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Constance Collier is a Actor, Scriptwriter, Vocal Coach and Dialogue Coach British born on 22 january 1878 at Windsor (United-kingdom)

Constance Collier

Constance Collier
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Birth name Laura Constance Hardie
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 january 1878 at Windsor (United-kingdom)
Death 25 april 1955 (at 77 years) at New York City (USA)

Constance Collier (22 January 1878 – 25 April 1955) was an English stage and film actress and acting coach.

Biography

Constance Collier débute au théâtre en 1881, à trois ans dans Le Songe d'une nuit d'été de William Shakespeare. À Londres, elle joue régulièrement sur scène jusqu'en 1928 : mentionnons Antoine et Cléopâtre du même Shakespeare en 1906-1907, Oliver Twist en 1905-1906, pièce d'après le roman éponyme de Charles Dickens qu'elle reprendra en 1914-1915 (et interprétera dans l'intervalle à Broadway en 1912), ou encore The Mystery of Edwin Drood, d'après le roman inachevé de Dickens, en 1908. Cette même année 1908, elle participe à une première tournée théâtrale aux États-Unis, notamment à Broadway, où elle se produira jusqu'en 1942.

À l'occasion d'une de ces tournées outre-Atlantique, en 1916, elle participe à quatre premiers films muets américains (notamment, comme figurante dans Intolérance), puis à trois autres (britanniques) en 1919, 1920 et 1922. Après l'avènement du parlant, elle reprendra une carrière au cinéma, entre 1935 et 1949.

Outre son activité d'actrice, elle est également (co)auteur (souvent, avec Ivor Novello) et metteur en scène de pièces de théâtre, dont certaines adaptées au cinéma - notamment Peter Ibbetson à deux reprises, en 1921 et 1935 - (voir détails ci-dessous).

Une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood.

Usually with

Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello
(5 films)
D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith
(2 films)
Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(5 films)
Michael Balcon
Michael Balcon
(3 films)
Thomas Little
Thomas Little
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Constance Collier (37 films)

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Actress

Whirlpool
Whirlpool (1950)
, 1h38
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O'Neil, Eduard Franz
Roles Tina Cosgrove
Rating66% 3.3467553.3467553.3467553.3467553.346755
Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), the wife of a successful psychoanalyst (Richard Conte), is arrested for shoplifting. Ann is saved from scandal by smooth-talking hypnotist David Korvo (José Ferrer).
Rope
Rope (1948)
, 1h20
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about education, L'action se déroule en une journée, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Douglas Dick
Roles Mrs. Anita Atwater
Rating78% 3.9498853.9498853.9498853.9498853.949885
Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Granger), strangle to death a former classmate, David Kentley (Dick Hogan), in their apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise; they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder".
The Perils of Pauline
The Perils of Pauline (1947)
, 1h36
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest, Constance Collier, Frank Faylen
Roles Julia Gibbs
Rating63% 3.197863.197863.197863.197863.19786
Pearl White (Betty Hutton) is a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become a dramatic actress. She joins a touring theatrical troupe managed by handsome but pompous Mike (John Lund), but fame and fortune elude her because she's unable to suppress her natural rambunctiousness. In desperation, White takes a job at a movie studio, where she promptly finds herself in the middle of a slapstick pie fight. With the help of bombastic director Mac (William Demarest), top-hatted villain portrayer Timmy (Billy De Wolfe), and imperious dramatics coach Julia (Constance Collier), Pearl soon becomes world-famous as the star of such cliffhanging, tied-to-the-railroad-tracks serials as The Perils of Pauline.
An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband (1947)
, 2h5
Directed by Alexander Korda
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Diana Wynyard, Hugh Williams, C. Aubrey Smith, Glynis Johns
Roles Lady Markby
Rating64% 3.2449753.2449753.2449753.2449753.244975
A mysterious lady attempts to blackmail a respected politician into giving a speech in parliament that supports her interests.
The Dark Corner
The Dark Corner (1946)
, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger, Chief Tahachee
Roles Mrs. Kingsley
Rating70% 3.545023.545023.545023.545023.54502
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens) suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his secretary Kathleen (Lucille Ball), he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers. Galt turns the tables on the man following him (William Bendix), who claims to be a private eye named Foss, hired by Galt's sworn enemy, a corrupt lawyer named Tony Jardine. In the meantime, Jardine has begun having an affair with the much-younger wife of Hardy Cathcart (Clifton Webb), a wealthy art-gallery owner. It appears that Jardine is setting up Galt to take another fall. But it turns out Foss is not a private eye but a thug named Stauffer, secretly working for Cathcart. He ambushes Galt, knocking him out with ether, then murders Jardine and places a bloody poker in Galt's hand. Kathleen has fallen in love with Galt, so she aids him in covering up the crime and in trying to find out who's behind it. Cathcart, rather than pay off Stauffer, pushes him through a window to his death. It appears Cathcart has thought of everything, but just as he is about to eliminate Galt at the art gallery, someone else arrives to ruin Cathcart's diabolical plan.
Monsieur Beaucaire
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
, 1h33
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles, Marjorie Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Joseph Schildkraut
Roles The Queen of France
Rating66% 3.3416053.3416053.3416053.3416053.341605
King Louis XV of France is invited by his rival King Philip V of Spain to choose a suitable husband for Philip's daughter, Princess Maria, as a gesture of unity between their two nations. Louis's choice is Duc le Chandre, but the duke fancies Madame Pompadour, as does the king.
Kitty
Kitty (1945)
, 1h43
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, Cecil Kellaway, Constance Collier
Roles Lady Susan Dowitt
Rating68% 3.43653.43653.43653.43653.4365
In 1783, Kitty (Goddard) is caught trying to pick the pocket of the painter Thomas Gainsborough (Kellaway). He offers to pay her more to sit for a portrait for him. There, she attracts the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy (Milland) and the Earl of Carstairs (Knowles). Sir Hugh, upon finding out her real social status, offers her a job as a scullery maid. Kitty learns that he is impoverished, having lost his post in the foreign office due to a scandal.
Susan and God
Susan and God (1940)
, 1h57
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Rita Hayworth, Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Rose Hobart
Roles Lady Wigstaff
Rating59% 2.9526652.9526652.9526652.9526652.952665
Susan (Joan Crawford), a flighty society matron, returns from Europe earlier than expected waxing enthusiastic about a new religious movement. She is estranged from her intelligent and sensitive husband, Barrie (Fredric March) -- who has been driven to drink by his wife's insensitivity -- and she has neglected her introverted and maladjusted daughter, Blossom (Rita Quigley). Barrie tries to meet her boat as it arrives in New York City, but she avoids him and absconds to the country home of her friend, Irene Burroughs (Rose Hobart).
Half a Sinner
Half a Sinner (1940)
, 59minutes
Directed by Al Christie
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Heather Angel, John King, Constance Collier, Walter Catlett, Robert Elliott, Tom Dugan
Roles Mrs. Jefferson Breckenbridge
Rating62% 3.139723.139723.139723.139723.13972
On the last day of school for the year, 25-year-old schoolteacher Miss Anne Gladden has one of her students writing punishment lines reading I WILL TRY TO BE GOOD on the blackboard. After the class is dismissed, she releases the boy from his punishment where she tells him that not everyone can do what they want to do in their life so they might as well make the best of what they have. She is overheard by an older teacher who remarks to Miss Gladden that she prefers the troublemaking students as they are the ones who can think for themselves. Anne is surprised at what she says with the older teacher replying that she has just turned 40 that day and has had regrets about not doing wild things when she was young. She advises Anne to do what she never did as one day she too will be old before she expects to be.
Zaza
Zaza (1938)
, 1h23
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Helen Westley, Constance Collier, Genevieve Tobin
Roles Nathalie
Rating63% 3.18833.18833.18833.18833.1883
A glamorous female singer (Colbert) has an affair with a married man (Marshall).
Wee Willie Winkie
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
, 1h40
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, Cesar Romero, June Lang, Constance Collier
Roles Mrs. Allardyce
Rating68% 3.444783.444783.444783.444783.44478
During the British Raj, Sergeant Donald MacDuff escorts Joyce Williams, an impoverished widow, and her young daughter, Priscilla, to a remote military outpost on the northern frontier of India, to live with her stern father-in-law, Colonel Williams. Along the way, they witness the capture of notorious rebel chief Khoda Khan.
Stage Door
Stage Door (1937)
, 1h32
Directed by Gregory La Cava, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Franklin Pangborn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, William Corson, Pierre Watkin
Roles Miss Luther
Rating76% 3.844083.844083.844083.844083.84408
Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) moves into the Footlights Club, a theatrical rooming house in New York. Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers). From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just as fellow resident Linda Shaw (Gail Patrick) has from her relationship with influential theatrical producer Anthony Powell (Adolphe Menjou). In truth however, Terry comes from a very wealthy, upper class, Midwest family. Over the strong objections of her father, Henry Sims (Samuel S. Hinds), she is determined to try to fulfill her dreams on her own. In the boarding house, Terry's only supporter is aging actress Catherine Luther (Constance Collier), who appoints herself Terry's mentor.
Thunder in the City
Thunder in the City (1937)
, 1h27
Directed by Marion Gering
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Luli Deste, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, Ralph Richardson, Arthur Wontner
Roles Duchess Of Glenavon
Rating60% 3.048163.048163.048163.048163.04816
An American salesman with radically successful methods visits England ostensibly to learn a more dignified manner of salesmanship. He is mistaken for a millionaire by a cash-poor family of noble ancestry with a stately home to sell which he can't afford to buy. But by working with them instead he finds romance and equal success in business with his old marketing techniques.