Barbara Everest

Barbara Everest

June 18, 1890

Barbara Everest (19 June 1890 – 9 February 1968) was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film The Man Without a Soul. On stage she played Queen Anne in the 1935 historical play Viceroy Sarah by Norman Ginsbury. Her most famous…

Known For

10 titles
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Gaslight

Gaslight

1944 · 1h 54m · Movie

Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wif...

7.8
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The Uninvited

The Uninvited

1944 · 1h 39m · Movie

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.

7.2
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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1943 · 1h 37m · Movie

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.

7.5
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Phantom of the Opera

Phantom of the Opera

1943 · 1h 32m · Movie

An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career.

6.4
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An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls

1954 · 1h 20m · Movie

A wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.

7.5
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Scrooge

Scrooge

1935 · 1h 18m · Movie

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas...

6.4
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Madeleine

Madeleine

1950 · 1h 41m · Movie

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.

6.9
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Commandos Strike at Dawn

Commandos Strike at Dawn

1942 · 1h 38m · Movie

A gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.

6.5
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The Man Who Finally Died

The Man Who Finally Died

1963 · 1h 38m · Movie

A mysterious call summons Joe Newman to Bavaria in search of the father he believed dead for 20 years.

6.1
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Frieda

Frieda

1947 · 1h 38m · Movie

A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.

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