C. Aubrey Smith
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1863-07-19
Locus Natus: London, England, UK
Et ut: Charles Aubrey Smith, Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, Sir C. Aubrey Smith, Sir Aubrey Smith, Aubrey Smith, Ч. Обри Смит, Чарльз Обри Смит, Сир Обри Смит, Сир Ч. Обри Смит, Сир Чарльз Обри Смит, Обри Смит
Trouble in Paradise
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide...
release : 1932.10.30popularis : 9.325
Rebecca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...
release : 1940.03.23popularis : 14.076
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible...
release : 1941.08.12popularis : 11.071
Show People
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
release : 1928.11.20popularis : 4.829
And Then There Were None
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at...
release : 1945.10.31popularis : 14.983
Little Lord Fauntleroy
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his...
release : 1936.03.06popularis : 5.108
Beyond Tomorrow
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought...
release : 1940.05.10popularis : 5.314
Queen Christina
The popular monarch, Queen Christina of Sweden, must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
release : 1933.12.26popularis : 10.209
The Scarlet Empress
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted...
release : 1934.05.09popularis : 10.644
Love Me Tonight
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
release : 1932.08.18popularis : 5.824
Morning Glory
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a...
release : 1933.08.18popularis : 4.784
An Ideal Husband
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to...
release : 1947.11.14popularis : 2.985
Tarzan the Ape Man
James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich....
release : 1932.04.02popularis : 12.631
Another Thin Man
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
release : 1939.11.17popularis : 15.916
The Florentine Dagger
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
release : 1935.03.30popularis : 2.153
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil...
release : 1949.03.10popularis : 16.309
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
release : 1943.01.21popularis : 2.311
Madame Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism...
release : 1943.12.16popularis : 5.184
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 : 10.994
Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
release : 1933.10.13popularis : 5.869
The Prisoner of Zenda
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
release : 1937.09.03popularis : 7.046
Wee Willie Winkie
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he...
release : 1937.07.30popularis : 4.284
Romeo and Juliet
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
release : 1936.09.03popularis : 9.635
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader...
release : 1935.01.11popularis : 4.052
The Right to Live
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
release : 1935.01.26popularis : 2.135
City of Chance
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
release : 1940.01.13popularis : 1.506
Five Came Back
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off...
release : 1939.06.23popularis : 5.692
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 : 6.498
China Seas
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only...
release : 1935.08.09popularis : 4.37
Cluny Brown
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
release : 1946.06.02popularis : 5.609
Lloyd's of London
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure,...
release : 1936.11.25popularis : 5.483
Unconquered
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a...
release : 1947.10.10popularis : 23.519
The Gilded Lily
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly...
release : 1935.01.25popularis : 3.028
The House of Rothschild
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the...
release : 1934.04.07popularis : 5.25
Eternally Yours
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a...
release : 1939.10.07popularis : 4.305
The Hurricane
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community...
release : 1937.11.09popularis : 5.147
The Phantom of Paris
Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
release : 1931.09.12popularis : 4.471
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to...
release : 1937.11.25popularis : 6.866
The Crusades
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
release : 1935.08.21popularis : 4.432
The Man in Possession
A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.
release : 1931.07.04popularis : 3.922
The Adventures of Mark Twain
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
release : 1944.07.20popularis : 2.631
One More River
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
release : 1934.08.06popularis : 3.3
A Bill of Divorcement
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
release : 1940.05.31popularis : 0.618
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
release : 1938.05.27popularis : 6.082
Balalaika
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
release : 1939.12.15popularis : 3.047
The Garden of Allah
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
release : 1936.10.14popularis : 8.456
Gambling Lady
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks...
release : 1934.03.08popularis : 3.476
Luxury Liner
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
release : 1933.02.03popularis : 6.204
Maisie Was a Lady
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds...
release : 1941.01.10popularis : 6.434
Flesh and Fantasy
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who...
release : 1943.10.29popularis : 7.38
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As...
release : 1931.05.16popularis : 3.56
Four Men and a Prayer
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
release : 1938.04.29popularis : 4.894
Guilty Hands
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
release : 1931.08.22popularis : 5.725
Curtain at Eight
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? ...
release : 1933.10.01popularis : 4.045
Son of India
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
release : 1931.08.01popularis : 6.874
Just a Gigolo
A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young British socialite. Comedy.
release : 1931.06.06popularis : 1.467
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed....
release : 1934.08.15popularis : 6.028
But the Flesh Is Weak
A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
release : 1932.04.09popularis : 2.98
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After...
release : 1944.07.26popularis : 4.686
No More Orchids
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
release : 1932.11.25popularis : 6.438
Adorable
Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.
release : 1933.05.18popularis : 2.715
Polly of the Circus
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates,...
release : 1932.02.27popularis : 2.815
We Live Again
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that...
release : 1934.11.01popularis : 6.377
Birds of Prey
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he...
release : 1930.11.18popularis : 1.481
The Sun Never Sets
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa...
release : 1939.05.31popularis : 2.757
Sensations of 1945
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at...
release : 1944.06.30popularis : 2.034
The Bachelor Father
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses...
release : 1931.01.10popularis : 1.505
The Firebird
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old...
release : 1934.11.03popularis : 2.765
The Builder of Bridges
Edward Thursfield, chief engineer of the bridge building firm of Henry Killick and Company, is building the largest concrete bridge in the world....
release : 1915.05.31popularis : 1.309
John Glayde's Honor
John Glayde is a stone-hearted man intent on wealth to elevate his family, losing his wife to another man in the process.
release : 1915.10.15popularis : 0.373
The Barbarian
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
release : 1933.05.12popularis : 6.066
Jaffery
Jaffery Chayne is the spectacular one of four chums, the others being Hilary Freeth, a literary man, Adrian Boldero, a short story writer, and Tom...
release : 1916.07.15popularis : 0.598
The Witching Hour
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently...
release : 1916.12.10popularis : 0.734
Red Pottage
A lady's lover draws spills with her husband to decide who shall commit suicide.
release : 1918.06.01popularis : 1.755
Castles in Spain
An author's nephew loves his mother's companion, who turns out to the the author's bastard.
release : 1920.06.01popularis : 0.857
The Shuttle of Life
An actress poses as an heiress who died, and dies fighting blackmailing detectives in a burning house.
release : 1920.11.01popularis : 0.983
The Temptation of Carlton Earle
A doctor poisons his dying friend and is framed by his valet for poisoning his wife's first husband.
release : 1923.03.01popularis : 1.873
The Rejected Woman
Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...
release : 1924.05.04popularis : 3.098
Two Tickets to London
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
release : 1943.06.14popularis : 1.264
Scotland Yard Investigator
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
release : 1945.09.30popularis : 4.033
Daybreak
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
release : 1931.05.02popularis : 4.523
Secrets
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his...
release : 1933.03.16popularis : 3.824
The Bohemian Girl
A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
release : 1922.07.27popularis : 1.743
Clive of India
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals...
release : 1935.01.25popularis : 4.619
The Unwanted
A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.
release : 1924.04.22popularis : 0.96
A Little Bit of Heaven
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to...
release : 1940.10.10popularis : 2.839
Passion Flower
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
release : 1930.12.06popularis : 3.163
Caravan
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
release : 1934.12.30popularis : 3.147
The Four Feathers
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
release : 1939.04.20popularis : 16.338
East Side of Heaven
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
release : 1939.04.07popularis : 2.166
The Under-Pup
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed...
release : 1939.08.31popularis : 2.325
Jalna
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
release : 1935.08.09popularis : 2.078
The Tunnel
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
release : 1935.10.27popularis : 3.23
Surrender
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
release : 1931.12.06popularis : 2.453
Rendezvous with Annie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two...
release : 1946.07.22popularis : 4.077
The Monkey's Paw
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
release : 1933.01.13popularis : 2.471
Free and Easy
This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max...
release : 1941.02.28popularis : 1.455
Forever Yours
A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting...
release : 1945.01.26popularis : 1.704
Victoria the Great
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule...
release : 1937.09.01popularis : 2.238
Trader Horn
While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her...
release : 1931.02.03popularis : 2.163
Sixty Glorious Years
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
release : 1938.11.18popularis : 1.259
Contraband Love
'Cornwall. Detective poses as escaped convict to catch smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1931.04.01popularis : 1.516
Cleopatra
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
release : 1934.10.05popularis : 7.562
Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
release : 1935.12.01popularis : 2.137
Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...
release : 2003.05.06popularis : 3.674
Hollywood Extra Girl
A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
release : 1935.08.22popularis : 1.665
They Just Had to Get Married
Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to...
release : 1933.01.05popularis : 1.814
High Conquest
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
release : 1947.06.21popularis : 1.407
The Face at the Window
A detective is on the verge of revealing the identity of an elusive criminal. At the crucial moment, hedrops dead, the victim of foul play. A...
release : 1920.04.01popularis : 0.417
The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
A educational drama about Tuberculosis.
release : 1936.04.26popularis : 1.493
Terror by Night
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune...
release : 1946.02.01popularis : 9.293
Flames of Passion
Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given to the chauffeur's wife. The chauffeur, on a...
release : 1922.11.01popularis : 2.378
Luxury Liner
Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio...
release : 1948.11.09popularis : 1.391
The Bump
A famous explorer is unable to find his way across London.
release : 1920.10.01popularis : 2.059