Brenda Forbes
Know for: Acting
Born: 1909-01-14
Place of birth: Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Also know as:
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the...
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)
A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.
Vigil in the Night (1940)
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
The Man Upstairs (1992)
Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.
Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988)
With a glittering cast that includes Katharine Hepburn and Karen Austin in lead roles, Laura Lansing Slept Here is a humorous family movie. Hepburn...
Miss Polly (1941)
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets....
The Perfect Gentleman (1935)
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1956)
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
The Jerky Boys (1995)
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime...
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a...
This Above All (1942)
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with...
Blithe Spirit (1956)
Television adaptation of Noël Coward's famous play about an unhappily married man plagued by the spirit of his dead previous wife.