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Tag Archives: Googie Withers
Night and the City (1950) Jules Dassin, Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. Read More »
The Silver Fleet (1943) Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley, Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight
Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. Read More »
On Approval (1944) Clive Brook, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers
Victorian London. George, the 10th Duke of Bristol, and his equally upper class friend Richard Halton are both broke. Read More »
They Came to a City (1944) Basil Dearden, John Clements, Googie Withers, Raymond Huntley
Nine personalities from various walks of life are hauled into some post-war Utopia, but just how many are prepared to live inside? Read More »
Trouble Brewing (1939) Anthony Kimmins, George Formby, Googie Withers, Gus McNaughton
George has won a lot of money at the races but he’s paid with counterfeit money. Read More »
Derby Day (1952) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. Read More »
White Corridors (1951) Pat Jackson, Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle
The scene is Yeoman’s Hospital, set in the English Midlands, soon after the NHS was founded. Read More »
Miranda (1948) Ken Annakin, Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
A young married physician out on a fishing holiday ends up being saved by a mermaid, who intends to keep him her prisoner. Read More »
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) Robert Hamer, Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Crime, Drama
Slice of life drama following the lives of various people in London’s East End on a wet Sunday. Read More »
The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) Charles Frend, Robert Hamer, Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Drama
The story of a woman who loved three men for their different ways and discovered after many a heartache, that her first love was also her true love. Edward the Peacemaker was on the throne of England when Joanna Godden’s father died and bequeathed a large farm on the Romney Marsh of Kent. Beautiful, impetuous, self-willed, Joanna determined to defy convention and – a mere woman – run the farm herself. Her decision outraged the whole shire – not least her farmer neighbour Arthur Alce.
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