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Jessica Tandy
	Date of Birth: Jun 7, 1909 Country: USA Biography: Mini Biography A beloved, twinkly blue-eyed doyenne of stage and screen, actress Jessica Tandy's career spanned nearly six and a half decades. In that course of time she enjoyed an amazing film renaissance at the age of 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and nubile beauty. She was born Jessie Alice Tandy in London in 1909, the daughter of Harry Tandy, a traveling salesman, and Jessie Helen Horspool. Her parents enrolled her as a teenager at the Ben Greet Academy of Ac Total Films at Criticker: 20 - You've Seen 0
Biography last updated by Travisbickle, and picture by Gauntlet Find more information about Jessica Tandy at The Internet Movie Database

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Nobody's Fool (1994)

Summary: Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life. (imdb)

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Used People (1992)

Summary: At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl... (imdb)

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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Summary: A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know. (imdb)

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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Summary: An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years. (imdb)

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*batteries not included (1987)

Summary: Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition. (imdb)

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Cocoon (1985)

Summary: When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour. (imdb)

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The Bostonians (1984)

Summary: 19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement, meets a faith healer's daughter, a Mississippi lawyer also has eyes for the young woman. (imdb)

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The World According to Garp (1982)

Summary: Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women. (imdb)

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Still of the Night (1982)

Summary: A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.

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Best Friends (1982)

Summary: When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends." (imdb)

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Butley (1974)

Summary: An English professor finds his life crumbling around him. (imdb)

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The Birds (1963)

Summary: Birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. (imdb)

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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)

Summary: An immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I. (imdb)

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The Light in the Forest (1958)

Summary: A young white man who spent his whole life raised by a Natvie American tribe is sent to live with his true family and must learn to fit in with the people he was taught to hate. (imdb)

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The Desert Fox (1951)

Summary: The life and career of the respected World War II German general. (imdb)

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September Affair (1950)

Summary: An industrialist (Joseph Cotton) and a pianist (Joan Fontaine) meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path. (imdb)

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A Woman's Vengeance (1948)

Summary: Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. The same night, Emily dies of her chronic heart disease, and Henry promptly marries Doris, to the chagrin of neighbor Janet Spence, who loves him. When a post-mortem shows that Emily's death was precipitated by arsenic, Henry is placed on trial for his life. But is he guilty? (imdb)

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Forever Amber (1947)

Summary: 1660, England. Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from a country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process. (imdb)

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The Valley of Decision (1945)

Summary: Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers. (imdb)

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The Seventh Cross (1944)

Summary: In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland. (imdb)

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