Biography: Edith Evans |
Formidable English character actress Edith Evans was celebrated for her unique voice and speech pattern. As a young woman, she held down a job while studying acting at night. In 1912 she made her professional stage debut, going on to become famous for... more
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The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
Tags: Musical Fantasy Romance Fantasy Romantic Fantasy
Length: 146min
Filmed in Austria, this British-made musical retells the story of Cinderella as it is found in books of fairy tales. The Prince, Edward, is played by Richard Chamberlain, Cinderella by Gemma Craven. In her role as the Prince's witty mother, Dame Edith...
Cast: Albert Finney Alec Guinness Kenneth More
Tags: Musical Fantasy Musical Fantasy
Length: 86min
Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' -Oliver Twist. The umpteenth musical version of Dickens' 1843 novelette -A Christmas Carol, Scrooge features several sprightly Leslie Bricusse...
Cast: Dick Van Dyke John Williams
Length: 102min
When an aging philanthropist falls on hard times, her butler starts to rob the rich so that she can keep on giving to the poor in this comedy. Claude Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke), known to his friends as "Fitzwilly," works as a butler for Victoria...
Cast: John Barry
Tags: Psychological Drama Crime Drama Drama
Length: 106min
The Whisperers stars Dame Edith Evans as a lonely old woman whose imagination is getting the better of her sanity. She insists that she hears "whisperers" plotting and planning against her at all times; she also believes that these imaginary entities...
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn Yul Brynner Edith Evans Danny Kaye Charles Boyer
Length: 142min
Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final result falls short despite the talents of the celebrated thespians. The madwoman in question is the extremely eccentric Countess...
Cast: John Ford Julie Christie
Length: 110min
Young Cassidy is based upon the autobiographical writings of firebrand Irish author Sean O'Casey. Rod Taylor is Cassidy, a boisterous boy who digs ditches to support his mother (Flora Robson) and sister (Sian Phillips). In his spare time, Cassidy is...
Cast: Richard Attenborough Laurence Olivier
Tags: Period Film Childhood Drama Drama
Length: 118min
This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted...
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 106min
This film adaptation of Edith Bagnold's play stars Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal, the secretive new governess of British "problem child" Laurel (Hayley Mills). Both Madrigal and faithful butler Maitland (John Mills) are aware that Laurel's atrocious...
Cast: Orson Welles
Length: 90min
This colorful documentary covers the history of the Basilica in the Cathedral of St. Peters in Vatican City. Ralph Richardson is the eloquent tour guide, with Orson Welles portraying Michaelangelo and Edith Evans plays Queen Christian, the Swedish...
Cast: Cesar Romero
Length: 106min
Herbie Hassler (Telly Savalas) and Marty Miller (Warren Oates) are American gangsters who plan to rob an opulent aristocratic home of valuable art treasures. Under the orders of crime boss Nick Marco (Cesar Romero), the duo charms Lady Fitzmore (Edith...
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