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Elsa Buchanan is a Actor born on 22 december 1908 at London (United-kingdom)
Elsa Buchanan (22 December 1908 – 17 January 2004) was an English character actress with a brief career in theatre and film.
Born Elsie Winifred Buchanan Tinker, Buchanan made her stage debut at age three at the Palace Theatre, London at a performance attended by Queen Mary. Buchanan was later the first Englishwoman admitted to the training school of the Académie française.
She made seventeen films in the United States, where she was noted for her blonde hair and called "the girl with the largest eyes and the smallest waist in Hollywood." She accepted the proposal of her husband, a merchant sailor named Noll Charlton, while attending a coronation ball for King George VI and retired from film thereafter.
Shortly before her death saw Gosford Park, in which one of the characters, a Hollywood producer, discusses casting for Charlie Chan in London, inviting a blonde maid to audition for the part that she actually played in that film.
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Birth name Elsie Winifred Buchanan Tinker
Birth 22 december 1908 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 17 january 2004 (at 95 years)
Birth 22 december 1908 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 17 january 2004 (at 95 years)
Born Elsie Winifred Buchanan Tinker, Buchanan made her stage debut at age three at the Palace Theatre, London at a performance attended by Queen Mary. Buchanan was later the first Englishwoman admitted to the training school of the Académie française.
She made seventeen films in the United States, where she was noted for her blonde hair and called "the girl with the largest eyes and the smallest waist in Hollywood." She accepted the proposal of her husband, a merchant sailor named Noll Charlton, while attending a coronation ball for King George VI and retired from film thereafter.
Shortly before her death saw Gosford Park, in which one of the characters, a Hollywood producer, discusses casting for Charlie Chan in London, inviting a blonde maid to audition for the part that she actually played in that film.
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The Dark Stairway (1938)
, 1h13Directed by Arthur B. Woods
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Hugh Williams, Chili Bouchier, Garry Marsh, James Stephenson, Reginald Purdell, Lesley Brook
Invisible Enemy (1938)
, 1h6Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Alan Marshal, Tala Birell, C. Henry Gordon, Herbert Mundin, Gerald Oliver Smith, Ivan F. Simpson
Roles Sophia
Rating58%
Lloyd's of London (1937)
, 1h52Directed by Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, George Sanders, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Servant Girl
Rating68%
On the last day of 1770, youngster Jonathan Blake (Freddie Bartholomew) overhears two sailors discussing something suspicious in his aunt's ale-house in a Norfolk fishing village. He persuades his more respectable best friend, Horatio Nelson (Douglas Scott), to sneak aboard the sailors' ship with him. They overhear a plot involving insurance fraud. When Jonathan decides to warn the insurers, Horatio cannot accompany him, because that same day he is invited to join the Royal Navy as a midshipman. Jonathan walks all the way to London to Lloyd's Coffee House, where the insurers conduct their business. Mr. Angerstein (Guy Standing), the head of one of the syndicates that make up Lloyd's of London, listens to him. Instead of a monetary reward, Jonathan asks to work at Lloyd's as a waiter. Angerstein teaches him that news, "honestly acquired and honestly shared," is the lifeblood of the insurance industry.
Call It a Day (1937)
, 1h30Directed by Dodie Smith, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Alice Brady, Roland Young, Bonita Granville
Roles Vera, the Maid (uncredited)
Rating58%
Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
, 1h33Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ruby Keeler, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins, Louise Fazenda, Ross Alexander, Carol Hughes
Roles Maid at Party
Rating58%
The Thirteenth Chair (1937)
, 1h6Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors May Whitty, Lewis Stone, Madge Evans, Thomas Beck, Elissa Landi, Charles Trowbridge
Roles Grace Stanby
Rating62%
Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
, 1h35Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn, Nathalie Paley, Dennie Moore
Rating62%
Sylvia Scarlett (Katharine Hepburn) and her father, Henry (Edmund Gwenn), flee France one step ahead of the police. Henry, while employed as a bookkeeper for a lace factory, was discovered to be an embezzler. While on the channel ferry, they meet a "gentleman adventurer", Jimmy Monkley (Cary Grant), who partners with them in his con games.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
, 1h38Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Henry Stephenson, Mickey Rooney, Constance Collier
Roles Susan
Rating72%
Young Cedric "Ceddie" Errol (Freddie Bartholomew) and his widowed mother, whom he calls "Dearest" (Dolores Costello), live frugally in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's prejudiced English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt (C. Aubrey Smith), had long ago disowned his son for marrying an American.
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
, 1h28Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Douglass Dumbrille, Ida Lupino, Virginia Weidler
Roles Madame Pasquier
Rating68%
Gogo is a young boy of English extraction growing up in Paris. He is friendly with the neighbor girl, Mimsey. After his mother dies, Gogo is taken to England by his uncle who gives him an English name based on his mother's maiden name, transforming Gogo into Peter Ibbetson.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
, 1h27Directed by Stuart Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Actors Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners, Francis L. Sullivan, E. E. Clive
Roles Mrs. Tisher
Rating63%
The Little Minister (1934)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare, Andy Clyde
Roles Villager
Rating61%
Set in rural 1840s Scotland, the plot focuses on labor and class issues while telling the story of Gavin Dishart, a staid cleric newly assigned to Thrums' Auld Licht church, and Babbie, a member of the nobility who disguises herself as a gypsy girl in order to interact freely with the local villagers and protect them from her guardian, Lord Rintoul, who wants to keep them under his control. Initially the conservative Dishart is appalled by the feisty girl, but he soon comes to appreciate her inner goodness. Their romantic liaison scandalizes the townspeople, and the minister's position is jeopardized until Babbie's true identity is revealed.
Charlie Chan in London (1934)
, 1h19Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton, Alan Mowbray, Madge Bellamy
Roles Alice Rooney
Rating68%
When a young English man is convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, his sister and her fiance, convinced of his innocence, ask visiting detective Charlie Chan to investigate the crime and find the real murderer. In order to solve the mystery, he must visit a lavish country manor house in England where the suspects vary from the housekeeper to a lawyer. Events soon indicate that the murderer is still actively trying to avoid capture, but Charlie Chan must set a trap to reveal the criminal's identity.