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Edna May Oliver

Edna May Oliver

​ She was born Edna May Nutter, a child of solid New England stock, on 9th November 1883 in Malden, Massachusetts. The daughter of Ida May and Charles Edward Nutter, Edna was a descendant of the 6th American president John Quincy Adams. Miss Oliver took an early interest in the stage, and she would quit school at the age of 14 to pursue her ambitions in the theater.

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Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl (1999)

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances. ...

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Lydia (1941)

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lyd ...

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Pride and Prejudice (1940)

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking t ...

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Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and ...

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Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edit ...

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Second Fiddle (1939)

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her. ...

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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them ...

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Little Miss Broadway (1938)

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage. ...

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Paradise for Three (1938)

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives. ...

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Rosalie (1937)

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom. ...

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My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)

A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters. ...

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Parnell (1937)

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom. ...

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Romeo and Juliet (1936)

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families. ...

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A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met. ...

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No More Ladies (1935)

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous. ...

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Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solv ...

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David Copperfield (1935)

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships. ...

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We're Rich Again (1934)

A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet. ...

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Murder on the Blackboard (1934)

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks ...

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The Last Gentleman (1934)

In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in him is his money, a ...

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The Poor Rich (1934)

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced ...

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Alice in Wonderland (1933)

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters. ...

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Little Women (1933)

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

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Only Yesterday (1933)

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World ...

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Meet the Baron (1933)

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school. ...

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Ann Vickers (1933)

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again. ...

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It's Great to Be Alive (1933)

An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus. ...

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The Great Jasper (1933)

Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. ...

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The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. ...

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The Conquerors (1932)

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire. ...

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Hold 'Em Jail (1932)

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team. ...

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Ladies of the Jury (1932)

Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox ...

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Fanny Foley Herself (1931)

A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters. ...

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Newly Rich (1931)

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids deci ...

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Cracked Nuts (1931)

To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes ...

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Laugh and Get Rich (1931)

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight. ...

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Cimarron (1931)

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a lea ...

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