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Amy Veness

Amy Veness

Amy Veness (26 February 1876 – 22 September 1960) was a British film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in The Huggetts Trilogy.

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Doctor in the House (1954)

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immer ...

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Angels One Five (1952)

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the ...

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The Magic Box (1952)

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a ...

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Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951)

In 1830s England, Tom Brown attends a rugby boys' school, where his moral and personal growth is formed through friendship, bullying–particularly from the cruel Flashman–and the influence of headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold. ...

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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels. ...

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Portrait of Clare (1950)

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young. ...

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The Woman with No Name (1950)

This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia. ...

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Chance of a Lifetime (1950)

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out. ...

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The Astonished Heart (1950)

Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... ...

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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts. ...

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The Huggetts Abroad (1949)

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across th ...

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Vote for Huggett (1949)

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center. ...

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Here Come the Huggetts (1948)

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory. ...

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My Brother's Keeper (1948)

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of b ...

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Oliver Twist (1948)

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his cr ...

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Bond Street (1948)

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London's thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng. ...

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Good-Time Girl (1948)

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result. ...

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Blanche Fury (1948)

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blan ...

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The Master of Bankdam (1947)

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam. ...

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The Turners of Prospect Road (1947)

A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby. ...

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Don Chicago (1945)

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society. ...

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They Were Sisters (1945)

The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband. ...

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Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and he ...

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The World Owes Me a Living (1945)

When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together. ...

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Don't Take It to Heart (1944)

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ...

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This Happy Breed (1944)

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second. ...

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Fanny by Gaslight (1944)

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies s ...

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The Man in Grey (1943)

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband. ...

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Millions Like Us (1943)

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a rela ...

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This England (1941)

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't ...

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Just William (1940)

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investi ...

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Flying Fifty-Five (1939)

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he's really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken f ...

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The Show Goes On (1937)

A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs. ...

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Aren't Men Beasts! (1937)

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father! ...

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The Mill on the Floss (1937)

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin. ...

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Black Roses (1936)

Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after several years in Hollywood. The delectable Harvey plays a Russian ballerina, stranded in turn-of-the-century F ...

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Windbag the Sailor (1936)

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who me ...

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Crime Over London (1936)

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store. ...

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The Beloved Vagabond (1936)

Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both! ...

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Joy Ride (1935)

Two cousins invite their girlfriends on a joy-ride, but car trouble leads to catastrophe! ...

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Play Up the Band (1935)

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition. ...

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Drake of England (1935)

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title ro ...

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The Old Curiosity Shop (1934)

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee. ...

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Lorna Doone (1934)

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna. ...

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A Southern Maid (1934)

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure. ...

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Red Wagon (1933)

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith's novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus. ...

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The Love Nest (1933)

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond. ...

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Hawleys of High Street (1933)

A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council. ...

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Let Me Explain, Dear (1933)

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket! ...

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Their Night Out (1933)

An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang! ...

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Pyjamas Preferred (1932)

In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub. ...

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Flat No. 9 (1932)

A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson ...

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The Marriage Bond (1932)

A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is. ...

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Murder on the Second Floor (1932)

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants... ...

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Self Made Lady (1932)

Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashion designer. ...

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Money for Nothing (1932)

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a ...

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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On (1931)

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds. ...

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Hobson's Choice (1931)

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler. ...

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My Wife's Family (1931)

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child. ...

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