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1935
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The inimitable Gracie Fields illuminates the screen in her sole 1935 vehicle Look Up and Laugh. The Lancashire-born...
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1935
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In this British comedy, a proper teacher at a private girl's school secretly elopes with a wrestler. To conceal the wedding,...
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1934
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1935
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Anna Karenina
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1948
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Blanche Dubois
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1951
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George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar...
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Cleopatra
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1946
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The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over...
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Cynthia
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1937
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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Elsa Craddock
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1938
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Hester Collyer
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1955
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Vivien Leigh plays Karen Stone, a middle-aged actress whose career is in a tailspin. To assuage her hurt feelings, Karen goes...
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Karen Stone
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1961
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Lady Hamilton
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1941
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After befriending talented dancer and pickpocket Libby (Vivien Leigh), street performer Charles (Charles Saggers) strikes up...
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Libby
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1938
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Madeleine
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1937
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The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek...
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Mary Treadwell
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1965
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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Myra
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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Scarlett O'Hara
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1939
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Directed by Ian Dalrymple, this comedy of manners is based on a German play, and is one of the lesser known pieces of Vivien...
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Victoria Gow
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1937
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Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of British law, he is permitted...
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Wanda
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1940
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