Mary Lawson

Acting

Mary Lawson

Born 1910-08-30 · Darlington, Durham, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Elizabeth Lawson (30 August 1910 – 6 May 1941) was a stage and film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to her performances on stage and screen, Lawson was known for her romantic affairs, including with tennis player Fred Perry and her future husband, the married son of the Dame of Sark. Lawson and her husband died in the Second World War during a German bombing raid on Liverpool.

Acting credits

House Broken poster
8.0

Two women plot to get rid of an unwelcome house guest.

House Broken

1936

No artwork available
10.0

'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)

Colonel Blood

1934

Cotton Queen poster
6.3

The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

Cotton Queen

1937

Scrooge poster
6.1

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.

Scrooge

1935

Oh, Boy! poster
9.0

A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...

Oh, Boy!

1938

No artwork available
9.0

A British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce

Can You Hear Me, Mother?

1935

Things Are Looking Up poster
6.5

A scatterbrained circus lady must cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

Things Are Looking Up

1935

No artwork available
9.0

British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead.

Falling in Love

1934

A Fire Has Been Arranged poster
6.4

A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.

A Fire Has Been Arranged

1935

Radio Pirates poster
8.3

Three unlikely people set up a pirate radio station in this musical comedy.

Radio Pirates

1935

D’Ye Ken John Peel? poster
6.0

Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.

D’Ye Ken John Peel?

1935