Ellaline Terriss
Actor · 1871 – 1971 · Stanley, Falkland Islands
From Wikipedia Mary Ellaline Terriss, Lady Hicks (13 April 1871 – 16 June 1971), known professionally as Ellaline Terriss, was a popular English actress and singer, best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies. She met and married the actor-producer Seymour Hicks in 1893, and the two collaborated on many projects for the stage and screen. Terriss appeared in over a dozen British films, generally in which her husband was involved as an actor, writer or director. These included the silent films Scrooge (1913), David Garrick (1913), Flame of Passion (1915), A Woman of the World (1916), Masks and Faces (1918), Always Tell Your Wife (1923), Land of Hope and Glory (1927). She made a successful transition to talkies, including Blighty (1927), Atlantic (1929), A Man of Mayfair (1931), Glamour (1931), The Iron Duke (1934), Royal Cavalcade (1935) and The Four Just Men (1939). She died in Hampstead, England, at the age of 100.
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Movie6.9DramaFantasyA 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge.
Scrooge
1913 · 8 votes
Movie5.2ComedyA British short comedy about two married couples whose romantic entanglements lead to farcical complications. When the original director Hugh Croise fell ill, Alfred Hitchcock and Seymour Hicks completed the film. Released in 1923 as a remake of the 1914 Leedham Bantock version, only one of its two reels is known to survive.
Always Tell Your Wife
1923 · 4 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerMysteryThe Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
The Four Just Men
1939 · 6 votes
- Movie8.0DramaWar
A girl saves her fiancé's stabiliser plans from spies.
Land of Hope and Glory
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyMusic'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
Man of Mayfair
1931 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaThe Duke of Wellington’s attempt to restore peace to France is threatened by a French Duchess.
The Iron Duke
1934 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DramaEnglish-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.
Atlantic
1929 · 12 votes
- Movie4.5Comedy
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
Masks and Faces
1917 · 2 votes
Movie8.0WarDramaA chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
Blighty
1927 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
Glamour
1931 · 1 votes