Eileen Herlie

Acting

Eileen Herlie

Born — Died

1918-03-08 — 2008-10-08

Place of birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

13 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 6 titles

For Better, for Worse poster
5.8

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?

For Better, for Worse

1954

She Didn't Say No! poster
6.6

Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.

She Didn't Say No!

1958

Isn't Life Wonderful! poster
5.4

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.

Isn't Life Wonderful!

1953

The Matchmaker poster
NR

Can the ever-resilient Mrs. Levi melt the heart of the eternally sour-tempered Mr. Vandergelder?

The Matchmaker

1954

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan poster
5.0

The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

1953

The Angel with the Trumpet poster
7.0

Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.

The Angel with the Trumpet

1950