Elisabeth Risdon Trailers
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Elisabeth Risdon (born Daisy Cartwright Risdon; 26 April 1887 – 20 December 1958) was an English film actress. She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1952. A beauty in her youth, she usually played in society parts. In later years in films she switched to playing character parts.
Born in London, England, Risdon graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in 1918 with high honours. She attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw and was cast as the lead in his biggest plays. Besides her performances for Shaw, she was leading lady for actors including George Arliss, Otis Skinner, and William Faversham. She was also under contract to the Theatre Guild for many years.
In later years, she taught drama to patients at a veterans administration hospital near her Brentwood home. She was married to the prolific silent film director George Loane Tucker who left her a widow in 1921. She later married actor Brandon Evans, who died in April 1958. She was the great-aunt of actress Wendy Barrie-Wilson.
Risdon died in December 1958 in St Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California from a cerebral haemorrhage. Her body was donated to medical science.
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26 June 1942
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
08 July 1938
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
17 October 1950
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
25 October 1939
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
28 November 1941
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
23 December 1943
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper.
05 December 1944
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally, a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye.
17 December 1942
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII.
20 November 1951
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern.
09 July 1938
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
21 March 1941
Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall.
01 March 1944
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals.
19 November 1943
Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
11 January 1940
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family.
15 May 1951
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap.
01 September 1950
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances.
24 December 1938
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
08 September 1939
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
21 February 1941
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane.
01 May 1947
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country.
04 January 1947
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office.
16 February 1940
Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract.
08 May 1952
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
19 September 1940
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard.
23 June 1939
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 course.
24 April 1945
A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.
04 May 1940
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
25 December 1948
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician.
27 August 1937
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
01 February 1942
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
15 June 1942
George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child.
08 March 1951
Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job.
15 April 1937
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
20 July 1944
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
17 January 1941
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
05 November 1948
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II.
27 February 1938
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him.
07 July 1936
A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.
12 January 1940
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
19 February 1943
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
21 February 1950
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else.
05 May 1939
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
19 February 1945
Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.
01 January 1914
A man poses as a woman to fool a peeping tom.
01 March 1941
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
15 March 1940
In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing.
09 September 1938
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
28 February 1936
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings.
18 October 1940
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
02 November 1935
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday.
19 November 1947
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin.
10 February 1939
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
01 January 1914
A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?
28 October 1939
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver.
07 July 1939
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
05 March 1915
The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).
12 October 1951
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
12 September 1946
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen.
29 September 1944
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered.
14 July 1937
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day.
