Norma Varden
Norma Varden Shackleton (20 January 1898 – 19 January 1989), known professionally as Norma Varden, was an English-American actress with a long film career.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.62 |
| Birthday | 1898-01-20 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Norma Varden Shackleton, |
1953
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
7.3/944
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thin...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1951
Strangers on a Train
7.671/1640
Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur ten...
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Strangers on a Train
1943
The Good Fellows
0/0
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forge...
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The Good Fellows
1942
Random Harvest
7.2/100
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
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Random Harvest
1941
Road to Zanzibar
6.31/29
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
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Road to Zanzibar
1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.627/375
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1957
Witness for the Prosecution
8.2/1363
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf....
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Witness for the Prosecution
1965
The Sound of Music
7.7/3215
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain wi...
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The Sound of Music
1963
13 Frightened Girls
5.4/21
While attending a Swiss school for diplomats' daughters, the teenage daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engag...
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13 Frightened Girls
1961
Five Minutes to Live
5.8/16
A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works.
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Five Minutes to Live
1967
Doctor Dolittle
6.101/173
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
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Doctor Dolittle
1947
Where There's Life
5.6/5
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael...
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Where There's Life
1942
The Major and the Minor
7/125
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old t...
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The Major and the Minor
1951
Thunder on the Hill
6.4/29
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becomin...
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Thunder on the Hill
1944
Mademoiselle Fifi
5.8/6
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. Bu...
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Mademoiselle Fifi
1936
Where There's a Will
6.6/5
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with hi...
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Where There's a Will
1952
Les Miserables
5.4/15
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pu...
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Les Miserables
1946
The Green Years
6.385/13
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stan...
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The Green Years
1953
Loose in London
5.1/4
The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
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Loose in London
1942
Flying with Music
2.8/4
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with severa...
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Flying with Music
1936
Windbag the Sailor
7.7/8
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catc...
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Windbag the Sailor
1935
Boys Will Be Boys
6.2/15
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who ha...
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Boys Will Be Boys
1955
Jupiter's Darling
4.3/6
Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius' fiancée, A...
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Jupiter's Darling
1940
The Earl of Chicago
5.6/5
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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The Earl of Chicago
1964
Kisses for My President
7/6
A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
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Kisses for My President
1942
We Were Dancing
4.2/4
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American s...
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We Were Dancing
1943
What a Woman
5.8/3
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
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What a Woman
1949
Adventure in Baltimore
4.9/7
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do...
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Adventure in Baltimore
1946
The Searching Wind
0/0
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Euro...
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The Searching Wind
1954
Three Coins in the Fountain
5.9/48
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a sec...
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Three Coins in the Fountain
1942
The Glass Key
6.6/114
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Glass Key
1943
Casablanca
8.2/5332
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Casablanca
1934
Dirty Work
0/0
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
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Dirty Work
1958
The Buccaneer
6.4/45
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will...
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The Buccaneer
1947
Ivy
6.8/23
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roge...
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Ivy
1933
Turkey Time
0/0
A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished co...
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Turkey Time
1937
Make-Up
0/0
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an i...
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Make-Up
1943
Dixie
3/1
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...
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Dixie
1945
Hold That Blonde!
7/6
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another...
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Hold That Blonde!
1965
A Very Special Favor
5.7/8
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
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A Very Special Favor
1939
Shipyard Sally
4/1
A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them...
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Shipyard Sally
1945
Those Endearing Young Charms
0/0
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.
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Those Endearing Young Charms
1935
Get Off My Foot
0/0
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
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Get Off My Foot
1933
Crime on the Hill
6.5/1
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man'...
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Crime on the Hill
1945
National Velvet
7.3/102
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velv...
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National Velvet
1941
Scotland Yard
0/0
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planni...
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Scotland Yard
1945
Girls of the Big House
6/1
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the b...
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Girls of the Big House
1953
Young Bess
5.9/17
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je...
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Young Bess
1960
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
6.5/2
Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disney...
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Moochie of Pop Warner Football
1947
Forever Amber
6.058/26
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavalie...
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Forever Amber
1935
Foreign Affaires
0/0
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
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Foreign Affaires
1943
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
6.9/75
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master dete...
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1940
Waterloo Bridge
7.5/144
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young...
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Waterloo Bridge
1933
Happy
2/1
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
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Happy
1945
The Cheaters
6.6/8
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicate...
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The Cheaters
1935
The Student's Romance
5/3
A Student's Romance was based on the operetta I Lost My Heart in Heidelburg, which in turn owed a lot to that old chestnut The Student Prince. In 1825...
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The Student's Romance
1945
Bring on the Girls
6.1/5
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hote...
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Bring on the Girls
1950
Fancy Pants
5.625/16
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The compli...
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Fancy Pants
1958
In the Money
7/1
The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
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In the Money
1934
The Iron Duke
0/0
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The Iron Duke
1947
The Trouble with Women
0/0
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wif...
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The Trouble with Women
1932
A Night Like This
0/0
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is...
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A Night Like This
1936
East Meets West
0/0
The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with...
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East Meets West
1969
Istanbul Express
5.1/7
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbu...
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Istanbul Express
1941
Mr. District Attorney
6.167/6
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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Mr. District Attorney
1942
Johnny Doughboy
5.5/6
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group o...
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Johnny Doughboy
1943
Slightly Dangerous
5.8/6
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Slightly Dangerous
1948
The Amazing Mr. X
6.2/39
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark ma...
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The Amazing Mr. X
1935
Stormy Weather
0/0
Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continua...
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Stormy Weather
1948
Let's Live a Little
6.3/3
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fianc...
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Let's Live a Little
1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
6.7/21
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whir...
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The White Cliffs of Dover
1935
Mimi
5.2/4
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
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Mimi
1949
The Secret Garden
7.2/30
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she...
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The Secret Garden
1963
Island of Love
5.3/5
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripp...
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Island of Love
1962
Rome Adventure
5.4/14
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job...
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Rome Adventure
1959
The Miracle
6.7/7
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
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The Miracle
1922
The Glorious Adventure
4/1
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
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The Glorious Adventure
1931
The Chance of a Night Time
0/0
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken fo...
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The Chance of a Night Time
1934
Evergreen
6.2/9
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappea...
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Evergreen
1936
Music Hath Charms
0/0
This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.
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Music Hath Charms
1936
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
6.885/26
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
1937
Fire Over England
6.015/34
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the ti...
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Fire Over England
1937
Wanted!
0/0
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves ar...
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Wanted!
1937
Rhythm Racketeer
5/1
A Chicago gangster steals jewels and frames his band leader double.
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Rhythm Racketeer
1947
Millie's Daughter
1/1
An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
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Millie's Daughter
1969
Doc
0/0
An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can't re...
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Doc
1941
Glamour Boy
6/1
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living...
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Glamour Boy
1948
Hollow Triumph
6.5/49
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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