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Monckton Hoffe is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Additional Dialogue Irlandais born on 26 december 1880
Monckton Hoffe, de son vrai nom Reaney Monckton Hoffe-Miles, est un dramaturge et scénariste irlandais né le 26 décembre 1880 dans le Connemara (Irlande) et mort le 4 novembre 1951 à Londres (Angleterre).
(1937)
(Scriptwriter)
(1928)
(Theatre Play)
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Birth name Reaney Monckton Hoffe-Miles
Nationality Irlande
Birth 26 december 1880
Death 4 november 1951 (at 70 years)
Nationality Irlande
Birth 26 december 1880
Death 4 november 1951 (at 70 years)
Biography
Monckton Hoffe commence une carrière de dramaturge en Irlande avant de s'installer à Londres au début des années 1900. Certaines de ses pièces sont adaptées pour le cinéma, puis il décide dans les années 1920 d'écrire lui-même des scénarios.Best films
(1937)(Scriptwriter)
(1928)(Theatre Play)
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The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
, 1h50Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Felix Aylmer, Arthur Young, Edwin Styles, Rosalie Crutchley
Roles Lord Stratford
Rating63%
Illustrating the political complexities the hard-headed nurse had to battle in order to achieve sanitary medical conditions during the Crimean War. Opposed in the uppermost circles of British government because she is "merely" a woman, Florence Nightingale is championed by the Hon. Sidney Herbert (Michael Wilding), minister of war. Herbert pulls strings to allow Nightingale and her nursing staff access to battlefield hospitals, and in so doing changes the course of medical history.
Many Waters (1931)
Directed by Milton Rosmer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lillian Hall-Davis, Arthur Margetson, Elizabeth Allan, Donald Calthrop, Mary Clare, Robert Douglas
Roles Registrar
Scriptwriter
Derby Day (1952)
, 1h24Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, Toni Edgar-Bruce, Samuel John Kydd, John McCallum
Rating63%
On the morning of the Epsom Derby, a disparate group of people prepare to go to the races. Lady Helen Forbes, a recently widowed aristocrat is planning to make the journey in spite of the disapproval of her social set who consider it unseemly to go while still in mourning. David Scott, a newspaper cartoonist is ordered to go by his editor against his wishes. Meanwhile, as part of a charity raffle, a dissolute film star, Gerald Berkeley, is to escort a wealthy grand dame to Epsom for the day something he is equally reluctant about. Happily she falls and injures her leg, and her crafty housekeeper arranges for one of the young maids to go in her place. Meanwhile, in Battersea, a lodger kills a man whose wife he is having an affair with. They plan to flee the country, and also head to Epsom where he knows a tipster who can smuggle them out.
Four Days (1951)
, 55minutesDirected by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Hugh McDermott, Kathleen Byron, Gordon McLeod, John Harvey, Petra Davies
Roles Theatre Play
Rating57%
Julia Misbehaves (1948)
, 1h39Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Cesar Romero, Lucile Watson
Roles Writer
Rating67%
In 1936 London, mature showgirl Julia Packett (Greer Garson) leads a precarious life. She pretends to be contemplating suicide in order to finagle some money out of a male friend in order to pay her bills. Then, she receives a wedding invitation from her daughter Susan (Elizabeth Taylor). As a young woman, Julia had married wealthy William Packett (Walter Pidgeon). However, after fourteen months of marriage, his disapproving mother (Lucile Watson) had managed to break them up. Julia returned to show business, but left her infant daughter with her husband, so that the child could be raised in more secure circumstances.
The Lady Eve (1941)
, 1h34Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about marriage
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore
Roles Story
Rating76%
Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) is a beautiful con artist. Along with her equally larcenous father, "Colonel" Harrington (Charles Coburn) and his partner Gerald (Melville Cooper), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune ("The Ale That Won for Yale"). Pike is a woman-shy snake expert just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon. Though surrounded by ladies desperate for his attention, Charles is putty in Jean's hands.
Busman's Honeymoon (1940)
, 1h39Directed by Richard Thorpe, Arthur B. Woods
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton, Googie Withers
Rating61%
Lorsque Lord Peter Wimsey, un détective amateur, se marie avec Harriet Vane, une écrivain spécialisée dans les romans policiers, ils s'engagent à abandonner le crime pour de bon. Pour faire une surprise à Harriet, Peter achète un cottage dans le Devon, où ils prévoient de passer leur lune de miel, accompagnés de leur fidèle valet Mervyn Bunter. Toutefois, le lendemain de leur arrivée, le corps de Noakes, à qui Lord Peter avait acheté le cottage, est retrouvé. Bien que ce village soit généralement paisible, un certain nombre de suspects sont possibles, de la nièce de Noakes à Sellon, le policier du village. Ils ne veulent pas s'impliquer dans l'enquête, mais l'arrivée de leur ami vieil l'inspecteur de Scotland Yard Andrew Kirk change la donne. Peter finit par trouver le coupable et le couple décide de se rendre dans un lieu plus calme mais, quand ils entendent des coups de feu à l'intérieur de l'auberge où ils comptaient s'arrêter, ils s'en éloignent préciitamment.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
, 1h38Directed by Richard Boleslawski, Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Noir, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Nigel Bruce, Jessie Ralph
Rating63%
When Lord Francis Kelton (Frank Morgan) finds a beautiful woman in his stateroom, he is flustered, but his playboy friend, Lord Arthur Dilling (Robert Montgomery), is fascinated by her. He finds out from the ship's purser that she is American widow Fay Cheyney on her way to stay in England. In London, she becomes the darling of English society, impressing everyone, including Arthur's wealthy aunt, the Duchess of Ebley (Jessie Ralph), who invites her to stay with her for the weekend. Arthur tries to impress Fay, but is rejected by her, even though she is becoming attracted to him.
The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
, 1h29Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Spy, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films
Actors Luise Rainer, William Powell, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Morgan, Henry Stephenson
Rating64%
While visiting Vienna incognito, Russian Grand Duke Peter (Robert Young) is lured away from a masquerade ball by the beautiful Maria (Maureen O'Sullivan), only to find himself the prisoner of Polish nationalists. Peter is made to write a letter to his father, the Czar of Russia, offering to exchange him for Maria's father, who has been sentenced to be executed.
London Melody (1937)
, 1h15Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati, Robert Douglas, Miki Hood, Davina Craig, Arthur Chesney
Rating71%
A musical with a trial. One of several Anna Neagle - Tullio Carminati vehicles of the 1930s, London Melody was one of five films directed in 1937 by Neagle's future husband, Herbert Wilcox. This time around, Carminatti is cast as Marius Andreani, a cultured Italian diplomat. While in London on business, Marius makes the chance acquaintance of boisterous cockney street entertainer Jacqueline (Neagle). It's love at first sight, but hero and heroine must undergo a dizzying series of roadblocks and misunderstandings before the climactic clinch. Meanwhile, Jacqueline rises to the top of show-business success, never dreaming (until the end, at least) that it's all the secret handiwork of faithful Marius.
Pagliacci (1936)
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Richard Tauber, Steffi Duna, Arthur Margetson, Esmond Knight, Jerry Verno
Roles Writer
Rating61%
China Seas (1935)
, 1h27Directed by Tay Garnett, William A. Wellman, Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley
Roles Writer
Rating68%
Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) is the captain of a tramp steamer chugging between Singapore and Hong Kong. Dolly Portland (Jean Harlow) is Alan's former girlfriend who books passage on the steamer at the same time that another of Alan's former loves, aristocratic Sybil Barclay (Rosalind Russell), shows up. Jamesy McArdle (Wallace Beery) is a passenger, who is actually in league with a gang of pirates who plan to steal the gold shipment being carried on the steamer.
The Bishop Misbehaves (1935)
, 1h25Directed by Ewald André Dupont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Reginald Owen, Dudley Digges, Norman Foster
Rating65%
The Bishop of Broadminster, an avid reader of detective fiction, is drawn into a mysterious case of crime.
The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
, 1h24Directed by Richard Boleslawski, Edgar Selwyn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allan, Lewis Stone, Ralph Forbes, Henry Stephenson, Forrester Harvey
Rating68%
London police constables are being killed by a man calling himself "Mr. X" (Leonard Mudie). By chance, one of the murders occurs around the same time and place as a diamond robbery, leading Police Commissioner Sir Herbert Frensham (Henry Stephenson) to suspect the same man is responsible for both, much to the annoyance of the thief, Nicholas "Nick" Revel (Robert Montgomery), and his confederates, taxi driver Joseph "Joe" Palmer (Forrester Harvey) and insurance clerk Hutchinson (Ivan F. Simpson).
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Directed by Lesley Selander, Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Dudley Digges, Lucile Watson, Donald Crisp
Rating65%
Alick Wylie (David Torrence) and his sons David (Donald Crisp) and James (Dudley Digges) are greatly concerned about Alick's daughter Maggie (Helen Hayes), who has been jilted by a minister. She is less than heartbroken, but they fear for her marital prospects at the age of 27. When they catch poor but ambitious 21-year-old John Shand (Brian Ahern) breaking into their house late at night to use their library, they seize the opportunity. Impressed by his initiative, they offer him £300 to finance his studies provided that he give Maggie the option of marrying him after five years. After some thought, he agrees. The Wylies insist he sign a formal contract.