May Robson
Birthday: 1858-04-17
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia May Robson (19 April 1858 - 20 October 1942) was an actress and playwright. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th century, Robson is best known today for the dozens of 1930s motion pictures she appeared in when she was well into her seventies, usually playing cross old ladies with hearts of gold.
Movies
Bringing Up Baby
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strang...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t...
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A Star Is Born
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at...
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Alice in Wonderland
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla...
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They Made Me a Criminal
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk....
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Lady for a Day
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanis...
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Dancing Lady
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the r...
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Joan of Paris
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact t...
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Wife vs. Secretary
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his att...
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Four Daughters
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily to...
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Lady by Choice
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother....
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Reckless
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire....
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Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...
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Million Dollar Baby
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression....
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Red-Headed Woman
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair...
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Broadway to Hollywood
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville...
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If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...
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A Night Out
A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out....
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The Solitaire Man
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered ...
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The Texans
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpe...
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Little Orphan Annie
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted da...
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Four Wives
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she fa...
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Irene
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mr...
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The Perfect Specimen
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wic...
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Daughters Courageous
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane,...
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Strange Interlude
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a h...
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Four Mothers
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together....
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Letty Lynton
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South Ame...
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That's Right – You're Wrong
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Ky...
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The White Sister
An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war....
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Strangers All
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children....
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt....
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Beauty for Sale
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen...
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Straight Is the Way
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfr...
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Reunion in Vienna
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now w...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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You Can't Buy Everything
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her....
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Grand Old Girl
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den....
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One Man's Journey
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have...
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Age of Indiscretion
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert...
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year j...
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in....
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Nurse Edith Cavell
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son o...
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Mills of the Gods
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her ir...
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Rubber Tires
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car a...
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The Angel of Broadway
Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her custo...
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Dinner at Eight
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver...
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Chicago
Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he lea...
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Movies on Sundays
A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Su...
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The King of Kings
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, w...
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Playmates
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program...
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Woman in Distress
Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the po...
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The Captain's Kid
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town d...
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Granny Get Your Gun
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges....
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Rainbow on the River
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kys...
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The Kid from Kokomo
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston...
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How Molly Malone Made Good
Molly, an Irish girl just hired by a New York newspaper, is assigned as a test a chain interview of ...
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The Hollywood Gad-About
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master...
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Breakdowns of 1939
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939....
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Breakdowns of 1940
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940....
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirl...
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Pals in Paradise
Bill Harvey discovers a lost mine, rich with gold. Geraldine "Jerry" Howard has the claim to it left...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend....
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3 Kids and a Queen
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq...
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The She-Wolf
An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer....
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A Harp in Hock
A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed ...
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