Norma Varden
Norma Varden Shackleton (20 January 1898 – 19 January 1989), known professionally as Norma Varden, was an English-American actress with a long film career.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5735 |
| Birthday | 1898-01-20 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Norma Varden Shackleton, |
1953
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
7.337/1052
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thin...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1951
Strangers on a Train
7.666/1867
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing...
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Strangers on a Train
1943
The Good Fellows
8/1
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forge...
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The Good Fellows
1942
Random Harvest
7.309/115
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
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Random Harvest
1941
Road to Zanzibar
6.4/35
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
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Road to Zanzibar
1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.66/438
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1957
Witness for the Prosecution
8.204/1673
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he...
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Witness for the Prosecution
1965
The Sound of Music
7.73/3603
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven...
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The Sound of Music
1963
13 Frightened Girls
5.673/26
While attending a Swiss school for diplomats' daughters, the teenage daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engag...
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13 Frightened Girls
1961
Five Minutes to Live
5.519/27
A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works.
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Five Minutes to Live
1967
Doctor Dolittle
6.239/197
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
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Doctor Dolittle
1947
Where There's Life
6.429/7
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael...
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Where There's Life
1942
The Major and the Minor
7.079/146
Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself i...
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The Major and the Minor
1951
Thunder on the Hill
6.379/33
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becomin...
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Thunder on the Hill
1944
Mademoiselle Fifi
6.438/8
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. Bu...
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Mademoiselle Fifi
1936
Where There's a Will
7.125/8
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with hi...
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Where There's a Will
1952
Les Miserables
5.528/18
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Miserables
1946
The Green Years
6.438/16
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stan...
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The Green Years
1953
Loose in London
5.9/5
The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
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Loose in London
1942
Flying with Music
4.429/7
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with severa...
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Flying with Music
1936
Windbag the Sailor
7.458/12
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catc...
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Windbag the Sailor
1935
Boys Will Be Boys
6.412/17
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who ha...
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Boys Will Be Boys
1955
Jupiter's Darling
4.857/7
Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius' fiancée, A...
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Jupiter's Darling
1940
The Earl of Chicago
6.286/7
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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The Earl of Chicago
1964
Kisses for My President
7.625/8
A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
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Kisses for My President
1942
We Were Dancing
4.333/6
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American s...
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We Were Dancing
1943
What a Woman
6.3/5
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
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What a Woman
1949
Adventure in Baltimore
5.25/8
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do...
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Adventure in Baltimore
1946
The Searching Wind
8/1
Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in...
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The Searching Wind
1954
Three Coins in the Fountain
5.905/58
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a sec...
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Three Coins in the Fountain
1942
The Glass Key
6.628/129
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Glass Key
1943
Casablanca
8.142/6009
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Casablanca
1934
Dirty Work
7/1
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
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Dirty Work
1958
The Buccaneer
6.5/51
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will...
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The Buccaneer
1947
Ivy
6.63/27
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger...
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Ivy
1933
Turkey Time
10/1
A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished co...
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Turkey Time
1937
Make-Up
10/1
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an i...
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Make-Up
1943
Dixie
5/2
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...
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Dixie
1945
Hold That Blonde!
6.182/11
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another...
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Hold That Blonde!
1965
A Very Special Favor
5.778/9
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
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A Very Special Favor
1939
Shipyard Sally
5.667/3
A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them...
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Shipyard Sally
1945
Those Endearing Young Charms
9/1
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.
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Those Endearing Young Charms
1935
Get Off My Foot
7/0
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
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Get Off My Foot
1933
Crime on the Hill
6.75/2
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man'...
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Crime on the Hill
1945
National Velvet
7.25/120
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velv...
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National Velvet
1941
Scotland Yard
7/1
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planni...
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Scotland Yard
1945
Girls of the Big House
7.5/2
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the b...
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Girls of the Big House
1953
Young Bess
5.841/22
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je...
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Young Bess
1960
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
7/3
Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disney...
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Moochie of Pop Warner Football
1947
Forever Amber
6.016/32
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavalie...
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Forever Amber
1935
Foreign Affaires
9/1
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
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Foreign Affaires
1943
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
6.867/94
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master dete...
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1940
Waterloo Bridge
7.497/177
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young...
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Waterloo Bridge
1933
Happy
6/2
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
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Happy
1945
The Cheaters
6.192/13
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicate...
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The Cheaters
1935
The Student's Romance
6.25/4
Based on the operetta I Lost My Heart in Heidelburg, which in turn owed a lot to that old chestnut The Student Prince. In 1825, impoverished composer...
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The Student's Romance
1945
Bring on the Girls
6.25/6
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hote...
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Bring on the Girls
1950
Fancy Pants
5.778/18
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The compli...
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Fancy Pants
1958
In the Money
6.667/3
The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
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In the Money
1934
The Iron Duke
8/1
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The Iron Duke
1947
The Trouble with Women
9.5/2
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wif...
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The Trouble with Women
1932
A Night Like This
7/1
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is...
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A Night Like This
1936
East Meets West
7/1
The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with...
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East Meets West
1969
Istanbul Express
5.375/8
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbu...
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Istanbul Express
1941
Mr. District Attorney
5.75/8
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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Mr. District Attorney
1942
Johnny Doughboy
5.625/8
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group o...
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Johnny Doughboy
1943
Slightly Dangerous
6/8
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Slightly Dangerous
1948
The Amazing Mr. X
6.198/48
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark ma...
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The Amazing Mr. X
1935
Stormy Weather
7/2
Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continua...
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Stormy Weather
1948
Let's Live a Little
7/4
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fianc...
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Let's Live a Little
1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
6.696/23
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 whir...
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The White Cliffs of Dover
1935
Mimi
5.8/5
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
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Mimi
1949
The Secret Garden
7.074/34
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she...
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The Secret Garden
1936
Music Hath Charms
9/1
This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.
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Music Hath Charms
1931
The Chance of a Night Time
9/1
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken fo...
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The Chance of a Night Time
1963
Island of Love
5.75/6
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripp...
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Island of Love
1962
Rome Adventure
5.75/16
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job...
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Rome Adventure
1937
Fire Over England
6.188/40
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the ti...
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Fire Over England
1922
The Glorious Adventure
6.5/2
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
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The Glorious Adventure
1934
Evergreen
6.545/11
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappea...
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Evergreen
1959
The Miracle
6.667/9
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
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The Miracle
1936
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
6.875/28
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
1937
Wanted!
9/1
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves ar...
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Wanted!
1937
Rhythm Racketeer
6.5/2
A Chicago gangster steals jewels and frames his band leader double.
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Rhythm Racketeer
1947
Millie's Daughter
4/3
An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
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Millie's Daughter
1969
Doc
8/1
An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can't re...
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Doc
1941
Glamour Boy
6.5/2
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living...
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Glamour Boy
1948
Hollow Triumph
6.618/55
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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Hollow Triumph
1938
Everything Happens to Me
9/1
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.
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