Biography: Helen Hayes |
Helen Hayes, the First Lady of the American Theater, made most of her infrequent film appearances after an allergy to theater dust forced her to retire from the stage. Her stage career began when she was five; at age nine, she made her first Broadway... more
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Cast: Bette Davis
Tags: Detective Film Whodunit Mystery
Length: 100min
Helen Hayes makes her second TV appearance as Agatha Christie's female sleuth Miss Marple in Murder with Mirrors. Marple has been summoned to the lavish country estate of her old friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis). Carrie's stepson has been...
Cast: Olivia de Havilland
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 100min
Murder Is Easy is one of a multitude of 1980s TV movies based on the novels of Agatha Christie. Bill Bixby stars as an American investor, vacationing in England. While on a train, Bixby strikes up a conversation with the seemingly dotty Helen Hayes,...
Cast: David Niven Jodie Foster Helen Hayes
Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Adventure Family Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 101min
Though she owns a large estate and is herself a noblewoman, Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) is anything but rich. Indeed, if she cannot raise the money needed to pay taxes on the estate, she and the large crew of orphans she has taken in will be thrown...
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor Burt Lancaster Kirk Douglas Richard Dreyfuss
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller
Length: 119min
Within months after the spectacular July 4, 1976 rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport, there were two competing TV movies on the subject. The longest (and least) of the two was Victory at Entebbe, hurriedly shot on videotape. The story...
Tags: Whodunit Detective Film Mystery
Length: 100min
Helen Hayes plays Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple in A Caribbean Mystery. Recuperating from an illness at a resort in the Bahamas, Miss Marple makes the acquaintance of a genial British major (Maurice Evans). When her new friend is...
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
Tags: Spy Film Slapstick Comedy Science Fiction Spy Comedy
Length: 93min
In this comical Disney espionage adventure, a herd of nannies team up with Scotland Yard and set off to find important microfilm that was concealed, by a wicked Chinese spy, within the skeleton of a dinosaur that now sits in the British Natural...
The Snoop Sisters - Female Instinct (1972)
Cast: Paulette Goddard
Tags: Detective Film Comedy Mystery Crime
Length: 100min
First telecast December 16, 1972, The Snoop Sisters was the pilot for a Richard Levinson/William Link detective series. Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick play a couple of mystery writers who happen to be siblings. With the help of their pragmatic...
Cast: Keenan Wynn
Tags: Family Comedy Adventure Caper Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 88min
Herbie Rides Again is the first sequel to Disney's fabulously successful The Love Bug. The emphasis here is on Mrs. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), a feisty old San Franciscan who refuses to sell her home to conniving developer Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn)....
Cast: Ingrid Bergman Yul Brynner
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: 105min
Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman plays a would-be suicide who is rescued by Russian expatriate Yul Brynner. Brynner's motives are far from altruistic; together...
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971)
Cast: Myrna Loy Jerry Goldsmith Vince Edwards
Tags: Comedy Thriller Thriller
Length: 73min
Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney star as four elderly pranksters devoted to practical jokes. When one of the ladies gets hold of a computer-dating questionnaire, the others invent a mythical girl and feed the falsified...
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