Word: flora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FLORA WARREN SEYMOUR...
...time is 1885, the scene a farmhouse in the English marshes where aging, rouged Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom) is enjoying the fruits of hard work in the world's two oldest professions. Her dark, bonneted housekeeper (admirably played by Flora Robson) is saddled with two potty sisters, and tries to billet them on Miss Fiske. When the loonies strew her parlor with seaweed and dead birds, Miss Fiske bids them be off; but being penniless as well as potty, they have nowhere to be off to. In order to give the girls a home, the desperate housekeeper does...
...uplift. They are aimed at people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they may be as bad as Vigil in the Night. Or they may be pedestrian and pretentious like...
Silent cinema's first famous comedienne, British-born Flora Finch was the first cinemactress to be known by name throughout the U. S. Her death brought to a close the silent film's pre-history as Douglas Fairbanks' death closed a later...
After John Bunny died in 1915, Flora Finch disappeared. Thinner and older, she reappeared in 1922. At M. G. M., where Flora Finch was a stock player until she died, few of the stars knew...