The best Nancy Coleman’s movies

Nancy Coleman

Nancy Coleman

31/12/1912- 18/01/2000
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Kings Row

Kings Row
7.5/10
Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Parris and Drake, both of whom have lost their parents, are best friends; Parris dreams of becoming a doctor, studying under the father of his sweetheart Cassie, while Drake plans on becoming a local businessman when he receives his full inheritance - juggling girlfriends in the meantime. As they become adults, the revelations of local secrets threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

Desperate Journey

Desperate Journey
6.8/10
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.

Devotion

Devotion
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/04/1946
  • Character: Anne Brontë
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Reverend Arthur Nichols. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 09/04/1943
  • Character: Katja
The film pivots around the local doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore the occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son, has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

Breakdowns of 1942

Breakdowns of 1942
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Self
This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers.

The Gay Sisters

The Gay Sisters
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/08/1942
  • Character: Susie Gaylord
The eldest (Barbara Stanwyck) of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer (George Brent) she once married.

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/11/1947
  • Character: Hazel Niles
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.

Dangerously They Live

Dangerously They Live
6.4/10
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

Violence

Violence
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/05/1947
  • Character: Ann Dwire, alias Ann Mason
Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.

In Our Time

In Our Time
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/02/1944
  • Character: Janina Orwid
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.

Her Sister's Secret

Her Sister's Secret
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/09/1946
  • Character: Antoinette 'Toni' DuBois
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry him but she decides to wait until his next leave. He is sent overseas and she does not receive his letter and feels abandoned, but she does find out she is pregnant. She gives the child to her married sister and does not see her child again for three years. She returns to her sister's home to reclaim the child, and the soldier, who has been searching for her, also turns up. The sister is not interested in giving up the child. Written by Les Adams

That Man from Tangier

That Man from Tangier
5.1/10
  • Release: 08/05/1953
  • Character: Mary Ellen
Mary Ellen travels abroad and ends up marrying a Count while she is intoxicated. The Count disappears and with the aid of her father, George, she tracks down his address in the Casbah, only to discover he was an impostor. The real count is Henri, a nondescript man with a shrewd business sense. Mary Ellen pays him to carry on the masquerade of being her husband so she can get a divorce.

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