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Margaret Seddon is a Actor American born on 17 november 1872 at Washington, D.C. (USA)

Margaret Seddon

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Birth name Marguerite Hungerford Whiteley Sloan
Nationality USA
Birth 17 november 1872 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Death 17 april 1968 (at 95 years) at Philadelphia (USA)

Margaret Seddon (November 18, 1872 – April 17, 1968) was an American film actress. She appeared in 104 films between 1915 and 1951, including Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). She was born in Washington, D.C. and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Biography

Marguerite Hungerford Whiteley Sloan entame sa carrière d'actrice au théâtre en prenant le nom de scène Margaret Seddon, notamment dans le répertoire du vaudeville. Elle joue à Broadway (New York) dans deux pièces, représentées respectivement en 1911 et 1913-1914.

Au cinéma, elle débute dans deux films sortis en 1915. Elle contribue à une cinquantaine d'autres films muets américains jusqu'en 1928, dont Sonny d'Henry King (1922, avec Richard Barthelmess et Pauline Garon) et Fraternité de King Vidor (1925, avec Eleanor Boardman et Harrison Ford).

Puis elle apparaît dans une cinquantaine de films parlants à partir de 1929, dont L'Extravagant Mr. Deeds de Frank Capra (1936, avec Gary Cooper et Jean Arthur) et Mon secrétaire travaille la nuit de Mitchell Leisen (1942, avec Rosalind Russell et Fred MacMurray). Son avant-dernier film est House by the River de Fritz Lang (1950, avec Louis Hayward et Jane Wyatt). Le dernier est un western sorti en 1951 et il n'en eu pas de suivant.

Pour la télévision, Margaret Seddon joue uniquement dans le premier épisode, diffusé en 1953, de la série Letter to Loretta .

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Filmography of Margaret Seddon (70 films)

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House by the River, 1h24
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Kathleen Freeman, Ann Shoemaker
Roles Mrs. Whittaker - Party Guest
Rating69% 3.495453.495453.495453.495453.49545
A rich novelist, Stephen Byrne, who lives and works by a river, kills his attractive maid after she begins screaming following a drunken pass. The writer, with the help of his limping brother, loads the body into an old sack and the pair throws the body into the river. Unfortunately, the body comes back up and floats by the house days later. Despite desperate attempts by the brothers to get the body, the police end up recovering it.
Sherlock Holmes in Washington, 1h11
Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Horror, Crime
Themes Spy films, Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Mary Forbes, Henry Daniell, George Zucco
Roles Miss Pringle (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3488053.3488053.3488053.3488053.348805
A British agent carrying a vital document is murdered on his way to deliver it in the USA. Holmes deduces he was carrying the document in the form of microfilm and goes to Washington with Watson to find the killer and retrieve the document before it falls into the hands of an "international spy ring". Before his death, the agent managed to pass the microfilm into the unwitting hands of a Washington debutante and bride-to-be. There are some amusing moments when the microfilm, which has been inserted into a "V for Victory" matchbook, gets passed from hand to hand at a party unknowingly, and at one point is discarded by the chief criminal. Holmes and Watson track down the criminals, rescue the bride-to-be and regain the microfilm.
The Meanest Man in the World, 57minutes
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie Anderson, Edmund Gwenn, Anne Revere, Margaret Seddon
Roles Mrs. Frances H. Leggitt
Rating63% 3.194293.194293.194293.194293.19429
Richard Clarke is a lawyer with his own legal practice in Pottsville, New York. His black paralegal assistant continuously claims that Clarke is far too nice a man to be a profitable businessman, since he always fails to demand payment from his poor clients and never take on those he doesn't believe are innocent. But Clarke's main problem is that he is hopelessly in love with the lovely Janie Brown. Janie's wealthy father has decided that Janie will marry the even wealthier bachelor Bill Potts. Clarke remains completely oblivious of this fact.
Roxie Hart
Roxie Hart (1942)
, 1h15
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Hugh Downs, Nigel Bruce
Roles Mrs. Wadsworth (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.446443.446443.446443.446443.44644
As soon as Stuart Chapman (Ted North) starts his new job as a newspaper reporter in Chicago, he is pulled into a murder investigation together with his new colleague Homer Howard (George Montgomery). As they sit down in a bar having a drink after a long day, Homer starts telling about a case he reported on in 1927 - a murder case involving the young dancer Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers).
Take a Letter, Darling, 1h32
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Constance Moore, Robert Benchley, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Aunt Judy
Rating67% 3.3897153.3897153.3897153.3897153.389715
A struggling painter Fred MacMurray takes a job as private secretary to a tough female advertising executive Rosalind Russell. While working together to win the account of a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day, 1h23
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Red Skelton, Alma Kruger, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Mrs. Bartlett
Rating62% 3.146533.146533.146533.146533.14653
Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres) is finally marrying nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day) and everyone at Blair General Hospital in New York is preparing for the wedding. The wedding renders mixed feelings for James' mentor, the wheelchair-bound Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), who realizes his protégé will have less time for him.
The Bank Dick, 1h12
Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors W. C. Fields, Una Merkel, Cora Witherspoon, Jessie Ralph, Grady Sutton, Franklin Pangborn
Roles Old Lady in Car (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5441853.5441853.5441853.5441853.544185
Egbert Sousé est pris par inadvertance pour celui qui a permis l'arrestation d'un braqueur de banque. Plutôt que de démentir, il se vante de son coup d'éclat imaginaire. En remerciement, le directeur de la banque lui offre un poste de gardien.
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case, 1h17
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Shepperd Strudwick, Samuel S. Hinds, Emma Dunn
Roles Mrs. Julia Cray, Skin Alergy Patient
Rating59% 2.9939052.9939052.9939052.9939052.993905
Dr. James Kildare gets competition for the heart of nurse Mary Lamont from wealthy brain surgeon Dr. Gregory Lane. Kildare has not proposed to Mary because of his poor financial situation. Kildare's mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie, arranges for him to be offered a prestigious, well-paid job at the Messenger Institute, but Kildare decides to continue working with his inspiring mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. As a result, Mary gives up all hope of marrying Kildare.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1h57
Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about religion
Actors Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien, Harry Davenport
Roles Older Sister (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.894533.894533.894533.894533.89453
The film opens in 1482 with King Louis XI and his close advisor, Frollo, the King's Chief Justice of Paris, in a printing shop. Frollo is determined to do everything in his power to rid Paris of anything he sees as evil, including the printing press and gypsies, who at the time are persecuted and prohibited from entering Paris. That day is Paris' annual celebration, the Festival of Fools. Esmeralda, a young gypsy girl, is seen dancing in front of an audience of people, including the King and Frollo. Quasimodo, the hunchback and bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, is crowned the Pope of Fools until Frollo catches up to him and takes him back to the church.
Raffles
Raffles (1939)
, 1h12
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, May Whitty, Dudley Digges, Douglas Walton, E. E. Clive
Roles Maud Holden
Rating63% 3.196953.196953.196953.196953.19695
A.J. Raffles, the celebrated cricketer, is welcomed in the parlours and country estates of high society. This circumstance he uses to his advantage in his secret career as "The Amateur Cracksman", a master burglar and safecracker who remains always one step ahead of Scotland Yard. An old school friend, Bunny Manders, reintroduces Raffles to his sister, Gwen, with whom Raffles had been infatuated a decade ago. Raffles falls in love with her all over again, and she with him. When Bunny confides a crushing gambling debt over which he is considering suicide, Raffles assures him the money can be obtained. He plans to accept a weekend invitation to the country house of Lord and Lady Melrose; Lady Melrose's famous jewellery can easily solve Bunny's problem. Another guest, however, is Inspector MacKenzie incognito, who clearly suspects Raffles of being the Cracksman. Raffles plots to frame a petty criminal with the jewel theft...but keep the jewellery, of course.
Breakfast for Two, 1h7
Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore, Donald Meek, Etienne Girardot
Roles Stockholder (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1955153.1955153.1955153.1955153.195515
After drunkenly carousing on the town, idle playboy Jonathan Blair (Herbert Marshall) wakes up to find that Texan Valentine Ransome (Barbara Stanwyck) has spent the night in his mansion. He remembers little of the night and knows little about his houseguest. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform and then to marry him, explaining to her horse-breaking uncle Sam (Frank M. Thomas) that she intends to "slip a bit in his mouth and make him like it". In her way is Jonathan's girlfriend, actress Carol Wallace (Glenda Farrell).