Phyllis Barry
Actor · 1908 – 1954 · Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Phyllis Barry (born Gertrude Phyllis Hillyard, 7 December 1908 – 1 July 1954) was an English film actress. Born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Seth Henry and Bertha (née Giles) Hillyard, Barry appeared in over 40 films between 1925 and 1947.
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Movie7.5DramaRomanceOn the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Waterloo Bridge
1940 · 184 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceLife in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
Camille
1936 · 157 votes
Movie6.7ComedyStan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Bonnie Scotland
1935 · 73 votes
Movie6.8AdventureDramaTwo boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
The Prince and the Pauper
1937 · 42 votes
Movie6.3ComedyA sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.
Good-bye Love
1933 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaCharles Farrell stars as a British working stiff named Niba, who hopes one day to attain a Parliamentary seat. Niba's life is permanently altered when he rescues forlorn American girl Ann (Charlotte Henry). Though forced to give up his political dreams, Niba contentedly sets up house with Ann, eventually falling in love with her.
Forbidden Heaven
1935 · 1 votes
Movie5.7DramaRomancePickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Kitty
1945 · 13 votes
Movie4.3MysteryThrillerArmy Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
The Invisible Menace
1938 · 12 votes
Movie6.9CrimeDramaA British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
We Are Not Alone
1939 · 6 votes
Movie6.5DramaCrimePosing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
I Was an Adventuress
1940 · 10 votes
Movie5.7DramaMary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
To Mary - with Love
1936 · 3 votes
Movie6.2ActionCrimeDrummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937 · 15 votes
Movie5.8RomanceAdventureAn English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Frenchman's Creek
1944 · 23 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
Three Little Sew and Sews
1939 · 13 votes
Movie7.5ComedyBarbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
Diplomaniacs
1933 · 4 votes
Movie5.1DramaRomanceA London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
Cynara
1932 · 14 votes
Movie5.0ComedySuave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
One Rainy Afternoon
1936 · 12 votes
Movie10.0AdventureComedyFather goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceStarting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her.
Unfinished Business
1941 · 4 votes
Movie6.4RomanceComedyAfter committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Trade Winds
1938 · 8 votes
Movie5.7CrimeDramaSandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
The Case of the Black Parrot
1941 · 5 votes
Movie5.7ComedyWhen Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
What! No Beer?
1933 · 12 votes
Movie5.9HorrorMysteryThe citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
The Mysterious Doctor
1943 · 13 votes
Movie6.4ComedyMusicA waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees this and transforms him into "Kid Nightingale," marketing him as a boxer who sings.
Kid Nightingale
1939 · 4 votes