Beatrice Straight

Beatrice Straight
Date of Birth: 02 Aug 1914
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 14 (Actor)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (14)
Network
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. (IMDB.com)
+3
Poltergeist
A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts. (imdb)
+2
Endless Love
A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by circumstance and accident. (imdb)
The Nun\
Gabrielle Van Der Mal gave up everything to become a nun. But her faith and her vows are forever being tested: first in the missionary Congo hospital where she assists the brilliant and handsome Dr. Fortunati and then at the mother house in France when World War II has broken out and the nuns are forbidden by the order to take sides. (imdb)
+3
Bloodline
Audrey Hepburn stars in this mystery/thriller as the heir of a pharmacutical company, but after her inheritence she is the target of an unknown assassin which leads her on an international chase and not knowing whom to trust anymore, not even her own family, or her new lover. (imdb)
The Formula
A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it. (imdb)
+2
Phone Call from a Stranger
Plane crash survivor visits the families of victims he befriended on his flight.
+2
Patterns
Van Heflin stars in a story about big business and the ruthlessness at the top of the ladder. (imdb)
+14
Two of a Kind
Four angels try to save the people of earth from another of God's vengeful floods by choosing a typical human to show that there are still good people on earth. The typical man is Jack Melon (played by John Travolta), who holds up a bank, but the teller Debbie Wylder (played by Olivia Newton-John) secretly takes the money herself. Jack finds Debbie to get the money back, but things go awry, and become more complicated when the devil gets involved as well.
Chiller
Chiller (1985) - TV Movie
A man who has been dead and cryogenically preserved for ten years is miraculously revived, but with chillingly unexpected results. (imdb)
+7
Robert Kennedy & His Times
A personal portrait of one of the most controversial men of this century and the turbulent times in which he lived. An entire era, including the fight for civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the American entry into Vietnam, and the eventual protest against it, was shaped by Bobby Kennedy. (imdb)
The Borrowers
An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home. (imdb)
+9
The Young Lovers
The young art student Eddie wants to live a life without troubles or responsibilities. He meets Pam and they fall in love. But happy-go-lucky Eddie declares that he won't marry her. Soon Pam is pregnant, and Eddie must face up to the problem... (imdb)
The Promise
A corporate heir's mother pays for his disfigured girlfriend's plastic surgery, on one condition.