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Muriel Angelus est une Actrice Britannique née le 10 mars 1909 à Londres (Royaume-uni)

Muriel Angelus

Muriel Angelus
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Nom de naissance Muriel E S M Findlay
Nationalité Royaume-uni
Naissance 10 mars 1909 à Londres (Royaume-uni)
Mort 26 juin 2004 (à 95 ans) à Harrisonburg (Etats-Unis)

Muriel Angelus (10 March 1912 – 26 June 2004) was an English stage, musical theatre and film actress.

Born Muriel E S M Findlay in Lambeth, South London, to Scottish parentage, she developed a sweet-voiced soprano at an early age. She made her debut on stage at the age of twelve, appearing in a play she had written herself called The Sister Key. She went on to sing in music halls and to dance in a West End production of The Vagabond King (1927).

She entered films toward the end of the silent era with The Ringer (1928), the first of three movie versions of the Edgar Wallace play. Her second film, Sailor Don't Care (1928) was important only in that she met her first husband, Scots-born actor John Stuart on the set; her role was excised from the film.

Though in her first sound picture, Night Birds (1930), she got to sing a number, most of her films did not use her musical talents. The sweet-natured actress who played both ingenues and 'other woman' roles co-starred with husband Stuart in No Exit (1930), Eve's Fall (1930) and Hindle Wakes (1931), and appeared with British star Monty Banks in some of his film farces, including My Wife's Family (1931) and So You Won't Talk (1935). Muriel received a career lift with the glossy musical London hit Balalaika.

This led to her securing the pivotal role of Adriana in the original Broadway production of The Boys From Syracuse, co-starring Eddie Albert. In turn, she received a contract with Paramount Pictures, but never became a star and is largely remembered solely by the acting buffs and nostalgists. Her last known film role was in The Great McGinty (1940). She then revived her Broadway career and had a great success in the musical comedy, Early to Bed (1943). Her final performance came in 1946, after her marriage to Paul Lavalle. In 1959 she resisted the efforts of Richard Rodgers to secure her for the part of the Mother Abbess in the first Broadway production of The Sound of Music.

Interviewed in 1996, she said it had been a mistake for her to leave England. "I was caught up in the glamour, but once in Hollywood I was nothing more than a tiny craft battling in an ocean beside much weightier ships."

Angelus died at a nursing home in Harrisonburg, Virginia, aged 92, survived by her daughter from her second marriage.

Ses meilleurs films

Gouverneur malgré lui
Gouverneur malgré lui
(1940)
(Actrice)

Le plus souvent avec

Richard Eichberg
Richard Eichberg
(2 films)
Charles Saunders
Charles Saunders
(2 films)
Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(4 films)
Heinrich Gärtner
Heinrich Gärtner
(2 films)
George Melford
George Melford
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Muriel Angelus (15 films)

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Actrice

Gouverneur malgré lui
Gouverneur malgré lui (1940)
, 1h22
Réalisé par Preston Sturges, Alvin Ganzer
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Politique, Politique
Acteurs Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Allyn Joslyn, Jimmy Conlin
Rôle Catharine McGinty
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Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy), ruiné, n'est plus que le tenancier d'un bar dans une république bananière. Il fait le récit de son ascension et de sa déchéance à son entraîneuse et à un client américain, lui-même interdit de séjour aux États-Unis pour avoir détourné de l'argent de son employeur. McGinty prétend qu'il ne s'est perdu, lui, que par « une minute insensée » d'honnêteté!
Hindle Wakes
Hindle Wakes (1931)
, 1h19
Réalisé par Victor Saville
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Thèmes Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Belle Chrystall, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel, Mary Clare, Sybil Thorndike, Edmund Gwenn
Rôle Beatrice Farrar
Note65% 3.2717453.2717453.2717453.2717453.271745
Lancashire mill-girls Jenny Hawthorne (Chrystall) and Mary Hollins (Ruth Peterson) go on holiday to Blackpool during the annual wakes week in their hometown of Hindle. They run into Alan Jeffcote (Stuart), the son of the owner of the mill in which they work, who has also traveled to Blackpool with a group of friends while his fiancée is detained on business in London. Jenny and Alan hit it off immediately, and he persuades her to leave Blackpool to spend the week with him at Llandudno in North Wales. To cover her tracks, Jenny leaves a postcard with Mary, asking her to send it to her parents (Edmund Gwenn and Sybil Thorndike) later in the week. She and Alan leave their friends and set off for Wales.
The Wife's Family
The Wife's Family (1931)
, 1h20
Réalisé par Monty Banks
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Amy Veness, Gene Gerrard, Jimmy Godden, Muriel Angelus, Charles Paton, Tom Helmore
Rôle Peggy Gay

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow understands him to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.