Elisabeth Risdon
Oyuncu · 1887 – 1958 · London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elisabeth Risdon (born Daisy Cartwright Risdon; 26 April 1887 – 20 December 1958) was an English film actress. She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1952. A beauty in her youth, she usually played in society parts. In later years in films she switched to playing character parts. Born in London, England, Risdon graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in 1918 with high honours. She attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw and was cast as the lead in his biggest plays. Besides her performances for Shaw, she was leading lady for actors including George Arliss, Otis Skinner, and William Faversham. She was also under contract to the Theatre Guild for many years. In later years, she taught drama to patients at a veterans administration hospital near her Brentwood home. She was married to the prolific silent film director George Loane Tucker who left her a widow in 1921. She later married actor Brandon Evans, who died in April 1958. She was the great-aunt of actress Wendy Barrie-Wilson. Risdon died in December 1958 in St Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California from a cerebral haemorrhage. Her body was donated to medical science.
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Film7.5SuçDramÜç adam I. Dünya Savaşı'nda birlikte savaştıktan sonra evlerine döndüklerinde yasakların hüküm sürdüğü Amerika'da hayatlarını kazanmaya çalışırlar.
Film6.0DramThis entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
At the Stroke of Twelve
1941 · 4 votes
Film7.5DramRomantikABD'nin büyük yönetmenlerinden birinin elinden çıkma bu türünün tek örneği başyapıtta, Victor Moore ve Beulah Bondi, evlerinin ellerinden alınması sonucunda orta yaştaki çocuklarının yanına sığınmak zorunda kalan yaşlı çift Bark ve Lucy Cooper'ı canlandırıyor. Çocukların ilk işi, onları ağırlama zahmetini paylaşmak için çifti ayırmak olur. Özgüvenleri ve özsaygıları gittikçe azalan ihtiyarlar, sonunda, birisinin New York'ta diğerinin Kaliforniya'da bir bakım evine yerleştirilmesi için yapılan ayarlamalara boyun eğerler.
Film7.1SuçDramGangster Roy Earle, uzun bir hapishane döneminden sonra şartlı salıverilir. Yine de, Earle’nin suçlu yaşamını bırakmaya hiç niyeti yoktur. Aslında bu şartlı salıverilme, yeni ve büyük bir soygun planlayan eski bir arkadaş tarafından düzenlenmiştir.
Film6.4MaceraAksiyonThe Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Reap the Wild Wind
1942 · 65 votes
Film7.0MaceraRomantikIn 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
Scaramouche
1952 · 108 votes
Film7.0KomediRomantikWorld War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
The Egg and I
1947 · 50 votes
Film5.9KomediRomantikAnabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948 · 30 votes
Film6.6WesternWhen Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.
Tall in the Saddle
1944 · 76 votes
Film7.3RomantikDramWandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
Random Harvest
1942 · 118 votes
Film6.7KomediAileA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Life with Father
1947 · 73 votes
Film7.0SuçDramGangster olan Bebek Yüzlü Martin, Doğu Yakasında gençliğinin geçtiği yerlere geri döner. Ne yazık ki bu dönüş onun için sadece bir hayal kırıklığı olacaktır çünkü annesi onu bir katil olarak görmektedir ve çocukluk aşkı fuhuşa düşmüştür...
Film6.7MaceraDramHuckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939 · 21 votes
Film5.9KomediDramComprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
It's a Big Country
1951 · 9 votes
Film6.3MaceraDramTwelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
Five Came Back
1939 · 42 votes
Film6.6DramTarihBeautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
The Howards of Virginia
1940 · 16 votes
Film6.4DramKomediIn 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
The Great Man Votes
1939 · 7 votes
Film6.7KomediDramA mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947 · 6 votes
Film6.7KomediDramA missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · 10 votes
Film6.5RomantikKomediBold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
The Lady Is Willing
1942 · 11 votes
Film6.9DramTarihAbe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940 · 28 votes
Film7.0DramIn World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
The Woman I Love
1937 · 1 votes
Film7.2AksiyonSuçAn accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942 · 4 votes
Film5.4KomediRomantikA pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942 · 7 votes