Frieda Inescort Trailers
The Crowded Sky TrailerJuke Box Rhythm TrailerThe Alligator People Trailer
Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape.
Inescort's acting debut came in The Truth About Blayds (1922), which was presented at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include You and I (1923), The Woman on the Jury (1923), Windows (1923), The Fake (1924), Ariadne (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Love in a Mist (1926), Mozart (1926), Trelawny of the "Wells" (1927), Escape (1927-1928), Napi (1931), Company's Coming (1931), Springtime for Henry (1931-1932), When Ladies Meet (1933), False Dreams, Farewell (1934), Lady Jane (1934), Soldier's Wife (1944-1945), The Mermaids Singing (1945-1946) and You Never Can Tell (1948).
Frieda Wrightman adopted her mother's surname as her professional name and moved to Hollywood and made her film debut in The Dark Angel (1935). Her other films include Mary of Scotland (1936), The Letter (1940), The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941), You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and A Place in the Sun (1951).
She appeared with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson as the conniving Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film version of Pride and Prejudice. She had a leading role in Call It A Day, a 1937 film in which she appeared with Olivia de Havilland, Bonita Granville, Roland Young, and Ian Hunter. She appeared in at least one episode of Perry Mason, as Hope Quentin in "The Case of the Jealous Journalist" (season 5, 1961).
Most Popular Frieda Inescort Trailers
Total trailers found: 48
01 March 1941
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
01 December 1958
At a college party, a girl named Gay (Jill Corey) meets a guy named Tom (Paul Hampton) and they soon fall in love.
29 April 1943
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
03 March 1942
While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.
13 February 1937
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
26 June 1937
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave.
28 January 1953
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel.
02 September 1960
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio.
28 July 1936
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
16 July 1959
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
12 February 1941
A young boy seeks love and understanding from his cold, demanding father.
01 August 1956
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
24 February 1939
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented.
31 January 1940
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
13 July 1955
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
15 December 1947
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
09 April 1943
This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.
13 July 1942
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
19 February 1943
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
12 June 1951
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
26 July 1940
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood.
01 August 1959
An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.
06 February 1939
Woman Doctor is a 1939 American drama film
07 April 1954
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca.
21 November 1940
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
16 June 1939
A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own.
17 April 1937
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
20 October 1944
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.
05 October 1942
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood.
30 December 1935
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
11 November 1943
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster.
27 May 1936
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
02 May 1956
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
26 July 1950
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
08 September 1935
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan.
17 September 1936
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
25 December 1941
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
03 October 1942
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material.
08 November 1937
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon.
20 August 1936
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston.
14 February 1941
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense d
04 December 1955
An administrative assistant who may or may not have been the mistress of her firm’s deceased client receives a payout from the dead man’s widow and uses it to buy a stake in a Caribbean casino.
25 September 1941
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
10 October 1943
The fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War.
21 February 1936
Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play.
30 May 1941
A circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Features some spirited dance numbers with Ray Bolger.
03 October 1939
Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met.
26 May 1939
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
