Cathleen NesbittFilmography

Night Cries

Synopsis: Expectant mother Susan Saint James goes into labor and is carted off to a somewhat forbidding hospital. When she awakens, she is told that her baby has died. The grieving Saint James reluctantly resumes her life as a schoolteacher. But not long afterward, she is haunted by bizarre dreams Read More

Full Circle

Actors: Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Jill Bennett, Robin Gammell

Synopsis: The British/Canadian Full Circle is better known by its American title, The Haunting of Julia. The eponymous Julia, played by Mia Farrow, is driven to near-madness by the death of her daughter. Things don't get much better when Julia and her husband move into a forbidding old mansion. The events Read More

Julia

Actors: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Jr., Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while the adult Hellman (Jane Fonda) struggles to establish herself as a playwright with the help of her lover, Dashiell Hammett Read More

Family Plot

Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the Read More

The French Connection II

Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: This sequel to the Oscar-winning The French Connection picks up almost exactly where the earlier film leaves off. Still on the trail of drug kingpin Frog One (Fernando Rey), narcotics officer "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) leaves his Manhattan stomping grounds and heads for Marseilles. There Read More

The Aspern Affair

Villain

Actors: Shirley Cain, Wendy Hutchinson, Lindy Miller, Bonita Thomas, Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: This melodramatic crime drama tells the story of homosexual gang leader Vic Dakin (Richard Burton), who likes a bit of rough sex with his petty criminal pal Wolfe (Ian McShane). Aside from payroll robberies, his gang is not above blackmailing sexually deviant members of Parliament. A Scotland Yard Read More

The Trygon Factor

Actors: Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Robert Morley, Cathleen Nesbitt, Brigitte Horney

Synopsis: A Scotland Yard inspector is called on to investigate a series of unsolved robberies in The Trygon Factor. Inspector Cooper-Smith (Stewart Granger) ends up at the country manor of a respectable English family. Livia Emberday (Cathleen Nesbitt) is the mistress of the house who has turned to crime Read More

Staircase

Actors: Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cathleen Nesbitt, Beatrix Lehmann, Gordon Heath

Synopsis: Homosexuality is only incidentally important in this drama of dependence and intimacy between two aging hair stylists, and nothing shocking to staid and heterosexual sensibilities takes place in this movie, a star turn for Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. Whether the original play was as patently Read More

The Farmer's Daughter: Season 03

Actors: Inger Stevens, William Windom, Cathleen Nesbitt, Mickey Sholdar, Rory O'Brien

Promise Her Anything

Actors: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Keenan Wynn, Hermione Gingold

Synopsis: A woman has to choose between the rich man she wants and the bohemian type who loves her in this comedy. Michele O'Brien (Leslie Caron) is a young widow raising a baby in Greenwich Village. She's decided that her child needs a father, and she determines that her best bet as a prospective mate is Read More

The Farmer's Daughter: Season 02

Actors: Inger Stevens, William Windom, Cathleen Nesbitt, Mickey Sholdar, Rory O'Brien

The Farmer's Daughter: Season 01

Actors: Inger Stevens, William Windom, Cathleen Nesbitt, Mickey Sholdar, Rory O'Brien

Shirley Temple Storybook Collection: The Little Mermaid

Actors: Shirley Temple, Nina Foch, Cathleen Nesbitt, Donald Harron, Ray Walston

The Parent Trap

Actors: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charlie Ruggles, Una Merkel

Synopsis: We get a double dose of Hayley Mills in this Disney vehicle: she plays 13-year-old identical twins Susan and Sharon, who meet for the very first time in summer camp. They soon learn that they were separated at a very early age when their parents Mitch and Maggie (Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara) Read More

Playhouse 90: Heart of Darkness

Separate Tables

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside hotel. Among the guests are an alleged war hero (David Niven), a timid spinster (Deborah Kerr) and her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper), and a divorced couple (Burt Read More

An Affair to Remember

Actors: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt

Synopsis: An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love Read More

The Women

Actors: Shelley Winters, Paulette Goddard, Ruth Hussey, Mary Astor, Nancy Olson

Synopsis: Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954-1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color, 90-minute specials, bringing the best of Broadway to the 21-inch screen. One of the more memorable presentations in this anthology was director Vincent Donahue's live staging of Clare Boothe Luce's Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis: Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) takes in young actress Nanny Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner) while his wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town. When Nancy is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, the two prime suspects are Peter and the neglected husband (Reginald Gardiner) of temperamental Read More

Three Coins in the Fountain

Actors: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamara

Synopsis: Adapted by playwright John Patrick from a novel by famed globetrotter/filmmaker John H. Secondari, Three Coins in the Fountain offers the splendors of Rome in Technicolor, CinemaScope and Stereophonic Sounds. For all its lovely picture-postcard images, the film is at base a reworking of 20th Read More

Desiree

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: Director Henry Koster and writer Daniel Taradash speculate mightily in this historical tableau charting the rise and fall of Napoleon (Marlon Brando), all due to his unrequited love for noblewoman Desiree (Jean Simmons). The film takes a chronological view of Napoleon's reign and posits Napoleon's Read More

The Black Widow

Synopsis: Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of Black Widow. We don't know which of Sewell's real estate holdings served as the locale for this amnesia meller. We can, however, tell you that the film was inspired by the BBC Read More

So Long at the Fair

Actors: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Honor Blackman, Marcel Poncin, Cathleen Nesbitt

Synopsis: So Long at the Fair is based on a true story -- or at least, a story that has been told and retold so often that it is now accepted as truth. The year is 1889: the setting, the Paris Exhibition. Among the thousands in attendance are Vicky Barton (Jean Simmons) and her brother Johnny (David Tomlinson Read More

Madness of the Heart

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Paul Dupuis, Kathleen Byron, Maxwell Reed, Thora Hird

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a London girl falls happily in love with a Frenchman and immediately goes blind. Convinced her affliction is a Divine punishment for her sins, she joins a convent. The good sisters know she does not belong there and gently convince her to leave. Shortly after returning to Read More

Jassy

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Basil Sydney, Dermot Walsh, Linden Travers

Synopsis: Low-hanging clouds and low-cut blouses dominate the brooding British melodrama Jassy. Margaret Lockwood is at her teeth-baring best as a tempestuous gypsy girl who is hired as a servant in an aristocratic 19th century household. Dennis Price is her handsome master, with whom she falls in love. Read More

Nicholas Nickleby

Actors: Jill Balcon, Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Fay Compton, Sally Ann Howes, Alfred Drayton, Sybil Thorndike, Cyril Fletcher, Mary Merrall

Synopsis: Though it pales in comparison to the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic staging of the original novel in the early 1980s, this compact adaptation of Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby is most entertaining on its own terms. Derek Bond plays the title character, a resourceful young Britisher forced to protect Read More

Carnival

Actors: Dennis Arundell, Marie Ault, Brenda Bruce

Synopsis: Of the many films (English and American) bearing the title Carnival, only one was based on the Compton MacKenzie novel of the same name. This 1946 melodrama stars Sally Gray as a 19th century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer (Bernard Miles). Read More

Caesar and Cleopatra

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar (Claude Rains) and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh). Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra are merely Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle cast back into ancient times with Caesar doting with admiration Read More

Men of Two Worlds

Actors: Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Orlando Martins, Robert Adams, Cyril Raymond

Synopsis: An aboriginal man is torn between the modern world in which he lives and the ancient culture in which he was brought up in this British drama. Kisenga (Robert Adams) is a musician and composer who has risen from his humble birth in a primitive African tribe to popular and critical success in Read More

The Agitator

Actors: William Hartnell, Mary Morris, John Laurie, Moore Marriott

Synopsis: Future Dr. Who star William Hartnell heads the cast of the 1949 sociopolitical melodrama The Agitator. Set in a British industrial town, the film stars Hartnell as idealistic union organizer Peter Pottinger. His value as an agitator is compromised when Peter falls heir to the very factory where he Read More

Man of Evil

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfred Lawson, Stewart Granger, Jean Kent

Synopsis: In this period drama from England, Fanny Hopwood (Phyllis Calvert), upon graduating from finishing school, returns to her family's home in London. However, bad luck awaits her at nearly every turn. After her father is killed in a fist fight by the aristocratic but dastardly Lord Manderstoke (James Mason Read More

The Lamp Still Burns

Actors: Rosamund John, Godfrey Tearle, Stewart Granger, Sophie Stewart, Margaret Vyner

Synopsis: Monica Dickens' novel One Pair of Feet was the source of the sociological drama The Lamp Still Burns. Like the original novel, the film is a plea for better conditions in English hospitals-and, more specifically, for better treatment of England's selfless nurses. Rosamund John is a tower of Read More

Chamber of Horrors

Actors: Leslie Banks, Lilli Palmer, Romilly Lunge, Gina Malo, Richard Bird

Synopsis: A blood-and-thunder horror yarn from the pen of Edgar Wallace, The Door With Seven Locks stars Leslie Banks as a mass murderer with a penchant for puzzles. He lures several heirs to a fortune to their deaths in his mazelike mansion, which is festooned with cryptic clues leading to the location of Read More

Pygmalion

Actors: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilfred Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland

Synopsis: Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in Anthony Asquith's and Leslie Howard's classic version of George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. Henry Higgins (Howard) is an upper class phonetics professor who encounters low-class guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Hiller) and bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland Read More

Little Dolly Daydream

Synopsis: In this sentimental drama, a young girl is taken away from her beloved mother and given to her cruel and evil aunt. The girl somehow sneaks away and becomes friends with an organ-grinder. Together, they round up a gang of criminals. In the end, the mother and daughter find their way back to each Read More

Knights for a Day

Synopsis: Visiting barber Nelson Keys becomes entangled in a revolution in the land of Ruritania in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Against the Tide

Hearts of Humanity

Synopsis: A clergyman is deeply dismayed to discover that his parishioners are more interested in investigating his past than to worshiping in the comedy. The congregation is so obsessed with their gossip mongering, that have little energy left to listen to his words of wisdom. Finally the good man must Read More

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Renee Ray, Frank Cellier, Anna Lee, John Turnbull

Synopsis: The Passing of the Third Floor Back, Jerome K. Jerome's mystical 1908 stage play, was given perfunctory treatment in this 1935 film version. Conrad Veidt assumes the old J. Forbes Robertson role as the Mysterious Stranger who moves into a cheap boarding house run by despicable landlord Wright (Frank Cellier Read More

Well Done, Henry

The Beloved Vagabond

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Betty Stockfeld, Margaret Lockwood, Desmond Tester, Austin Trevor

Synopsis: In this tuneful and sentimental romance, a young architect from France falls in love with his employer's daughter. Unfortunately, she feels differently and marries another. The loss inspires him to quit his job and return to France where he becomes a wanderer. Eventually he encounters a beautiful Read More

Trouble Ahead

Actors: Charles Farrell, Gregory Ratoff, Mary Lawson, H.F. Maltby, Diana Napier

Synopsis: Hollywood favorites Charles Farrell and Gregory Ratoff head the cast of the British romantic comedy Falling In Love. The film's real star, however, is young Mary Lawson, here making her cinema debut. The plot concerns a famous film star (Farrell) who seeks shelter from his mobs of fans by hiding Read More

Criminal at Large

Actors: Emlyn Williams, Cathleen Nesbitt, Norman McKinnel, Gordon Harker, Cyril Raymond

Synopsis: The Criminal at Large in this quota quickie murders his victims in the dark of night. There seems to be a pattern to the killer's activities, but darned if Chief Inspector Tanner (Norman McKinnel) can figure it out. It looks as though dilettante sleuth Lord Lebanon (Emlyn Williams) will have to Read More

Canaries Sometimes Sing

Actors: Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Athole Stewart, Cathleen Nesbitt

Synopsis: This bedroom farce was originally a play that centers on an unhappily married couple looking to change their lives. When they meet a similar couple, the four decide to trade mates for a while. Chaos erupts when the two husbands get drunk and begin thinking that each is insulting the wife of the Read More