Elisabeth Risdon

Elisabeth Risdon

April 26, 1887

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elisabeth Risdon (born Daisy Cartwright Risdon; 26 April 1887 – 20 December 1958) was an English film actress. She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1952. A beauty in her youth, she usually played in society parts. In later years in films she switched…

Known For

21 titles
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High Sierra

High Sierra

1941 · 1h 40m · Movie

After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

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2
The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

1939 · 1h 46m · Movie

Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

7.9
3
Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow

1937 · 1h 31m · Movie

An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

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4
Life with Father

Life with Father

1947 · 1h 58m · Movie

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

7.1
5
Tall in the Saddle

Tall in the Saddle

1944 · 1h 27m · Movie

Ranch hand Rocklin arrives in town to start his new job but his employer has been murdered and the locals don't seem too friendly.

6.9
6
Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind

1942 · 2h 3m · Movie

Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.

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7
The Egg and I

The Egg and I

1947 · 1h 48m · Movie

On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.

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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

1935 · 1h 28m · Movie

A young man is haunted by the murder of a neighborhood pawn broker and hounded by the local police inspector who suspects that he is guilty.

6.9
9
Five Came Back

Five Came Back

1939 · 1h 15m · Movie

A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.

7.1
10
The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia

1940 · 1h 56m · Movie

Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.

6.0
11
Weird Woman

Weird Woman

1944 · 1h 3m · Movie

While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being.

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12
Higher and Higher

Higher and Higher

1943 · 1h 30m · Movie

With their employer bankrupt, servants scheme to marry maid Millie to a rich husband. But Frank Sinatra lives across the street...

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13
The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing

1942 · 1h 32m · Movie

In order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor.

6.3
14
The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

1947 · 1h 45m · Movie

In post-Civil War Missouri, friends, relatives and neighbors find it difficult to live harmoniously together knowing that some of them fought on opposing sides during the war.

7.0
15
Mad About Music

Mad About Music

1938 · 1h 40m · Movie

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things...

7.1
16
Saturday's Children

Saturday's Children

1940 · 1h 42m · Movie

After meeting each other as fellow employees at J.B. Martin Co., forthright twenty-two year old Bobby Halevy and twenty-five year old Rims Rosson, who has his head in the clouds in coming up with one useless invention after anothe...

6.4
17
The Unseen

The Unseen

1945 · 1h 20m · Movie

A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.

5.9
18
Nice Girl?

Nice Girl?

1941 · 1h 31m · Movie

A young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father's business partners.

6.6
19
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

1941 · 1h 9m · Movie

It is the Lindsay's wedding anniversary and they are fighting. To help them settle down with a house and children, Uncle Matt writes Lord Epping for his help in getting the Lindsay's a war orphan. Unfortunately, he does not state ...

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20
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

1942 · 1h 4m · Movie

Dizzy Carmelita and Uncle Matt inadvertently become involved with thieves smuggling jewels inside a ceramic elephant.

6.1
21
Disputed Passage

Disputed Passage

1939 · 1h 27m · Movie

A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.

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