May Robson
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May Robson (19 April 1858 - 20 October 1942) was an actress and playwright. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th century, Robson is best known today for the dozens of 1930s motion pictures she appeared in when she was well into her seventies, usually playing cross old ladies with hearts of gold.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.899 |
| Birthday | 1858-04-17 |
| Place of Birth | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Also Known As | Mary Jeanette Robison, |
1938
Bringing Up Baby
7.5/965
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo...
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Bringing Up Baby
1938
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
6.5/43
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witn...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1937
A Star Is Born
7.16/209
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...
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A Star Is Born
1933
Alice in Wonderland
6.1/55
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Alice in Wonderland
1939
They Made Me a Criminal
6.3/30
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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They Made Me a Criminal
1933
Lady for a Day
7.051/78
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York'...
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Lady for a Day
1933
Dancing Lady
7/37
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get...
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Dancing Lady
1942
Joan of Paris
6.4/11
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hid...
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Joan of Paris
1936
Wife vs. Secretary
6.8/49
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional...
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Wife vs. Secretary
1938
Four Daughters
6.4/25
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man...
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Four Daughters
1908
When Knights Were Bold
3.25/2
Two noblemen fight over a lady.
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When Knights Were Bold
1934
Lady by Choice
6/3
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.
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Lady by Choice
1935
Reckless
5.3/12
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
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Reckless
1935
Anna Karenina
6.59/83
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
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Anna Karenina
1941
Million Dollar Baby
6/3
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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Million Dollar Baby
1932
Red-Headed Woman
6.6/44
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force so...
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Red-Headed Woman
1933
Broadway to Hollywood
4.6/5
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
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Broadway to Hollywood
1932
If I Had a Million
6.6/39
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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If I Had a Million
1916
A Night Out
0/0
A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.
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A Night Out
1933
The Solitaire Man
6.5/5
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen...
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The Solitaire Man
1938
The Texans
5.6/4
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
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The Texans
1932
Little Orphan Annie
5.8/4
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on ano...
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Little Orphan Annie
1939
Four Wives
5.1/8
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her enga...
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Four Wives
1940
Irene
6/6
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charm...
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Irene
1937
The Perfect Specimen
5.7/5
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wish...
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The Perfect Specimen
1939
Daughters Courageous
6.2/9
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Ji...
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Daughters Courageous
1932
Strange Interlude
5.7/10
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the c...
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Strange Interlude
1941
Four Mothers
5.7/3
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Four Mothers
1932
Letty Lynton
6.8/8
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with...
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Letty Lynton
1939
That's Right – You're Wrong
5.7/3
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program...
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That's Right – You're Wrong
1933
The White Sister
5.4/6
An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
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The White Sister
1933
Men Must Fight
5.7/7
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
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Men Must Fight
1935
Strangers All
5.5/1
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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Strangers All
1935
Vanessa: Her Love Story
6/4
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
1933
Beauty for Sale
7/5
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of...
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Beauty for Sale
1934
Straight Is the Way
5.5/2
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
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Straight Is the Way
1933
Reunion in Vienna
7/3
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
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Reunion in Vienna
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1934
You Can't Buy Everything
7/1
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
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You Can't Buy Everything
1935
Grand Old Girl
6.5/2
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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Grand Old Girl
1933
One Man's Journey
7.1/10
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his so...
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One Man's Journey
1935
Age of Indiscretion
5.2/5
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with t...
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Age of Indiscretion
1939
Yes, My Darling Daughter
4/2
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend thei...
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
1940
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
5.5/3
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the g...
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
6.4/9
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-...
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Nurse Edith Cavell
1934
Mills of the Gods
0/0
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meet...
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Mills of the Gods
1927
Rubber Tires
6.5/4
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, th...
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Rubber Tires
1927
The Angel of Broadway
0/0
Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army gi...
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The Angel of Broadway
1933
Dinner at Eight
6.7/99
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t...
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Dinner at Eight
1927
Chicago
5.7/19
Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted....
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Chicago
1935
Movies on Sundays
0/0
A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow such...
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Movies on Sundays
1927
The King of Kings
6.4/49
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywoo...
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The King of Kings
1941
Playmates
5.2/5
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Ka...
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Playmates
1937
Woman in Distress
6/1
Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper...
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Woman in Distress
1936
The Captain's Kid
6/2
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
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The Captain's Kid
1940
Granny Get Your Gun
3.5/2
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
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Granny Get Your Gun
1936
Rainbow on the River
9/1
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
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Rainbow on the River
1941
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
0/0
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
1939
The Kid from Kokomo
6/1
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career sea...
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The Kid from Kokomo
1915
How Molly Malone Made Good
5/1
Molly, an Irish girl just hired by a New York newspaper, is assigned as a test a chain interview of celebrities that must be accomplished within a set...
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How Molly Malone Made Good
1934
The Hollywood Gad-About
4/1
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
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The Hollywood Gad-About
1940
Breakdowns of 1940
4/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
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Breakdowns of 1940
1939
Breakdowns of 1939
0/0
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
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Breakdowns of 1939
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5/3
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1926
Pals in Paradise
6/1
Bill Harvey discovers a lost mine, rich with gold. Geraldine "Jerry" Howard has the claim to it left her by her father. Bill tells her that the death...
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Pals in Paradise
1920
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.8/140
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1935
3 Kids and a Queen
6/1
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order...
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3 Kids and a Queen
1931
The She-Wolf
0/0
An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.
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The She-Wolf
1927
A Harp in Hock
0/0
A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, a...
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