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Estelle Brody is a Actor American born on 15 august 1900 at New York City (USA)
Estelle Brody (15 August 1900 – 3 June 1995) was an American actress who became one of the biggest female stars of British silent film in the latter half of the 1920s. Her career was then derailed by a series of ill-advised decisions and she disappeared from sight for many years before re-emerging between the late 1940s and the 1960s in smaller supporting film and television roles.
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Nationality USA
Birth 15 august 1900 at New York City (USA)
Death 3 june 1995 (at 94 years) at Valletta (Malte)
Birth 15 august 1900 at New York City (USA)
Death 3 june 1995 (at 94 years) at Valletta (Malte)
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Estelle Brody est la fille du compositeur Joseph Brody et de Leah Wishnew et la sœur de Murray L. Brody. Elle commence sa carrière au cabaret puis dans le vaudeville de théâtre : elle participe durant un an à une tournée aux États-Unis. Puis elle déménage au Royaume-Uni pour jouer dans The Blue Kitten.Usually with
Filmography of Estelle Brody (21 films)
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, 1h21Directed by Cyril Frankel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Gwen Watford, Janina Faye, Niall MacGinnis, Alison Leggatt
Roles Eunice Kalliduke
Rating73%
The film is set in a small Canadian town to which the British Carter family (Peter, Sally and 9-year-old daughter Jean) have just moved, following Peter's appointment as school principal. One night Jean appears restless and disturbed, and confides to her parents that earlier that day while playing in a local wood, she and her friend, Lucille, went into the house of an elderly man who asked them to remove their clothes and dance naked before him in return for some candy, which they did and Jean doesn't believe they did anything wrong. But her parents are appalled by what they hear and decide to file a complaint. The accused man, Clarence Olderberry Sr., is however the doyen of the wealthiest, most highly regarded and influential family in town and matters conspire to turn against the Carters as the townspeople start to close rank against the newcomers. The police chief casts doubt on Jean's story, while Olderberry's son warns the Carters that if they pursue the matter through the legal system, he will ensure that Jean's evidence and trustworthiness will be torn to shreds in court.
Breakout (1959)
, 1h2Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, Terence Alexander, John Paul, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas
Roles Maureen O'Quinn
Rating64%
The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
, 1h43Directed by David Miller
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears, Lee Patterson, June Clyde, Bessie Love
Roles Tammy
Rating63%
With her marriage to womaniser Carlo Landi (Rossano Brazzi) in ashes, wealthy and childless Margaret Landi (Joan Crawford) finds an emotional outlet in patronizing a 15-year-old deaf, dumb, and blind Irish girl named Esther Costello (Heather Sears). Esther's disabilities are the result of a childhood trauma and are psychosomatic rather than physical. As Costello makes progress with Braille and sign language, she is seen as an example of triumph over adversity. Carlo gets wind of Margaret's new life and re-enters the scene. He views Esther as a source of cheap financial gain and arranges a series of exploitative tours for her under a mercenary manager Frank Wenzel (Ron Randell). One day when Margaret is absent from the Landi apartment, Carlo seduces and rapes the now 16-year-old Esther. The shock restores the girl's sight and hearing. When Margaret learns of her husband's business duplicities and the rape, she consigns Esther to the care of a priest and a young reporter who loves her (Lee Patterson). Margaret then kills Carlo and herself.
Safari (1956)
, 1h30Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver, Earl Cameron, Liam Redmond
Roles Aunty May
Rating56%
When American white hunter Ken Duffield (Victor Mature) is off leading a safari, Mau Mau terrorists attack his farm; slaughtering the labourers and livestock. Duffield's son Charlie and Aunt May (Estelle Brody) defend their home against the mass attack but they do not know that their houseboy Jeroge (a poor transliteration of Njoroge) (Earl Cameron) is actually a Mau Mau general. From inside the farmhouse, Jeroge murders Aunt May with a machete and Charlie by repeatedly firing May's rifle into the child.
Luxury Girls (1952)
Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Susan Stephen, Anna Maria Ferrero, Jacques Sernas, Marina Vlady, Brunella Bovo, Rossana Podestà
Roles Mrs. Whitmore
Rating56%
Après avoir terminé ses études, une Américaine, Susan Miller, passe une période de vacances à Rome avec ses parents. Son père, un homme riche qui a mené une vie dissipée, l'envoie compléter son éducation mondaine au célèbre collège de Mont-Fleuri, en Suisse.
They Were Not Divided (1950)
, 2h17Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War
Themes Political films
Actors Edward Underdown, Helen Cherry, Michael Brennan, Michael Trubshawe, Desmond Llewelyn, Anthony Dawson
Roles War Correspondent
Rating60%
During the middle years of the war, three men are called up to serve in the British Army. The Englishman Philip Hamilton (Underdown), the American David Morgan (Clanton) and the Irishman Smoke O'Connor (Michael Brennan) are drafted into the Guards Division and report to their barracks at Caterham, Surrey. After going through strict training (including real Coldstream Guards Regimental Sergeant Major Brittain) they find themselves receiving emergency promotions. Philip and David are promoted to 2nd lieutenant and Smoke to corporal and are attached to a tank company of the Welsh Guards, where Philip and David command their own tank and Smoke is part of David's crew. Months of 'real' training follow, where they learn about tank warfare and also their comrades.
Lilli Marlene (1950)
, 1h25Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Hugh McDermott, Lisa Daniely, Stanley Baker, Richard Murdoch, Russell Hunter, Leslie Dwyer
Roles Estelle
Rating50%
A French girl named Lilli Marlene, working in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. The Germans try to snatch her at one point, but don't succeed, and she performs several times for the British troops and also appears in radio broadcasts to the USA, arranged by Steve, an American war correspondent embedded with the British Eighth Army, who eventually becomes her boyfriend.
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
, 1h45Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Kenneth Tobey, Randy Stuart, Carl Jaffe
Roles WAC Announcer Officer (uncredited)
Rating69%
In post-World War II Germany, French Army Captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is given the task of recruiting a highly skilled lens maker, Schindler (Martin Miller). He is assigned American Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) as his chauffeur, much to their mutual discomfort (arising from several prior clashes). The only available transportation is a motorcycle, which due to Army regulations, only Catherine is allowed to drive; Henri has to ride in the sidecar. After several mishaps, the constantly quarreling couple arrive at their destination, Bad Nauheim.
Ann Vickers (1933)
, 1h16Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Bruce Cabot, Conrad Nagel, Edna May Oliver, Sam Hardy
Roles Prisoner (uncredited)
Rating61%
Ann Vickers (1933)
, 1h16Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot, Edna May Oliver, Sam Hardy
Roles Prisoner (uncredited)
Rating61%
After a military officer (Bruce Cabot) gets Ann Vickers (Irene Dunne) pregnant and leaves her, her baby dies during birth. Feeling stunned, Ann devotes herself to social work, taking a job in a women's prison. However, when she tries to improve the conditions there, she loses her job. She instead writes a book about the harsh realities of the prison and begins a romance with a married judge, Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston). This helps her career but frustrates her wish for a family.
Week-End Wives (1929)
Directed by Harry Lachman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Monty Banks, Jameson Thomas, Estelle Brody, Ernest Thesiger
Roles Madame le Grand
Rating25%
Kitty (1929)
, 1h32Directed by Victor Saville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Dorothy Cumming, Marie Ault, Winter Hall, Olaf Hytten
Roles Kitty Greenwood / Kitty St. George
Rating49%
In pre-World War I London, handsome young aviator Alex St. George (Stuart) meets and falls in love with shopgirl Kitty Greenwood (Brody). He asks her to marry him, to the horror of his snobbish, class-bound mother (Dorothy Cumming), who is appalled by the notion of her son marrying into a family who run a tobacconists shop. Before the wedding can take place, war breaks out and Alex is called up to serve as a pilot.
The Plaything (1929)
Directed by Castleton Knight
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Estelle Brody, Heather Thatcher, Nigel Barrie, Ray Milland
Roles Joyce Bennett
Mademoiselle Parley Voo (1928)
Directed by Maurice Elvey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Estelle Brody, Alf Goddard, John Longden, John Stuart
Roles Mademoiselle
Sailors Don't Care (1928)
Directed by W. P. Kellino
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Estelle Brody, Alf Goddard, John Stuart, Gladys Hamer
Roles Jenny Melrose