Eva Moore

Acting

Eva Moore

Born — Died

1870-02-08 — 1955-04-27

Place of birth

Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

25 titles

Eva Moore (born 1868 or 1870) was an English actress. Her career on stage from 1887 and in film from 1920 spanned six decades. Her daughter Jill Esmond was the first wife of Laurence Olivier.

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 16 titles

The Old Dark House poster
6.7

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

The Old Dark House

1932

The Divorce of Lady X poster
5.9

A London barrister believes the woman who spent the night in his hotel suite is the erring wife of his newest client.

The Divorce of Lady X

1938

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NR

Overbearing but kind-hearted old industrialist Sir Henry Woodstock (known as "Old Iron" to his family) quarrels with his favourite son Harry because Harry wishes to marry the daughter of a business opponent whom he suspects of shady practices. Harry, who has inherited his father's temperament, drives away in a blind fury, runs a man down and kills him. At his trial for manslaughter Sir Henry's testimony as to the quarrel, and the mental disturbance that must have resulted from the conflict in Harry's mind between love of his father and determination to do what he himself thought right, secures Harry's acquittal.

Old Iron

1938

But the Flesh Is Weak poster
6.2

A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.

But the Flesh Is Weak

1932

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10.0

In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.

The Circle

1939

I Was a Spy poster
6.4

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.

I Was a Spy

1933

A Cup of Kindness poster
10.0

A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.

A Cup of Kindness

1934

Brown Sugar poster
10.0

The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.

Brown Sugar

1931

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8.0

British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

Annie, Leave the Room!

1935

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7.0

When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.

Blind Justice

1935

The Song You Gave Me poster
8.0

Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.

The Song You Gave Me

1933

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8.0

Mendoza, who had an affair with the star of the original production of La Vie parisienne in 1900, returns in 1935 with his son and granddaughter. His granddaughter is engaged to a young Frenchman, but Mendoza's strait-laced and puritanical son initially forbids the marriage. The core conflict involves Mendoza and his old Parisian friends conspiring to change the son's mind and convince him to embrace the titular "Parisian life".

Parisian Life

1936

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7.0

A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...

Leave It to Smith

1933

Vintage Wine poster
6.0

The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.

Vintage Wine

1935

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NR

Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

Happy Family

1939

Almost a Divorce poster
10.0

'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)

Almost a Divorce

1931

1920s · 6 titles