Ethel barrymore movies moss rose
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Victorian old-dark-house thriller features a Cockney Peggy Cummins
It's that smudge of fog called London under the reign of Victoria. When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl (Peggy Cummins) saw a gentleman (Victor Mature) leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a `lady.'
And here Moss Rose, which has taken its time working up a head of steam, branches off onto a new siding. The estate contains not only Mature, his fiancée (Patricia Medina) and his formidable old dowager mother (Ethel Barrymore), but also a greenhouse where out-of-season moss roses bloom.
Apart from a few Eliza-Doolittle faux pas, the classes do not clash. Barrymore, in fact, extends Cummins a matey welcome; even Medina tries to put aside her understandable jealousy. The only apple of discord falls when Cummins strays innocently into Mature's boyhood rooms, which Barrym
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Moss Rose (film)
1947 film by Gregory Ratoff
For the book on which the film was based, see Moss Rose (novel). For the flower, see Portulaca grandiflora. For the stadium in Macclesfield, England, see Moss Rose.
Moss Rose is a 1947 American film noirmystery film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature and Ethel Barrymore.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1934 novel Moss Rose by Marjorie Bowen based on a real-life Victorian murder case.
Plot
[edit]Set in Victorian London, the story concerns a music hall chorus girl, Belle Adair, aka Rose Lynton, who blackmails a gentleman, Michael Drego, after seeing him leave the house where another dancer, Daisy Arrow, was found murdered. Instead of accepting money she demands to be invited to the man's stately home to experience the life of a lady. The woman becomes friends with the man's mother, Lady Margaret Drego, and his fiancée, Audrey Ashton, but her peace is disturbed when Inspector Clinner, played by Vincent Price, arrives to question them further about the murder. Then another murder is committed in similar circumstances.
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[edit]Production
[edit]20th Century Fox announced they had paid their highest ever price for the screen rights to a 1934 novel by Marjorie Bowen for M
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Main Credits
Director: Pope Ratoff. Screenplay: Niven Busch, Jules Furthman, Tom Strict based beckon the uptotheminute The Violation of Laura Saurelle get by without Joseph Shearing. Producer: Sequence Markey. Administrator of Photography: Joseph MacDonald. Music: King Buttolph. Split up Directors: Richard Day, Mark-Lee Kirk. Editor: James B. Clark. Clothes Designer: René Hubert. Cast: Peggy Cummins (Belle/Rose Adair), Victor Adult (Michael Drego), Ethel Histrion (Lady Margaret), Vincent Turned (Insp. Clinner), Margo Woode (Daisy Arrow), George Zucco (Craxton), Patricia Medina (Audrey Ashton), Rhys Williams (Evans). Released: Ordinal Century Slicker, May 30, 1947. 82 minutes.
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Plot Summary
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