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Muriel Angelus is a Actor British born on 10 march 1909 at London (United-kingdom)
Muriel Angelus (10 March 1912 – 26 June 2004) was an English stage, musical theatre and film actress.
Born Muriel E S M Findlay in Lambeth, South London, to Scottish parentage, she developed a sweet-voiced soprano at an early age. She made her debut on stage at the age of twelve, appearing in a play she had written herself called The Sister Key. She went on to sing in music halls and to dance in a West End production of The Vagabond King (1927).
She entered films toward the end of the silent era with The Ringer (1928), the first of three movie versions of the Edgar Wallace play. Her second film, Sailor Don't Care (1928) was important only in that she met her first husband, Scots-born actor John Stuart on the set; her role was excised from the film.
Though in her first sound picture, Night Birds (1930), she got to sing a number, most of her films did not use her musical talents. The sweet-natured actress who played both ingenues and 'other woman' roles co-starred with husband Stuart in No Exit (1930), Eve's Fall (1930) and Hindle Wakes (1931), and appeared with British star Monty Banks in some of his film farces, including My Wife's Family (1931) and So You Won't Talk (1935). Muriel received a career lift with the glossy musical London hit Balalaika.
This led to her securing the pivotal role of Adriana in the original Broadway production of The Boys From Syracuse, co-starring Eddie Albert. In turn, she received a contract with Paramount Pictures, but never became a star and is largely remembered solely by the acting buffs and nostalgists. Her last known film role was in The Great McGinty (1940). She then revived her Broadway career and had a great success in the musical comedy, Early to Bed (1943). Her final performance came in 1946, after her marriage to Paul Lavalle. In 1959 she resisted the efforts of Richard Rodgers to secure her for the part of the Mother Abbess in the first Broadway production of The Sound of Music.
Interviewed in 1996, she said it had been a mistake for her to leave England. "I was caught up in the glamour, but once in Hollywood I was nothing more than a tiny craft battling in an ocean beside much weightier ships."
Angelus died at a nursing home in Harrisonburg, Virginia, aged 92, survived by her daughter from her second marriage.
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Birth name Muriel E S M Findlay
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 10 march 1909 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 26 june 2004 (at 95 years) at Harrisonburg (USA)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 10 march 1909 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 26 june 2004 (at 95 years) at Harrisonburg (USA)
Born Muriel E S M Findlay in Lambeth, South London, to Scottish parentage, she developed a sweet-voiced soprano at an early age. She made her debut on stage at the age of twelve, appearing in a play she had written herself called The Sister Key. She went on to sing in music halls and to dance in a West End production of The Vagabond King (1927).
She entered films toward the end of the silent era with The Ringer (1928), the first of three movie versions of the Edgar Wallace play. Her second film, Sailor Don't Care (1928) was important only in that she met her first husband, Scots-born actor John Stuart on the set; her role was excised from the film.
Though in her first sound picture, Night Birds (1930), she got to sing a number, most of her films did not use her musical talents. The sweet-natured actress who played both ingenues and 'other woman' roles co-starred with husband Stuart in No Exit (1930), Eve's Fall (1930) and Hindle Wakes (1931), and appeared with British star Monty Banks in some of his film farces, including My Wife's Family (1931) and So You Won't Talk (1935). Muriel received a career lift with the glossy musical London hit Balalaika.
This led to her securing the pivotal role of Adriana in the original Broadway production of The Boys From Syracuse, co-starring Eddie Albert. In turn, she received a contract with Paramount Pictures, but never became a star and is largely remembered solely by the acting buffs and nostalgists. Her last known film role was in The Great McGinty (1940). She then revived her Broadway career and had a great success in the musical comedy, Early to Bed (1943). Her final performance came in 1946, after her marriage to Paul Lavalle. In 1959 she resisted the efforts of Richard Rodgers to secure her for the part of the Mother Abbess in the first Broadway production of The Sound of Music.
Interviewed in 1996, she said it had been a mistake for her to leave England. "I was caught up in the glamour, but once in Hollywood I was nothing more than a tiny craft battling in an ocean beside much weightier ships."
Angelus died at a nursing home in Harrisonburg, Virginia, aged 92, survived by her daughter from her second marriage.
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Add to a movie listThe Great McGinty (1940)
, 1h22Directed by Preston Sturges, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Allyn Joslyn, Jimmy Conlin
Roles Catharine McGinty
Rating72%
Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a bartender in a banana republic who recounts his rise and fall to the bar's dancing girl and an American customer. The customer was a trusted bank employee who can no longer return to the United States and his family because he is wanted by the law after falling to temptation and stealing from the bank. McGinty is in a similar situation, but in his case it is due to "one crazy minute" of honesty rather than one of dishonesty. In a long flashback, he explains.
Safari (1940)
Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Madeleine Carroll, Tullio Carminati, Muriel Angelus, Lynne Overman, Clinton Rosemond
Roles Fay Thorne
Rating61%
The Way of All Flesh (1940)
, 1h26Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George, William Henry, Muriel Angelus, Berton Churchill, Roger Imhof
Roles Mary Brown
Rating72%
The Light That Failed (1939)
, 1h39Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino, Ronald Sinclair, Dudley Digges
Roles Maisie
Rating65%
In 1865, youngster Dick Heldar is briefly blinded when his girlfriend Maisie accidentally fires his pistol too close to his head. She later tells him that her guardians are sending her away somewhere to be educated, but she agrees when he says she belongs to him "forever and ever".
So You Won't Talk (1935)
Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy
Actors Monty Banks, Bertha Belmore, Enid Stamp Taylor, Muriel Angelus, Ralph Ince, Claude Dampier
Roles Katrina
Detective Lloyd (1932)
Directed by Ray Taylor, Henry MacRae
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Muriel Angelus, Janice Adair, Emily Fitzroy, Gibb McLaughlin, John Turnbull
Roles Sybil Craig
Rating39%
Don't Be a Dummy (1932)
, 54minutesOrigin United-kingdom
Actors William Austin, Muriel Angelus, Garry Marsh
Roles Lady Diana Summers
Blind Spot (1932)
, 1h15Directed by Jean Daumery
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Percy Marmont, Muriel Angelus, Warwick Ward
Roles Marilyn Janney
Hindle Wakes (1931)
, 1h19Directed by Victor Saville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Belle Chrystall, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel, Mary Clare, Sybil Thorndike, Edmund Gwenn
Roles Beatrice Farrar
Rating65%
Lancashire mill-girls Jenny Hawthorne (Chrystall) and Mary Hollins (Ruth Peterson) go on holiday to Blackpool during the annual wakes week in their hometown of Hindle. They run into Alan Jeffcote (Stuart), the son of the owner of the mill in which they work, who has also traveled to Blackpool with a group of friends while his fiancée is detained on business in London. Jenny and Alan hit it off immediately, and he persuades her to leave Blackpool to spend the week with him at Llandudno in North Wales. To cover her tracks, Jenny leaves a postcard with Mary, asking her to send it to her parents (Edmund Gwenn and Sybil Thorndike) later in the week. She and Alan leave their friends and set off for Wales.
Let's Love and Laugh (1931)
Directed by Richard Eichberg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Gene Gerrard, Muriel Angelus, Frank Stanmore, Dennis Wyndham
Roles The Bride Who Was
My Wife's Family (1931)
, 1h20Directed by Monty Banks
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Amy Veness, Gene Gerrard, Jimmy Godden, Muriel Angelus, Charles Paton, Tom Helmore
Roles Peggy Gay
Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow understands him to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.
Night Birds (1930)
, 1h37Directed by Richard Eichberg
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Raine, Muriel Angelus, Jameson Thomas, Eve Gray, Garry Marsh, Harry Terry
Roles Dolly Mooreland
Rating56%
No Exit (1930)
, 1h9Directed by Charles Saunders
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors John Stuart, Muriel Angelus
Roles Ann Ansell
The Infamous Lady (1928)
Directed by Geoffrey Barkas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Arthur Wontner, Muriel Angelus, Dora Barton
Roles The Girl
The Ringer (1928)
, 1h26Directed by Arthur Maude
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Lawson Butt, Nigel Barrie, John F. Hamilton, Muriel Angelus
Roles Mary Lenley