Martita Hunt
Birthday: 1900-01-30
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 1900 – 13 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations.
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Bonjour Tristesse
A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, b...
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever ...
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Melba
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States....
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Man of the Moment
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself....
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The Brides of Dracula
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his m...
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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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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's ...
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Great Expectations
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefa...
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The Man in Grey
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage ac...
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she s...
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Becket
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding w...
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Anastasia
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a de...
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So Evil My Love
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent ...
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The Spies
A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient...
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Mr. Topaze
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fa...
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Good Morning, Boys!
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s s...
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Song Without End
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to aban...
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Me and the Colonel
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitche...
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The Fan
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The ...
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First a Girl
An aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by he...
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Bottoms Up!
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise th...
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The Lady from Lisbon
When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-lovin...
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I Was a Spy
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding milit...
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Quiet Wedding
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day....
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When Knights Were Bold
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twitteri...
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My Sister and I
A family is in need of a new house help so they employ a mysterious young woman. They soon realise a...
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It Started in Paradise
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion worl...
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have...
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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot....
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Service for Ladies
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Roberts...
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Freedom Radio
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when ...
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The Mill on the Floss
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over wat...
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The Beloved Vagabond
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!...
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The Best House in London
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitutio...
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...
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Tudor Rose
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she ...
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A Girl Must Live
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility....
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Trouble Brewing
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes unde...
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Strange Boarders
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital...
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King of the Damned
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is...
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King's Rhapsody
Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marria...
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Pot Luck
A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case...
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The March Hare
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the hors...
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Dangerous Exile
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring...
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East of Piccadilly
A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the inte...
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They Flew Alone
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in t...
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Farewell Again
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've...
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The Good Old Days
1840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for su...
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Mr. What's-His-Name?
A beautician meets and falls in love with a young man, and they soon marry. What she doesn't know, h...
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Old Mother Riley Joins Up
Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem...
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Three Men in a Boat
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misa...
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Treasure Hunt
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyo...
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The Seventh Survivor
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat ca...
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At the Villa Rose
A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't ...
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The Middle Watch
Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spen...
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Welcome, Mr Washington
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left p...
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Prison Without Bars
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all...
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Meet Me Tonight
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel...
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The Admirable Crichton
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals -...
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Venetian Honeymoon
There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incog...
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Miss Grant Goes to the Door
Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy....
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Folly to Be Wise
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on ...
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Second Best Bed
A newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband....
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Sabotage
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly...
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Sabotage at Sea
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the...
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Friday the Thirteenth
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a Lond...
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Everything Happens to Me
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election....
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The Great Mr Handel
This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal angu...
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A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist ...
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A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed....
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Foreign Affaires
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!...
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