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Mildred Shay is a Actor American born on 26 september 1911 at Cedarhurst (USA)
Mildred Helen Shay (September 26, 1911 – October 15, 2005) was an American film actress of the 1930s who was better known for her affairs, marriages and glamorous social life. The petite Shay, at five-feet tall, was dubbed the "Pocket Venus" by Hollywood gossip columnists.
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Nationality USA
Birth 26 september 1911 at Cedarhurst (USA)
Death 15 october 2005 (at 94 years) at Glendale (USA)
Birth 26 september 1911 at Cedarhurst (USA)
Death 15 october 2005 (at 94 years) at Glendale (USA)
Mildred Helen Shay (September 26, 1911 – October 15, 2005) was an American film actress of the 1930s who was better known for her affairs, marriages and glamorous social life. The petite Shay, at five-feet tall, was dubbed the "Pocket Venus" by Hollywood gossip columnists.
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Parting Shots (1999)
Directed by Michael Winner
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Felicity Ann Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley, Diana Rigg, Joanna Lumley
Roles Old Lady at Wedding
Rating51%
The film concerns Harry Sterndale (Rea), a wedding photographer who is mistakenly told by his doctor that he has six weeks to live and begins to kill people who have wronged him in his life, only to find that the diagnosis was incorrect. Also he paid an assassin named Jamie (Reed) to kill him instead of living out his last days in custody and nearly leaves it too late to call off the hit. Jamie takes after the two and after being arrested for assassinating the dictator of a fictional country he takes the blame for all of the murders that occurred during the film. It ends with Harry and Jill visiting Jamie in prison as newlyweds.
Bullseye! (1990)
, 1h35Directed by Michael Winner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Sally Kirkland, Lee Patterson, Deborah Moore, Mark Burns
Roles Jolene (Tourist Wife)
Rating45%
Moore and Caine play dual roles—a pair of small time con-men and a pair of inept nuclear physicists who believe they have invented a limitless supply of energy. The con men use their resemblance to the scientists to con their way into the scientists' safe deposit boxes and steal the formula, but in so doing, they become entangled in a shady world of spies and international intrigue. The film includes a number of cameo appearances, including Jenny Seagrove (Winner's partner at the time) playing two different roles, John Cleese, Patsy Kensit, Alexandra Pigg and Nicholas Courtney. The film also features Roger Moore's daughter, Deborah Moore, in a supporting role.
Death Wish 3 (1985)
, 1h32Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy, Alex Winter
Roles Martha
Rating58%
Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) has come back to Brooklyn after being banned since the events of the first film to visit his Korean War buddy Charley, who is attacked by a gang in his apartment. The neighbors hear commotion and call the police. Paul arrives as Charley collapses dead in his arms. The police mistakenly arrest Paul for the murder. At the police station, Inspector Richard Shriker (Ed Lauter) recognizes Paul as "Mr. Vigilante". Shriker lays down the law before Paul is taken to a holding cell. In the same cell is Manny Fraker (Gavan O'Herlihy), leader of the gang who attacked and killed Charley. He and Paul fight. When he is released, Manny threatens Paul. Manny arrives on his “gang turf” and slashes fellow gang member Hector (David Crean), possibly for betrayal. The police receive daily reports about the increased rate of crime. Shriker offers a deal to Paul—to kill all the punks he wants, as long as he informs Shriker of any gang activity he hears about so the police can get a bust and make news.
Funny Money (1982)
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Gregg Henry, Elizabeth Daily, Gareth Hunt, Derren Nesbitt, Annie Ross, Rose Alba
Rating58%
A pair of credit card thieves flee Las Vegas for London where they shelter in the Londonderry Hotel.
Candleshoe (1977)
, 1h41Directed by Norman Tokar
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Heist films, Children's films
Actors David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern, Sydney Bromley, John Alderson
Roles Mrs. McCress
Rating67%
Con-artist Harry Bundage (McKern) believes that the lost treasure of pirate captain Joshua St. Edmund is hidden at Candleshoe, the large country estate of Lady St Edmund (Hayes). Having gained access to Captain St. Edmund's hidden will with the help of a corrupt former cleaning woman at Candleshoe, Harry recruits American Casey Brown (Foster)—-an unwanted foster child and hooligan-—into the plot, employing her to pose as Lady St Edmund's granddaughter, the Honourable Margaret, 4th Marchioness of St Edmond, who was kidnapped at age four by her father and subsequently disappeared after her father's death. Casey is the right age to pass for Margaret and possesses several identifying scars that young Margaret was known to have. Casey agrees to go along with the con and discover further clues in exchange for a cut of the treasure.
Valentino (1977)
, 2h8Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Erotic, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane, Felicity Ann Kendal, Seymour Cassel
Roles Femme de chez Maxim's
Rating60%
The film begins with a mock newsreel sequence showing the chaos around the death of 31-year-old film star Rudolph Valentino (Rudolph Nureyev). Thousands of fans mob the funeral home until order is restored, at which point the important women in Valentino's life come to mourn. Each remembers him via flashbacks.
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
, 1h52Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young
Rating77%
Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is a wealthy Main Line Philadelphia socialite who had divorced C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), a member of her social set, because he did not measure up to her exacting standards, due to his alcoholism and Tracy's lack of faith in him, which exacerbated his condition. She is about to marry nouveau riche "man of the people" George Kittredge (John Howard).
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940)
, 1h5Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance, Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Mary Lee, Slim Whitaker, Warren Hull
Rating67%
Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) work on a ranch owned by Ann Randolph (June Storey). Gene is unaware that he has just inherited the Belmont Packing Company. While Gene and Frog take the cattle to market, Gene has an argument with Ann who fires them both, giving them one of the steers as back pay. Later the local sheriff, seeing a Randolph steer in the possession of the two cowboys, arrests Gene and Frog on suspicion of cattle rustling. Attorney Henry Walker (Forbes Murray), who has been searching for the singing cowboy, finally locates Gene at the jail and informs him of his inheritance.
In Old Missouri (1940)
, 1h8Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Actors June Storey, Marjorie Gateson, Thurston Hall, Alan Ladd, Mildred Shay, Andrew Tombes
Rating59%
Balalaika (1939)
, 1h42Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, C. Aubrey Smith, Frank Morgan
Roles Jeanette Sibirsky
Rating61%
In 1914 Tsarist Russia, Prince Peter Karagin (Nelson Eddy) is a captain of the Cossack Guards, riding home from manoeuvres to an evening of wine, women and song at St. Petersburg's Cafe Balalaika. The Balalaika's new star, Lydia Pavlovna Marakova (Ilona Massey), is blackmailed into attending the officers' party and is expected to choose a "favoured one." She intrigues Karagin when she makes good her escape instead.
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
, 1h10Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Billie Burke, Katharine Hepburn, David Manners, Paul Cavanagh, Henry Stephenson
Rating64%
A Bill of Divorcement describes a day in the lives of a middle-aged Englishwoman named Margaret "Meg" Fairfield (Burke); her daughter Sydney (Hepburn); Sydney's fiancée Kit Humphreys (Manners); Meg's fiancée Gray Meredith (Cavanagh); and Meg's husband Hilary (Barrymore), who escapes after spending almost twenty years in a mental hospital. After the family discusses Hilary's genetic predisposition toward psychiatric problems, which Sydney seems to have inherited, Hilary and Sydney give up Meg and Kit in order to avoid passing this trait to future generations.
The Age of Consent (1932)
, 1h3Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dorothy Wilson, Arline Judge, Richard Cromwell, Eric Linden, John Halliday, Aileen Pringle
Roles Student at dormitory (uncredited)
Rating60%
Mike Harvey (Cromwell) and Betty Cameron (Wilson) are college sweethearts at a New York college. They are so anxious to consummate their relationship that Mike suggests that the two of them quit college, get married and move to California where a friend of his has offered him a job. Both Mike's mentor, Professor Matthews, and Betty talk him out of it. In a funk, Mike goes to the local diner.