Marie Ault
Birthday: 1870-09-02
Place of Birth: Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marie Ault (2 September 1870 – 9 May 1951) was a British character actress of stage and film. She was a star in many British films of the silent era, but is most remembered for her role as Daisy Bunting's mother in The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Other notable film work includes the role of Rummy Mitchens in the film of Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (1941). On stage from 1891, Ault's theatre work included the original production of Love on the Dole in 1935, as well as the 1941 film version.
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The Speckled Band
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she fe...
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night ...
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I See a Dark Stranger
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her...
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Paddy The Next Best Thing
A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love....
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Love on the Dole
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lanca...
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Victory
'France, 1918. Armistice saves girl and pilot from death, but not Canadian agent.' (British Film Ca...
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The Three Weird Sisters
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a...
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They Knew Mr. Knight
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the be...
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It Happened One Sunday
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor w...
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The Man from Morocco
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Bri...
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The Rat
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her sl...
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The Missing Million
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an a...
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Dawn
A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her....
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Woman to Woman
Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Mou...
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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 Triumph of the Rat
Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as ...
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Jamaica Inn
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the rem...
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Maid Happy
'Switzerland. Schoolgirl poses as socialite to win diplomat.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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Hindle Wakes
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy...
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Yellow Stockings
'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. Sh...
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Money for Speed
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing....
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The Alley Cat
A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer....
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Blithe Spirit
A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife....
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Their Night Out
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of mastermindin...
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The Prude's Fall
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love....
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Third Time Lucky
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a lead...
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Class and No Class
A rich coster's daughter loves a steward who is blamed for killing a blackmailing tramp....
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Major Barbara
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels ...
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Contraband Love
'Cornwall. Detective poses as escaped convict to catch smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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Blanche Fury
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury fami...
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The Demi-Paradise
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the ...
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Madame Pompadour
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard....
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Wanted for Murder
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist th...
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Madness of the Heart
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly rea...
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The Silver Lining
The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a ...
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Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra....
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Cheer the Brave
A newly married man soon finds his new wife to be a tyrant. After discovering her previous husband i...
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Kitty
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comfort...
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Roses of Picardy
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son....
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The Return of the Rat
The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man i...
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Lend Me Your Wife
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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The Starlit Garden
In Italy, a ward wins her affianced guardian by saving him from a rival's knife....
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The Grass Orphan
British silent drama film based on the 1913 novel The Paupers of Portman Square by I.A.R. Wylie....
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The Rolling Road
A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband....
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Mademoiselle from Armentieres
A French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy....
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We Dive at Dawn
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a B...
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Troublesome Wives
Based on the play "Summer Lightning" by Ernest Denny, two housewives become embroiled with a foreign...
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