Cast: Brenda Forbes

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Brenda Forbes. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The White Cliffs of Dover

1944 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Irene Dunne · Alan Marshal · Roddy McDowall · Frank Morgan

Synopsis It tells the story of an American girl who travels abroad to England and falls in love with an English aristocrat. The girl marries the Englishman but their honeymoon is cut short on its first day as World War I...

6.4

113 votes

6.4

113 votes

Vigil in the Night

1940 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Carole Lombard · Brian Aherne · Anne Shirley · Julien Mitchell

Synopsis Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr....

6.3

113 votes

6.3

113 votes

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Harold Gould · Bibi Besch · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis A well-to-do widow (Katherine Hepburn) shocks her snobbish WASP family when she announces that she has fallen in love with her Jewish doctor (Harold Gould). His family is equally devastated by the news leading both individuals to have to fight...

5.0

25 votes

5.0

25 votes

Anastasia (TV)

1967 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Robert Burr · Tamara Daykarhanova · Lynn Fontanne · Brenda Forbes

Synopsis A group of swindlers convinces a girl suffering from amnesia that she's the daughter and sole surviving child of Czar Nicholas II in order to collect the vast amount of money she would inherit.

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Miss Polly

1941 · Movie · 45 min. · United States

Direction Fred Guiol

Cast ZaSu Pitts · Slim Summerville · Kathleen Howard · Brenda Forbes

Synopsis A town's rigid forced morality rules stifle young people so severely that the town has gone two years without a marriage. Miss Polly conspires to help a couple overcome the meddling do-gooders.

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The Perfect Gentleman

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Frank Morgan · Cicely Courtneidge · Heather Angel · Herbert Mundin

Synopsis A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.

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Direction George Schaefer

Cast Alfred Lunt · Lynn Fontanne · William Griffis · Ion Berger

Synopsis The life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, from his appointment to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt, through the administrations of Taft, Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dramatizes the love between Holmes and his wife Fanny, and their relationships with...

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The Man Upstairs (TV)

1992 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Ryan O'Neal · Henry Beckman · Helena Carroll

Synopsis Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.

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Laura Lansing Slept Here (TV)

1988 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Karen Austin · Brenda Forbes · Joel Higgins

Synopsis Each of Katharine Hepburn's 1980s TV movies was heralded as the lady's last-ever appearance.

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