Norma Varden
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1898-01-20
Locus Natus: London, England, UK
Et ut: Norma Varden Shackleton
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who...
release : 1953.07.14popularis : 14.775
Strangers on a Train
Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur...
release : 1951.06.27popularis : 14.877
The Good Fellows
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he...
release : 1943.08.11popularis : 1.577
Random Harvest
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
release : 1942.12.17popularis : 6.435
Road to Zanzibar
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
release : 1941.04.11popularis : 3.426
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese...
release : 1982.05.21popularis : 5.983
Witness for the Prosecution
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf....
release : 1957.12.17popularis : 14.913
The Sound of Music
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain...
release : 1965.03.29popularis : 30.677
13 Frightened Girls
While attending a Swiss school for diplomats' daughters, the teenage daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to...
release : 1963.04.18popularis : 2.265
Five Minutes to Live
A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works.
release : 1961.12.07popularis : 2.675
Doctor Dolittle
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
release : 1967.12.05popularis : 12.443
Where There's Life
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality,...
release : 1947.11.21popularis : 1.919
The Major and the Minor
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old...
release : 1942.09.16popularis : 4.137
Thunder on the Hill
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly...
release : 1951.10.17popularis : 3.268
Mademoiselle Fifi
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors....
release : 1944.07.28popularis : 1.208
Where There's a Will
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with...
release : 1936.08.10popularis : 1.485
Les Miserables
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his...
release : 1952.08.14popularis : 4.059
The Green Years
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather...
release : 1946.07.04popularis : 2.631
Loose in London
The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
release : 1953.05.24popularis : 3.834
Flying with Music
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with...
release : 1942.05.22popularis : 1.283
Windbag the Sailor
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales...
release : 1936.12.01popularis : 1.78
Boys Will Be Boys
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who...
release : 1935.07.01popularis : 2.242
Jupiter's Darling
Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius'...
release : 1955.02.18popularis : 3.145
The Earl of Chicago
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
release : 1940.01.05popularis : 1.15
Kisses for My President
A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
release : 1964.08.21popularis : 2.468
We Were Dancing
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American...
release : 1942.04.30popularis : 2.174
What a Woman
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
release : 1943.12.29popularis : 0.512
Adventure in Baltimore
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do...
release : 1949.04.19popularis : 1.444
The Searching Wind
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in...
release : 1946.08.09popularis : 0.863
Three Coins in the Fountain
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a...
release : 1954.05.01popularis : 3.714
The Glass Key
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
release : 1942.09.08popularis : 5.557
Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
release : 1943.01.15popularis : 33.219
Dirty Work
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
release : 1934.12.07popularis : 0.514
The Buccaneer
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will...
release : 1958.12.11popularis : 4.838
Ivy
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr....
release : 1947.06.26popularis : 1.268
Turkey Time
A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished...
release : 1933.12.01popularis : 0.826
Make-Up
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an...
release : 1937.06.28popularis : 1.203
Dixie
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...
release : 1943.06.23popularis : 3.48
Hold That Blonde!
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find...
release : 1945.11.23popularis : 1.385
A Very Special Favor
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
release : 1965.08.02popularis : 2.821
Shipyard Sally
A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them...
release : 1939.09.30popularis : 1.476
Those Endearing Young Charms
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.
release : 1945.06.19popularis : 2.033
Get Off My Foot
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
release : 1935.11.12popularis : 0.319
Crime on the Hill
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich...
release : 1933.12.27popularis : 0.427
National Velvet
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter,...
release : 1945.01.26popularis : 12.074
Scotland Yard
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president...
release : 1941.04.03popularis : 0.563
Girls of the Big House
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the...
release : 1945.11.02popularis : 1.615
Young Bess
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I....
release : 1953.05.29popularis : 2.201
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the...
release : 1960.11.20popularis : 1.211
Forever Amber
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of...
release : 1947.10.10popularis : 6.631
Foreign Affaires
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
release : 1935.11.21popularis : 0.648
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master...
release : 1943.09.17popularis : 7
Waterloo Bridge
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young...
release : 1940.05.17popularis : 9.213
Happy
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
release : 1933.12.11popularis : 0.901
The Cheaters
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity...
release : 1945.07.15popularis : 2.22
The Student's Romance
A Student's Romance was based on the operetta I Lost My Heart in Heidelburg, which in turn owed a lot to that old chestnut The Student Prince. In...
release : 1935.01.01popularis : 1.31
Bring on the Girls
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort...
release : 1945.03.30popularis : 1.003
Fancy Pants
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The...
release : 1950.07.19popularis : 2.209
In the Money
The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
release : 1958.02.16popularis : 2.614
The Iron Duke
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
release : 1934.11.30popularis : 1.214
The Trouble with Women
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating...
release : 1947.06.25popularis : 3.178
A Night Like This
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is...
release : 1932.03.16popularis : 0.569
East Meets West
The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with...
release : 1936.08.26popularis : 0.641
Istanbul Express
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the...
release : 1969.03.07popularis : 2.031
Mr. District Attorney
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
release : 1941.03.27popularis : 1.457
Johnny Doughboy
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group...
release : 1942.12.31popularis : 1.651
Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
release : 1943.04.01popularis : 2.803
The Amazing Mr. X
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark...
release : 1948.07.29popularis : 4.743
Stormy Weather
Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but...
release : 1935.08.01popularis : 0.779
Let's Live a Little
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former...
release : 1948.12.09popularis : 1.033
The White Cliffs of Dover
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a...
release : 1944.05.11popularis : 4.211
Mimi
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
release : 1935.03.28popularis : 1.127
The Secret Garden
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those...
release : 1949.04.30popularis : 8.06
Island of Love
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's...
release : 1963.06.12popularis : 2.761
Evergreen
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she...
release : 1934.04.01popularis : 1.331
Wanted!
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves...
release : 1937.08.23popularis : 0.318
Fire Over England
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the...
release : 1937.03.05popularis : 3.296
Music Hath Charms
This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.
release : 1936.03.02popularis : 0.991
Rome Adventure
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job...
release : 1962.04.21popularis : 3.959
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
release : 1936.07.28popularis : 3.125
The Miracle
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
release : 1959.11.12popularis : 3.953
The Chance of a Night Time
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him...
release : 1931.05.15popularis : 0.587
The Glorious Adventure
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
release : 1922.04.23popularis : 0.565
Rhythm Racketeer
A Chicago gangster steals jewels and frames his band leader double.
release : 1937.10.01popularis : 0.876
Millie's Daughter
An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
release : 1947.03.20popularis : 0.526
Doc
An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can't...
release : 1969.07.28popularis : 0.714
Glamour Boy
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living...
release : 1941.12.05popularis : 1.833
Hollow Triumph
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
release : 1948.08.18popularis : 4.829