What actress born in Larne, County Antrim in 1917 appeared in a 1934 film adaptation of Badger's Green?
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Badger's Green (play) The play has been adapted for the screen three times: a 1934 version starring Valerie Hobson, a 1938 version starring Maurice Denham and a 1949 version starring Garry Marsh.
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Valerie Hobson Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) was a British actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She was born Babette Valerie Louise Hobson in Larne, County Antrim, in present-day Northern Ireland. Her second husband was John Profumo, a government minister who became the subject of a sensational sex scandal in 1963.
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The Village Squire The Village Squire is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Reginald Denham and starring David Horne, Leslie Perrins, Moira Lynd and Vivien Leigh. It was based on a play by Arthur Jarvis Black. A village's amateur production of "MacBeth" is aided by the arrival of a Hollywood star. This provokes the fierce resistance of the village squire who hates films.
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Lois Andrews Lois Andrews (March 24, 1924 – April 5, 1968) was an American actress. Born in Huntington Park, California, as Lorraine Gourley, she played in films during the 1940s and early 1950s.
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Audrey Dalton Audrey Dalton (born 21 January 1934) is an Irish television and film actress.
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Girls, Please! Girls, Please! is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Sydney Howard, Jane Baxter, Meriel Forbes and Peter Gawthorne. It was made at Elstree Studios. In the film, a physical education teacher at a girls school is left in charge when the headmistress is absent, and has to confront the elopement of one of the pupils.
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Kate Serjeantson Kate Serjeantson (died 1918) was a stage actress of the early 20th century who performed in various productions, such as "The Case of Lady Camber" (1917) and "Rambler Rose" (1917). In films she was sometimes credited as Kate Sergeantson.
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Irina Kupchenko Irina Petrovna Kupchenko (Russian: Ирина Петровна Купченко ; born 1 March 1948 in Vienna) is a Soviet and Russian actress. She rose to prominence after acting in Andrei Konchalovsky's 1969 movie adaptation of "A Nest of Gentlefolk". She has performed in more than forty films since 1969.
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Mary Riggans Mary Riggans (19 July 1935 – 2 December 2013) was a Scottish actress, best known for playing Effie in "Take the High Road" and Susie Sweet in "Balamory". She began her acting career in 1946, when she did a voiceover at the age of 10, and went on to star in TV, radio and theatre productions.
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Clare Dunne Clare Dunne (born 1937) OAM is an Irish-born Australian actress, author, lecturer and broadcaster. Her first name is also found as Claire.
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Sheila Manahan Sheila Manahan (1 January 1924 – 29 March 1988) was an Irish actress.
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Geraldine McEwan Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown; 9 May 1932 – 30 January 2015) was an English actress who had a long career in theatre, television and film. Michael Coveney described her, in a tribute article, as "a great comic stylist, with a syrupy, seductive voice and a forthright, sparkling manner".
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Barbara Everest Barbara Everest (19 June 1890 – 9 February 1968) was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film "The Man Without a Soul".
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Francesca Annis Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress. She is known for television roles in "Reckless" (1998), "Wives and Daughters" (1999), "Deceit" (2000) and "Cranford" (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial "Lillie". Her film appearances include "Krull" (1983), "Dune" (1984), "The Debt Collector" (1999) and "The Libertine" (2004).
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Annemarie Sörensen Annemarie Sörensen (19 December 1913 – December 1993) was a German singer and film actress. She played the female lead in the 1934 comedy "Heinz in the Moon". She was a Protestant, but due to what was described as her uncertain racial origin she faced pressure following the Nazi takeover. In 1935 she emigrated from Germany and eventually went to live in Britain where she lived for the remainder of her life, although her attempt to break into British films failed.
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Elizabeth Larner Elizabeth Larner (born 1931) is a British actress and a singer with a powerful soprano voice. While her main career was the musical theatre, appearing both in London's West End and on Broadway, she was a seemingly unlikely, but inspired, choice to play Ammonia in the BBC situation comedy "Up Pompeii!" - a role she made her own. She later appeared in "The Two Ronnies", supporting Ronnie Barker as "Piggy Malone" and Ronnie Corbett as "Charley Farley" in the 1981-2 comic detective mystery serial "Band of Slaves".
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The Corn Is Green (1945 film) The Corn Is Green is a 1945 drama film starring Bette Davis as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town, despite great opposition. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Emlyn Williams starring Ethel Barrymore.
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Paulette Goddard Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress. A child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl, she became a major star of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s. Her most notable films were her first major role, as Charles Chaplin's leading lady in "Modern Times", and Chaplin's subsequent film "The Great Dictator". She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "So Proudly We Hail!" (1943). Her husbands included Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque.
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When Ladies Meet (1933 film) When Ladies Meet is a 1933 Pre-Code film starring Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery, and Alice Brady. The film is the first adaptation of the 1932 Rachel Crothers play of the same name. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons.
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Helen Jerome Eddy Helen Jerome Eddy (February 25, 1897 – January 27, 1990) was a motion picture actress from New York, New York. She was noted as a character actress who played genteel heroines in films such as "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1917).
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Sylvia Syms Sylvia May Laura Syms OBE (born 6 January 1934) is an English actress, best known for her roles in the films "Woman in a Dressing Gown" (1957), "Ice Cold in Alex" (1958), "No Trees in the Street" (1959), "Victim" (1961), "The Tamarind Seed" (1974) and "The Queen" (2006). She remains active in films, television and theatre.
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Beryl Reid Beryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996) was a British actress of stage and screen. She won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for "The Killing of Sister George", the 1980 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for "Born in the Gardens", and the 1982 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for "Smiley's People". Her film appearances included "The Belles of St. Trinian's" (1954), "The Killing of Sister George" (1968), "The Assassination Bureau" (1969) and "No Sex Please, We're British" (1973)