Acting
Marguerite Allan
Born 1905-08-30 · St. Petersburg, Russia
Acting credits
6.5Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
Doctor's Orders
1934
10.0'Devon. Rich widow helps poor squire by pretending his ancestor hid treasure.' (British Film Catalogue)
Widecombe Fair
1928
7.5A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
Matinee Idol
1933
A musical film directed by Geoffrey Benstead
Stepping Stones
1931
8.0A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..
Prison Breaker
1936
A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
The Big Splash
1935
10.0Low-key British comedy starring Clive Brook as a successful playwright who is sued for breach of promise by a mysterious beauty he claims not to know.
Breach of Promise
1942
6.0Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon's betrothal, Pepita gives her heart to another but when bandits accost her and try to rob her father, they give the dashing Ramon just the chance he needs to prove the gallant lover!
A Romance of Seville
1929
8.3A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
Those Were the Days
1934
5.6World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
Blossom Time
1934
A Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...
Follow the Lady
1933
7.0A girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
Under the Greenwood Tree
1929
8.0With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
Luck of the Navy
1938
9.0A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.
Sleeping Partners
1930
NRA Scot acquires sophistication in order to spurn the socialite who spurned him.
The Plaything
1929