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Moyna MacGill is a Actor British born on 8 december 1895 at Belfast (United-kingdom)
Moyna Macgill (10 December 1895 – 25 November 1975) was an Irish stage and film actress and the mother of actress Angela Lansbury and producers Edgar Lansbury and Bruce Lansbury.
Après un petit rôle non crédité dans un cinquième film britannique (Pygmalion en 1938), Moyna MacGill part aux États-Unis (où elle s'installe définitivement) en 1942, à cause de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Dans son pays d'adoption, elle contribue à dix-neuf films américains à partir de 1943 (outre un sixième film britannique en 1949). Les trois derniers (également dans des petits rôles non crédités) sont Les Misérables de Lewis Milestone, sorti en 1952, puis La Reine du Colorado de Charles Walters et My Fair Lady de George Cukor, sortis en 1964, année où elle se retire.
Mère d'Angela Lansbury (née en 1925), elle tourne trois films à ses côtés, Le Grand National de Clarence Brown (1944), Le Portrait de Dorian Gray d'Albert Lewin (1945), et enfin Kind Lady de John Sturges (1951).
Pour la télévision, Moyna MacGill participe à neuf séries (les trois premières en 1952), dont un épisode de La Quatrième Dimension, diffusé en 1962. Elle se produit pour la dernière fois au petit écran dans un épisode de Mon Martien favori, diffusé en 1964.
Mentionnons encore son unique prestation à Broadway (New York), dans la comédie musicale The Boy Friend (adaptée au cinéma en 1971), représentée en 1954-1955, avec Julie Andrews faisant alors ses débuts sur les planches new-yorkaises.
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Moyna MacGill
Birth name Charlotte Lillian McIldowie
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 8 december 1895 at Belfast (United-kingdom)
Death 25 november 1975 (at 79 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 8 december 1895 at Belfast (United-kingdom)
Death 25 november 1975 (at 79 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
Sous le pseudonyme de Moyna MacGill, elle débute au théâtre en 1918 à Londres, où elle joue à plusieurs reprises, notamment en 1927 dans Interference, avec Gerald du Maurier et Herbert Marshall. Toujours en Angleterre, elle apparaît au cinéma dans quatre films muets sortis de 1920 à 1924.Après un petit rôle non crédité dans un cinquième film britannique (Pygmalion en 1938), Moyna MacGill part aux États-Unis (où elle s'installe définitivement) en 1942, à cause de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Dans son pays d'adoption, elle contribue à dix-neuf films américains à partir de 1943 (outre un sixième film britannique en 1949). Les trois derniers (également dans des petits rôles non crédités) sont Les Misérables de Lewis Milestone, sorti en 1952, puis La Reine du Colorado de Charles Walters et My Fair Lady de George Cukor, sortis en 1964, année où elle se retire.
Mère d'Angela Lansbury (née en 1925), elle tourne trois films à ses côtés, Le Grand National de Clarence Brown (1944), Le Portrait de Dorian Gray d'Albert Lewin (1945), et enfin Kind Lady de John Sturges (1951).
Pour la télévision, Moyna MacGill participe à neuf séries (les trois premières en 1952), dont un épisode de La Quatrième Dimension, diffusé en 1962. Elle se produit pour la dernière fois au petit écran dans un épisode de Mon Martien favori, diffusé en 1964.
Mentionnons encore son unique prestation à Broadway (New York), dans la comédie musicale The Boy Friend (adaptée au cinéma en 1971), représentée en 1954-1955, avec Julie Andrews faisant alors ses débuts sur les planches new-yorkaises.
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My Fair Lady (1964)
, 2h46Directed by George Cukor, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Marni Nixon, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper
Roles Lady Boxington
Rating76%
In Edwardian London, Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. In Covent Garden one evening he boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), himself an expert in phonetics, that he could teach any person to speak in a way that he could pass them off as a duke or duchess at an embassy ball. Higgins selects as an example a young flower seller, Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who has a strong Cockney accent. Eliza's ambition is to work in a flower shop, but her thick accent makes her unsuitable. Having come from India to meet Higgins, Pickering is invited to stay with the professor. The following morning, Eliza shows up at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all expenses if the experiment should be successful.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
, 2h8Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Biography, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Hermione Baddeley, Martita Hunt, Fred Essler
Roles Lady Prindale (uncredited)
Rating65%
Rescued from the Colorado River as an infant and raised by Shamus Tobin, tomboy Molly Brown is determined to find a wealthy man to marry. She journeys to Leadville, Colorado and is hired as a saloon singer by Christmas Morgan. After miner Johnny Brown renovates his cabin, the two wed, and he sells his claim in a silver mine for $300,000. Soon after the money Molly hid in the stove accidentally is burned, Johnny discovers the richest gold vein in state history.
Les Miserables (1952)
, 1h41Directed by Lewis Milestone, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell
Roles Une religieuse
Rating67%
The film greatly differs from the novel. Entire episodes and many characters are dropped, including the Thénardiers and Enjolras. The character of Robert is entirely new.
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
, 1h6Directed by Robert Siodmak, Curt Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney, Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway, Paul Cavanagh, Woody Strode
Roles Mme. Van Heusen
Rating44%
Deep in the South American jungles, plantation manager Barney Chavez (Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife Dina Van Gelder (Payton). However, old native witch Al-Long (Gisela Werbisek) witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney, who soon after finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla. When a wise but superstitious police commissioner Taro (Chaney) is brought in to investigate the plantation owner's death and a rash of strange animal killings, he begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. Dina is also becoming suspicious of Barney, who seems to be more in love with the jungle than with her. She follows him one night into the jungle, only to be attacked by the feral Barney. The police chief follows her screams in the jungle and shoots Barney.
Kind Lady (1951)
, 1h18Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury, Keenan Wynn, Betsy Blair, John Williams
Roles Mrs. Harkley
Rating70%
A seemingly kind painter, Henry Elcott, tricks wealthy art collector Mary Herries into letting him, his wife Ada and their baby live in her London home. Ada has collapsed and a doctor claims it is best she not be moved. It turns out to be a diabolical scheme by Elcott to sell off the artwork of Mrs. Herries and everything else of value she owns while holding her and her housemaid Rose captive in their bedrooms. Elcott's accomplices, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, take over as the butler and maid. Elcott masquerades as the lady's nephew, come to take care of her affairs due to a sudden mental breakdown.
Private Angelo (1949)
, 1h46Directed by Peter Ustinov, Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Peter Ustinov, Godfrey Tearle, María Denis, Marjorie Rhodes, James Robertson Justice, Moyna MacGill
Roles Marchesa Dolce
Rating72%
Private Angelo (1949)
, 1h46Directed by Peter Ustinov, Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Godfrey Tearle, Peter Ustinov, María Denis, Marjorie Rhodes, James Robertson Justice, Moyna MacGill
Roles Marchesa Dolce
Rating72%
Angelo est un soldat couard qui hérite d'un château en Italie. Il se retrouve involontairement impliqué dans la recherche du propriétaire du château par les Allemands, et même dans la marche sur Rome.
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
, 1h16Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, James Dunn, Michael Chekhov, Florence Bates, Lionel Stander
Roles Pearl Cheever
Rating59%
Eddie Tayloe (Madison) is a reporter assigned to the Ft. Worth desk of a Dallas newspaper, and as the two neighboring cities are feuding, therefore has nothing to do. He dreams of becoming a New York playwright, and a small inheritance from his grandfather gives him his chance. Quitting his job, he begins the long drive. Picking up hitchhiker Perry Denklin (Lynn), also looking for fame and fortune in New York, he shares with her encounters with various eccentric characters. The big city does not work out for either of them, and when Eddie finds Perry working in a Coney Island girlie show, he pulls her out and they find happiness together, buying a ranch back in Texas.
Three Daring Daughters (1948)
, 1h55Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, José Iturbi, Jane Powell, Edward Arnold, Harry Davenport, Ann E. Todd
Roles Mrs. Smith
Rating61%
It's Tess' graduation day from "Miss Drakes School for Girls". During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful, divorcee mother, Louise Rayton Morgan isn't there. Louise, an editor for Modern Design Publication, is lying in Dr. Cannon's office from fainting due to being over-worked and stressed-out. At home after the graduation ceremony, Dr. Cannon has a talk with Louise's three daughters, Tess, Ilka and Alix. He tells them that their mother needs a vacation badly, but the only way she can relax is if she goes without the girls. The girls agree, but Louise is reluctant; however, the girls convince her to go. The girls see their mother off on her one month Cuban cruise. When the girls get home they discuss their mother, and believe if they bring their father back home it will make their mom happy and healthy again. In reality, Louise has kept the truth about their father from them. Their father was actually a very uncaring man, who left them and left Louise to raise the girls on her own. The girls go to see their father's boss, Robert Nelson to locate their father and bring him home. Meanwhile on Louise's Cuban cruise, she meets famed pianist and conductor, Jose Iturbi. Jose is immediately taken by Louise, but she plays hard to get, while having the time of her life. When Louise finally returns home, she has a secret to tell the girls, but, the girls have a secret too.
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
, 2h21Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Richard Hart, Frank Morgan, Edmund Gwenn
Roles Mrs. Metivier
Rating67%
In the 1840s, on an island in the English Channel, two sisters, Marguerite (Donna Reed) and Marianne Patourel (Lana Turner), daughters of the wealthy Octavius Patourel (Edmund Gwenn), fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne (Richard Hart).
Black Beauty (1946)
, 1h14Directed by Max Nosseck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Mona Freeman, Richard Denning, Evelyn Ankers, J. M. Kerrigan, Moyna MacGill, Terry Kilburn
Roles Mrs. Blake
Rating59%
The story picks up in 1880s England, when widower Squire Wendon's (Charles Evans) mare Duchess is about to give birth to a foal. He has denied his adolescent daughter Anne (Mona Freeman) to watch, but the girl sneaks into the stables and watches anyway.
National Velvet (1945)
, 2h3Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Reginald Owen
Roles une femme
Rating72%
National Velvet is the story of a 12-year-old girl, Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives in the small town of Sewels in Sussex, England, who wins a spirited gelding in a raffle and decides to train him for the Grand National steeplechase. She is aided by a penniless young drifter named Mi (or Michael) Taylor (Mickey Rooney), who found Mrs. Brown's name and address among his late father's effects, but is unaware of what it was doing there. Hoping to gain some money from the association, Mi stays at the Browns' home, but Mrs. Brown is unwilling to allow Mi to trade on his father's good name and remains vague about how she knew him. Nevertheless she convinces her husband (Donald Crisp) to hire Mi over his better judgment, and Mi is brought into the home as a hired hand. It is revealed that Mi had been a jockey in Manchester, but his career ended in a collision which resulted in the death of another jockey. Since then Mi has not held a job, and he has come to hate horses. Velvet's horse is named "The Pie," short for "Pirate," the epithet given him by his owner due to the horse jumping clear of his paddock and wrecking things in the village. The man decides to be rid of the Pie, and offers him up in a raffle. Velvet wins The Pie, and on realizing the extent of the horses natural talent, she pleads with Mi to train the horse for the Grand National. He believes it a fools errand, not because of the horse, but because they have no real way to support the effort. He makes his case to Mrs. Brown, but she consents to Velvet's desire to train the horse. Velvet and Mi train the horse and enter him into the race. An experienced jockey is hired to ride him. The night before the race Velvet senses that the jockey hired to ride The Pie has no faith in him, and doesn't believe the horse can win. Velvet convinces Mi to fire the jockey, leaving them without a rider. That night Mi determines to overcome his fears and ride The Pie himself. Instead, he discovers that Velvet has slipped on the jockey's colors, and intends to ride the horse in the race herself. Aware of the dangers of such a race, Mi pleads with Velvet but is unable to dissuade her. As the race unfolds Velvet and The Pie avoid a number of falls, clear all the hurdles and win the race. Elated by their win, Velvet faints and falls off her mount at the finish. As she is revived the race doctor realizes she is not a young man, but a young woman. As such she and The Pie are disqualified, but Velvet knows The Pie proved himself. Velvet becomes a media sensation, declining an offer of £5,000 to travel to Hollywood with The Pie to be filmed. She ran the Pie at the Grand National because he deserved to have a chance. He wasn't an oddity to be stared at. In refusing the offer she states simply: "He wouldn't like being looked at." At the close of the film Mi takes his leave, and Mrs. Brown gives Velvet permission to reveal to him the nature of her relationship with his father. Velvet rides off to catch up with Mi and tell him that his father had been Mrs. Brown's coach when she won the prize as the first woman to swim the English Channel, many years before.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
, 1h49Directed by Albert Lewin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Peinture
Actors George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Lowell Gilmore
Roles Duchess
Rating74%
Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) is a handsome, wealthy young man living in 19th century London. While generally intelligent, he is naive and easily manipulated. These faults lead to his spiral into sin and, ultimately, misery.
, 1h20Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Hester Quincy
Rating66%
Harry Quincy (Sanders) is an amiable middle-aged man working as a designer in a fabric mill in the small town of Corinth. Younger people in the factory call him "Uncle Harry". He lives as a bachelor in a large house with his two sisters; Lettie (Fitzgerald) and Hester (MacGill). Lettie is pretty but spoiled, and idles days away in bed, feigning numerous ailments. Hester is a widow and is harder working. It is made clear that although the family was rich, the money was lost in the Depression.
The Clock (1945)
, 1h30Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Lucile Gleason
Roles Patron at Diner
Rating72%
A soldier, Joe Allen (Walker), on a 48-hour leave, meets Alice Mayberry (Garland) in Pennsylvania Station when she trips over his foot and breaks the heel off one of her shoes.