
Mona Washbourne
Oyuncu · 1903 – 1988 · Solihull, Warwickshire, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist. In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968). She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978). In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease. Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940. She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.
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Film5.2MaceraAksiyonKüresel istikrarı sabotaj etmeye başlayan Smersh, 11'den fazla ajanın kaybolması ve sorunların daha kötüye gitmesi yanında en iyi ajanları 007 emekliliğine doğru ciddi bir şekilde güç kaybetmektedir. KGB'nin ve CIA'nın başındakilerle birlikte olan M'in sadece bir tek umudu vardır. Bay James Bond'u emeklilikten geri getirip işe el koymasını sağlamak. Ordu patlayıcıları ile donanımlı bayan ajanlar, Baccarat oynamayı bilen bir sihirbaz ve sinirli megalomanı karşısında bulan Bond'un zekice bir planı harekete sokması gerekmektedir. Baccarat ustası Evelyn Tremble komplonun kalbine gönderilmek için seçilir. Ancak ilk önce James Bond'un yetiştirme okuluna katılmak zorundadır. Müthiş karışıklık içerisinde sürprizlerle dolu macera başlar.
Casino Royale
1967 · 863 votes
Film7.5KomediRomantikProf. Higgins, yağmurlu bir gecede, Londra Covent Garden'daki operadan çıkan kalabalığın arasında çiçek satan, ağzı bozuk Eliza Doolittle'a rastlar. Hırçın ve kaba davranışlarıyla etrafa sataşmaktan kendini alamayan muzip genç kız, sadece argo değil, üstelik berbat bir aksanla da konuşmaktadır. Higgins, kendisi gibi bir dil bilimci olan dostu Albay Pickering ile bir bahse girer: Eliza üstüne para alarak profesörün evinde kalacak ve diksiyon kursları alacaktır. Higgins, genç kızı tamamen yola getireceğine ve Eliza'nın bir süre sonra gerçek bir hanımefendiden ayırt edilemeyeceğini iddia etmektedir. Bernard Shaw'ın 1912 tarihli oyunu Pygmalion'dan uyarlanan ve Broadway'de 1956-62 yılları arasında büyük sükse yapan My Fair Lady'nin başarısı, sahne müzikalini uyarlayan Alan Jay Lerner'in film yönetmeni George Cukor'la işbirliğini doğurdu. Eliza rolünün kariyerinin zirvesindeki Audrey Hepburn'e verilmesiyle de sinema tarihinin zafer anlarından biri tescillenmiş oldu.
Film6.7KorkuA young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
Film7.0KomediAn impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
The Million Pound Note
1954 · 86 votes
Film7.4GerilimFreddie geleceği olmayan beceriksiz bir banka memurudur. Tek hobisi kelebek toplamaktır, bu da ona normalde hayatında tamamen eksik olan güç ve kontrol duygusunu verir. Büyük miktarda para kazanır ve kendine bir kır evi satın alır. Hâlâ sosyal olarak rahat edemediğinden, tıpkı kelebek topladığı gibi bir kız arkadaş edinmenin planlarını yapmaya başlar. Evin bodrumunu toplama kavanozu olarak hazırlıyor ve kurbanını birkaç gün boyunca takip ediyor.
Film5.8DramRomantikWhen the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.
Betrayed
1954 · 23 votes
Film7.0Dram1968 yılında erkek öğrencilerin doldurduğu bir yatılı okuldayız. Eğitmenlerin katı kurallarıyla okulda yaşam oldukça disiplinli bir şekilde kurulmuştur. Mick ve arkadaşları bu baskıcı düzenin dışına çıktıkları, gizli bir kaçamak oadası yapmışlar ve burada özgürce davranmaktadırlar. Özgürlük alanlarını okulun geneline yaymaya kalktıklarında, okulun baskıcı otoritesiyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalırlar. Fakat ezilen öğrencilerin, hem eğitmenleri hem de okulu ziyarete gelen önemli konukları yakından ilgilendiren bir intikam planları vardır...
Film5.5MaceraAilePeasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
The Blue Bird
1976 · 30 votes
Film6.8KomediMüzikAn ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
O Lucky Man!
1973 · 121 votes
Film6.5KomediThe 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 immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
Doctor in the House
1954 · 31 votes
Film4.8KomediDramA 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.
The Old Curiosity Shop
1975 · 4 votes
Film5.9KomediBilim KurguIn the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · 55 votes
Film6.5GerilimEdward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955 · 62 votes
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Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves." Follows the work of a probation officer and the people he tries to help.
Film5.9GerilimSuçReformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate. Soon his whole life spins out of control.
Fragment of Fear
1970 · 39 votes
Film6.8KomediRomantikA young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
Billy Liar
1963 · 128 votes
Film6.7DramJohnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
No Love for Johnnie
1961 · 9 votes
Film6.9DramSuçLocked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Yield to the Night
1956 · 42 votes
Film6.4DramA mentally disturbed woman arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence, and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.
Identikit
1974 · 18 votes
Film5.8KomediUnder a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
To Dorothy, a Son
1954 · 9 votes
Film8.0DramTV MovieBritish television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe. Hopkins performance as Dickens saw him nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1971.
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970 · 1 votes
Film5.6SuçGerilimA greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.
The Gambler and the Lady
1952 · 14 votes
Film5.1KomediMüzikHerman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a national invitational, Herman and his friends find work in a pop group, and Herman falls in love.
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968 · 7 votes
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Dizi6.6DramPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Play for Today
1970 · 10 votes
Dizi5.3DramMatinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
Matinee Theater
1955 · 7 votes
Dizi7.0DramITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
ITV Playhouse
1967 · 3 votes
Dizi4.2DramAn anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · 8 votes
Dizi7.0Anthology series of dramatic works.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · 3 votes
Dizi7.0DramAnthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973 · 1 votes
Dizi7.9Aksiyon ve MaceraAnimasyonWalt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · 36 votes
Dizi7.8DramAgnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.
Brideshead Revisited
1981 · 73 votes
Dizi10.0DramSix Days of Justice is a British television drama anthology series of single plays created by Thames Television and shown on ITV from 1972 to 1975, over four seasons of six episodes apiece.
Six Days of Justice
1972 · 1 votes
DiziDramDramas about women who made the headlines of Victorian newspapers.
Wicked Women
1970
Dizi7.2Bilim Kurgu ve FantastikKomediShillingbury Tales is a 1980–81 British sitcom produced by Associated Television for ITV. Comprising a single feature length pilot and six one-hour episodes, the series deals with life in an idealised fictional English village and stars Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Nigel Lambert, Jack Douglas, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Cribbins and Trevor Howard. The series was written by Francis Essex and directed by Val Guest. Unusual for the time, it was shot entirely on location in the village of Aldbury in Hertfordshire on 16mm and consequently there was no laugh track. The show ended when ATV lost their licence to broadcast and their replacement Central declined to continue production.
Shillingbury Tales
1981 · 5 votes
Dizi6.0DramArmchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6 votes
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Yorkshire Television's Celebrity Playhouse anthology series.
Dizi5.5DramTherese, an attractive young woman married to her sickly cousin Camille, leads an extremely monotonous life until Camille brings home Laurent, an old schoolmate.
Therese Raquin
1980 · 10 votes