Hessy Doris Lloyd (3 July 1896 – 21 May 1968) was an English-American actress of screen and stage. She is perhaps best known for her roles in The Time Machine (1960) and The Sound of Music (1965). During her career, Lloyd appeared in two Oscar Best Picture winners and four other nominees.
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Doris Lloyd - Actress
1. Profile :-
Born Hessy Doris Lloyd
3 July 1896
Walton, Liverpool, England
Died 21 May 1968 (aged 71)
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Resting place Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Occupation Actress
Years active 1916–1967
2. Introduction :-
Hessy Doris Lloyd (3 July 1896 – 21 May 1968) was an English-American actress of screen and stage. She is perhaps best known for her roles in The Time Machine (1960) and The Sound of Music (1965). During her career, Lloyd appeared in two Oscar Best Picture winners and four other nominees.
3. Early life and career :-
Born in Liverpool, she went to the United States of America to visit a sister already living there. What was supposed to be a visit she made permanent. She spent several years (1916–25) appearing in Broadway theatre plays, notably a number of Ziegfeld Follies editions, and probably spent some time on the road in touring companies. She decided on a film career, making her first film in 1925. With the exception of returning to one Broadway play in 1947, her career was devoted to films and television.
4. Roles :-
Lloyd appeared in over 150 films between 1925 and 1967, including the 1933 low-budget Monogram Pictures version of Oliver Twist, in which she played Nancy. Irving Pichel starred as Fagin and Dickie Moore as Oliver. Her roles ranged from the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in the biopic Disraeli (1929) to the meek housekeeper Mrs. Watchett in The Time Machine (1960).
Her most famous film roles were in the Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller. She voiced one of the roses in Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951), later making small appearances in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music which both starred Julie Andrews.
5. Death :-
Lloyd died on 21 May 1968, aged 71, in Santa Barbara, California. Her interment was in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
6. Partial filmography :-
Love's Influence (1922)
The Lady (1925) as Fannie Chair
The Man from Red Gulch (1925)
The Blackbird (1926) as Limehouse Le Blanc
Brown of Harvard (1926)
Black Paradise (1926) as Lillian Webster
The Midnight Kiss (1926) as Ellen Atkins
Exit Smiling (1926) as Olga
The Broncho Twister (1927) as Teresa Brady
Come to My House (1927) as Renee Parsons
Two Girls Wanted (1927 as Mrs. Timoney
Lonesome Ladies (1927) as Helen Wayne
Rich But Honest (1927) as Mrs. O'Grady
Is Zat So? (1927) as Sue Parker
Auctioneer (1927) as Esther Levi
The Trail of '98 (1928) as Locasto's procurer
The Careless Age (1929) as Mabs
The Drake Case (1929) as Mrs. Drake
*Disraeli (1929) as Mrs. Travers
Old English (1930) as Mrs. Rosamond Lane
Sarah and Son (1930) as Mrs. Ashmore, Vanning's sister
Charley's Aunt (1930) as Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez
Reno (1930) as Lola Fealey
Way for a Sailor (1930) as Flossy
The Bachelor Father (1931) as Mrs. Julia Webb
Waterloo Bridge (1931) as Kitty
Once a Lady (1931) as Lady Ellen Somerville
Transgression (1931) as Paula Vrain
Bought! (1931) as Mrs. Barry
Devotion (1931) as Pansy
Back Street (1932) as Corinne Saxel - Walter's wife
Oliver Twist (1933) as Nancy Sikes
Secrets (1933) as Susan Channing
Looking Forward (1933) as Mrs. Lil Benton
A Study in Scarlet (1933) as Mrs. Murphy
Peg o' My Heart (1933) as Mrs. Grace Brent
Voltaire (1933) as Mme. Clarion - Actress
Dangerous Corner (1934) as Maude Mockridge
British Agent (1934) as Lady Carrister
Sisters Under the Skin (1934) as Elinor Yates
Glamour (1934) as Nana
Long Lost Father (1934) as Blonde widow
One Exciting Adventure (1934) as Customer
She Was a Lady (1934) as Alice Vane
Tarzan and His Mate (1934) as Mrs. Cutten (deleted scenes)
Kiss and Make-Up (1934) as Mme. Durand
Clive of India (1934) as Mrs. Nixon
Strange Wives (1934) as Mrs. Sleeper
The Woman in Red (1935) as Mrs. Casserly
A Shot in the Dark (1935) as Lucille Coates
Two for Tonight (1935) as Lady Ralston
Motive for Revenge (1935) as Mrs. Fleming
Peter Ibbetson (1935) as Mrs. Dorian
Becky Sharp (1935) as Duchess of Richmond
Straight from the Heart (1935) as Miss Carter
A Feather in Her Hat (1935) as Liz Vining
Kind Lady (1935) as Lucy Weston
The Perfect Gentleman (1935) as Kate
The Imperfect Lady (1935)
A Woman Rebels (1936)
Too Many Parents (1936) as Mrs. Downing
Don't Get Personal (1936) as Mrs. Charles van Ronesoleer
Brilliant Marriage (1936) as Mrs. Madeleine Allison
Mary of Scotland (1936) Fisherman's wife
The Plough and the Stars (1936) as Woman at barricades
Murder Is News (1937) as Pauline Drake
Alcatraz Island (1937) as Miss Marquand
Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937) as Nurse
Tovarich (1937) as Madame Chauffourier-Dubleff
Port of Seven Seas (1938)
The Black Doll (1938) as Laura Leland
The Under-Pup (1939) as Mrs. Binns
First Love (1939) as Mrs. Parker
I'm from Missouri (1939) as Mrs. Arthur, Duchess of Cricklewood
Barricade (1939) as Mrs. Ward
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Vigil in the Night (1940) as Mrs. Martha Bowley
The Great Plane Robbery (1940) as Mrs. Jamison
'Til We Meet Again (1940) as Louise
The Boys from Syracuse (1940) as Woman
The Letter (1940) as Mrs. Cooper
Shining Victory (1941) as Mrs. Foster
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) as Mrs. Marley (uncredited)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) as Martha
Journey for Margaret (1942) as Mrs. Barrie
Night Monster (1942) as Sarah Judd
The Constant Nymph (1943) as Miss Hamilton
No Place for a Lady (1943) as Evelyn Harris
Forever and a Day (1943) as Trimble Maid
The Lodger (1944) as Jennie
Phantom Lady (1944) as Kettisha
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) as Maud
Molly and Me (1945) as Mrs. Graham
Scotland Yard Investigator (1945) as Emma Todworthy
Allotment Wives (1945) as Alice Van Brook
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) as Mrs. Mackie
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) as Miss Wetherby, School Superintendent (uncredited)
Three Strangers (1946) as Mrs. Proctor
Of Human Bondage (1946) as Landlady
To Each His Own (1946) as Miss Pringle
G.I. War Brides (1946) as Beatrice Moraski
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) as Mrs. Leticia Follinebee;
Tyrant of the Sea (1950) as Elizabeth Blake
Kind Lady (1951) as Rose
Alice in Wonderland (1951) as Rose (voice)
Young Bess (1953) as Mother Jack
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
The Swan (1956) as Countess Sibenstoyn
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960)
The Time Machine (1960) as Mrs. Watchet
Midnight Lace (1960) as Nora Stanley, the Housekeeper
The Notorious Landlady as Lady Fallott
Mary Poppins (1964) as Depositor (uncredited)
The Sound of Music (1965) as Baroness Elberfeld
Rosie! (1967) as Sedalia
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Disraeli (1929 film)
1. Profile :-
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Screenplay by Julien Josephson
Based on Disraeli (play)
by Louis N. Parker
Starring George Arliss
Doris Lloyd
David Torrence
Joan Bennett
Cinematography Lee Garmes
Edited by Owen Marks (uncredited)
Production
company
Warner Bros.
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
November 1, 1929
Running time
90 minutes (1929 release)
87 minutes (1934 re-release)
Country United States
Language English
Budget $318,000
Box office $1,498,000
2. Introduction :-
Disraeli is a 1929 American historical film directed by Alfred E. Green, released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., and adapted by Julien Josephson (screenplay) and De Leon Anthony (titles) from the 1911 play Disraeli by Louis N. Parker.
The lobby card states, "Mr. George Arliss in his greatest picture Disraeli". His performance as British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The story revolves around the British plan to buy the Suez Canal and the efforts of two spies to stop it.
As with the original 1911 Broadway play and its 1917 revival, and the 1921 silent film, Arliss' wife Florence appeared opposite him in the role of Disraeli's wife, Mary Anne (Lady Beaconsfield).
3. Plot :-
In 1874, Disraeli's ambitious foreign policy, aimed at creating a British empire, is voted down by the House of Commons after a speech by his great rival, William Gladstone. Later, Disraeli receives the welcome news that the spendthrift Khedive of Egypt is in dire need of money and is willing to sell the controlling shares in the Suez Canal. The purchase of the canal would secure control of India, but Michael Probert, head of the Bank of England, makes it clear to Disraeli that he is vehemently opposed to any such plan. Disraeli then summons Hugh Myers, a leading Jewish banker.
Meanwhile, Lord Charles Deeford proposes to Lady Clarissa Pevensey. Although she is in love with him, she turns him down. He is content to enjoy his wealth and high social standing, and lacks the ambition she wants in a husband; further, she is a great admirer of the Prime Minister and Charles has no strong opinion about him. Disraeli, seeing promise in the young man and wanting Clarissa to be happy, convinces Charles to come work for him, and tells him about the canal purchase.
But he does not tell him about the spies. Russia, eager to seize India for itself, has assigned two spies to watch Disraeli: Mrs. Travers, who has entree to the highest social circles, and Mr. Foljambe. Disraeli was not fooled; he has hired Foljambe as his personal government secretary, the better to deceive him. When Foljambe asks Charles if Myers is there to provide financial backing for the purchase of the canal, Charles says nothing, but his manner makes it clear that Foljambe has guessed correctly. Mrs. Travers orders Foljambe to leave the country and warn their masters.
Disraeli soon discovers what has happened. When he decides to send an agent to the khedive immediately, Clarissa suggests he send Charles. Charles persuades the khedive to accept Myers' cheque in exchange for the shares, also proving his own worth to Clarissa.
Disraeli is elated when he receives the news. However, Myers comes and informs him that his banking house has been driven into bankruptcy by sabotage; the cheque is worthless. Disraeli tells him to keep his situation secret for the moment. When the prying Mrs. Travers arrives, Disraeli allows her to learn of the purchase, and she exultantly admits to her key part in sabotaging Myers.
Thinking quickly, Disraeli summons Probert. Though the banker initially refuses to help, Disraeli forces him to sign a paper giving unlimited credit to Myers by threatening to have Parliament revoke the bank's charter. (After Probert leaves, Disraeli confesses to his wife and Clarissa that he was bluffing.) Myers' solvency is restored, the deal is completed, and as a result of Disraeli's success, Queen Victoria can add Empress of India to her other titles.
4. Cast :-
George Arliss as Disraeli
Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Travers
David Torrence as Lord Probert
Joan Bennett as Clarissa
Florence Arliss as Lady Beaconsfield
Anthony Bushell as Charles
Michael Visocoff, S.T. as Count Borsinov
5. Production :-
The Green Goddess was filmed in 1929 and completed before Disraeli, but was held out of release until 1930 at the request of Arliss because he felt this film was a better vehicle for his talkie debut. Silent film versions of Parker's play, both also titled "Disraeli", had previously been produced: A 1916 version produced by British company NB Films; and the 1921 version produced by Arliss' production company, Distinctive Productions, and released by United Artists.
6. Box Office :-
According to Warner Bros records the film earned $924,000 domestically and $574,000 foreign.
7. Awards and honors :-
The film received three Academy Award nominations:
George Arliss win for Best Actor made him the first British actor to win, the first actor to win for a remake of a previously produced movie, and the first to win for reprising a movie role.
The film was nominated for Outstanding Production, but lost to All Quiet on the Western Front.
Screenwriter Julien Josephson was nominated for Best Writing Achievement in a year when only one award was given for screenwriting. (In most years, he would have been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.) He lost to Frances Marion for The Big House.
The film was also awarded the Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor in 1929.
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated.
8. Preservation status :-
The film survives in its 1934 re-release form, when it was converted from its original sound-on-disc technology to sound-on-film. To provide space for the soundtrack, the image was noticeably cropped on the left side, except for the opening credit sequence and end title, which were replaced and are centered. Some pre-Code footage, about three minutes, was also deleted and is believed to be lost.
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