wife proposes he rob from his employer and split the money with them. Murdoch takes Olive's winnings, but double crosses the couple, only to end up caught by the police.