Eileen Herlie
Actor · 1918 – 2008 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Movies13
Movie7.4DramaWinner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
Hamlet
1948 · 300 votes
Movie6.5DramaAn examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962 · 82 votes
Movie6.9A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
Hamlet
1964 · 6 votes
Movie6.3RomanceDramaFilm adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
The Sea Gull
1968 · 11 votes
Movie7.0TV MovieDramaThe love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.
The Woman I Love
1972 · 1 votes
Movie6.6ComedyBridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.
She Didn't Say No!
1958 · 5 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceIn postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
For Better, for Worse
1954 · 10 votes
Movie5.4ComedyAround the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
Isn't Life Wonderful!
1953 · 7 votes
Movie7.0DramaSad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.
The Angel with the Trumpet
1950 · 4 votes
Movie5.8DramaLife becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Hungry Hill
1947 · 6 votes
Movie5.0DramaMusicThe career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
1953 · 3 votes
- MovieComedy
Can the ever-resilient Mrs. Levi melt the heart of the eternally sour-tempered Mr. Vandergelder?
The Matchmaker
1954
Movie10.0DramaTV MovieA perceptive and funny study about the fantasies, inhibitions and dreams of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons who set up competing lemonade stands along a jammed highway. This short play incorporates comedy and tragedy, a touch of the bizarre, and ultimately, a sincere compassion in both women.
Lemonade
1971 · 1 votes