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Gwenllian Gill

Gwenllian Gill

Acting

Biography

Gwenllian Gill was a British actress. In 1934, she signed a contract with Paramount Studios, and had small roles in several Hollywood movies. She then returned to England, and starred in a number of low-budget 'Quota Quickies'. There, she met director Donovan Pedelty, who she later married. During the Second World War, she worked as a British Information Officer in California and Washington. After the War, she remained in America with Pedelty and acted for film and television. She died in 2004 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Known For

Midnight Lace
6.6

Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.

Midnight Lace

1960
The Best of Everything
6.3

An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.

The Best of Everything

1959
Murder at the Vanities
5.5

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.

Murder at the Vanities

1934
Behold My Wife!
8.0

After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.

Behold My Wife!

1934
Menace
6.4

A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.

Menace

1934
Shock
7.3

Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.

Shock

1934
Shoot the Works
6.7

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to himself.

Shoot the Works

1934
Here Is My Heart
7.3

A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.

Here Is My Heart

1934
Come On, Marines!
5.6

"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. It comes as a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18-25 year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.

Come On, Marines!

1934
The Notorious Sophie Lang
6.7

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.

The Notorious Sophie Lang

1934
You Belong to Me
7.0

When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.

You Belong to Me

1934
Flight Nurse
6.3

In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.

Flight Nurse

1953
Search for Beauty
5.5

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

Search for Beauty

1934
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8.0

An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to adulterate branded products.

Irish and Proud of It

1936
Flame in the Heather
9.0

An English spy goes to Jacobite Scotland and falls for the daughter of the family he is staying with. She laments his nationality yet he eventually rescues her from death and they ride off together as lovers. The first Scottish sound film.

Flame in the Heather

1936