Sonia Dresdel

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Sonia Dresdel (5 May 1909 - 18 January 1976) was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s. She was born Lois Obee in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England and was educated at Aberdeen High School for Girls. Her leading role in the 1947 film While I Live gained her a great deal of acclaim. In the film she plays Julia Trevelyan, a spinster living in a lonely cliff top house in Cornwall and haunted by the death of her sister 25 years earlier. Her most noted role was that of "Mrs. Baines" in the 1948 film version of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, which starred Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan. The film received Academy Awards nominations for Best Director (Sir Carol Reed) and Best Screenplay. She died of undisclosed causes, aged 66.

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The Break Trailer (1963)

07 July 1963

A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.

The Third Visitor Trailer (1951)

31 January 1951

Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him.

While I Live Trailer (1947)

07 October 1947

In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall.

The World Owes Me a Living Trailer (1945)

01 January 1945

When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.

The Clouded Yellow Trailer (1950)

21 November 1950

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton.

The Fallen Idol Trailer (1948)

30 September 1948

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

The Trials of Oscar Wilde Trailer (1960)

28 May 1960

England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.

Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary Trailer (1970)

25 June 1970

Set in 1923, a British author named Marie Stopes is having quite the tumultuous life until one day she attempts to sue Dr.

This Was a Woman Trailer (1948)

27 January 1948

The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them.

Now and Forever Trailer (1956)

10 September 1956

A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him.

Lady Caroline Lamb Trailer (1972)

22 November 1972

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

The Adventures of Alice Trailer (1960)

23 December 1960

Film "The Adventures of Alice" based on the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.