Edith Evans — Actor (16)
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The Chalk Garden (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Chalk Garden
director: Ronald Neame actor: Deborah Kerr / Hayley Mills …
other title: Il giardino di gesso / Das Haus im Kreidegarten …
The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the cliffs of the English south coast. Edith Evans plays a matriarchal grandmother who, in raising her granddaughter, has neglected her other love – a barren chalk garden. Mayhem ensues as Laurel's behavior frightens away a succession of governesses until an enigmatic one is hired in spite of her mysterious references. She skillfully sets about tending to the girl's reckless emotions and the pitifully failed garden.
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Young Cassidy (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Young Cassidy
director: Jack Cardiff actor: Rod Taylor / Julie Christie …
other title: Il magnifico irlandese / O Rebelde Sonhador …
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
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Fitzwilly (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fitzwilly
director: Delbert Mann actor: Dick Van Dyke / Barbara Feldon …
other title: Ladri sprint / Die Lady und ihre Gauner …
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
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Prudence and the Pill (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Prudence and the Pill
director: Fielder Cook / Ronald Neame actor: Deborah Kerr / David Niven …
other title: Prudenza e la pillola / Sarilhos Conjugais …
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?
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The Queen of Spades (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Queen of Spades
director: Thorold Dickinson actor: Anton Walbrook / Edith Evans …
other title: La donna di picche / La Reine des cartes …
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
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The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Madwoman of Chaillot
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Katharine Hepburn / Charles Boyer …
other title: La pazza di Chaillot / Die Irre von Chaillot …
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
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The Whisperers (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Whisperers
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Edith Evans / Eric Portman …
other title: Flüsternde Wände / Les Chuchoteurs …
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
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Craze (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Craze
director: Freddie Francis actor: Jack Palance / Diana Dors …
other title: Il buio macchiato di rosso / Dämon des Grauens …
A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers human sacrifice.
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The New Cinema (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The New Cinema
director: Gary Young actor: Francis Ford Coppola / Edith Evans …
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [Movie] TMDB
The Importance of Being Earnest
director: Anthony Asquith actor: Michael Redgrave / Michael Denison …
other title: L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto / Ernst sein ist alles …
Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack's wayward brother and is keen on his raffish lifestyle. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest's identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily.
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The Nun's Story (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Nun's Story
director: Fred Zinnemann actor: Audrey Hepburn / Peter Finch …
other title: La storia di una monaca / Nonnen …
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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Tom Jones (1963) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Tom Jones
director: Tony Richardson actor: Albert Finney / Susannah York …
other title: Tom Jones, Romântico e Aventureiro / Tom Jones - Zwischen Bett und Galgen …
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?