List of the best Estelle Hemsley movies: Take a Giant Step(1959), The Leech Woman(1960), Green Mansions(1959), Baby, the Rain Must Fall(1965), Edge of the City(1957) ... ...
Drama
USA
1959
100 Minutes
Grandma "Gram" Martin
Johnny Nash Estelle Hemsley Ruby Dee Frederick O'Neal Ellen Holly Paulene Myers Beah Richards Royce Wallace Frances Foster Delmar Erickson Dee Pollak
african-american teenager grandmother housekeeper mother classmate prostitute emotional brooding engaging powerful high school family home bar apartment teen angst racial tension culture clash rebellion grandparent/child relationship fitting in
A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
1960
77 Minutes
Old Malla
Coleen Gray Grant Williams Phillip Terry Gloria Talbott John Van Dreelen Estelle Hemsley
A scientist's (Grant Williams) wife (Coleen Gray) must kill men to make the serum that keeps her looking young.
Romance
USA
1959
101 Minutes
Cla-Cla
Audrey Hepburn Anthony Perkins Lee J. Cobb Sessue Hayakawa Henry Silva Nehemiah Persoff Michael Pate Estelle Hemsley
son love interest grandfather native fascinating dreamy intricate venezuela caracas jungle nature war loss romance gold discovery love metamorphosis revenge 1890s
A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.
Drama
1965
100 Minutes
Catherine
Steve McQueen Lee Remick Don Murray Paul Fix Josephine Hutchinson Ruth White Charles Watts Carol Veazie Estelle Hemsley Kimberly Block Zamah Cunningham
singer husband wife daughter foster mother brooding dark texas small town bad behavior crime marital problems family dysfunction disillusionment temptation fall 1960s
A paroled singer (Steve McQueen) returns to his wife (Lee Remick) and daughter in Texas but cannot stay out of trouble.
Drama
USA
1957
85 Minutes
John Cassavetes Sidney Poitier Jack Warden Kathleen Maguire Ruby Dee Robert F. Simon Ruth White William A. Lee Val Avery John Kellogg David Clarke
dockworker boss friend wife manager gritty rousing manhattan docks racism labor union self-respect corruption secret awol underdog rivalry transformation 1950s
Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.