List of the best Irene Vanbrugh movies: Knight Without Armor(1937), Escape Me Never(1935), Wings of the Morning(1937), Catherine the Great(1934), I Live in Grosvenor Square(1945) ... ...
Drama
UK
1937
107 Minutes
Duchess of Zorin
Marlene Dietrich Robert Donat Irene Vanbrugh Herbert Lomas Austin Trevor Basil Gill David Tree John Clements
double agent aristocrat bolshevik spy police officer soldier melodramatic engaging russia train countryside england hideout revolution communism espionage escape pursuit 1910s
After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.
Drama
UK
1935
92 Minutes
Lady Helen McClean
Elisabeth Bergner Hugh Sinclair Griffith Jones Penelope Dudley Ward Irene Vanbrugh Lyn Harding Leon Quartermaine Rosalinde Fuller
A married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.
Romance
UK
1937
89 Minutes
Old Marie
Henry Fonda Glenn Tryon Annabella Leslie Banks Stewart Rome Irene Vanbrugh Harry Tate Helen Haye Edward Underdown
nobleman gypsy horse trainer grandmother granddaughter love interest confident emotional intricate ireland horse track spain horse racing gypsy culture forbidden love disguise relocation accident forbidden love quest
First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.
Drama, History
1934
94 Minutes
Princess Anhalt-Zerbst
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Elisabeth Bergner Flora Robson Gerald du Maurier Irene Vanbrugh Griffith Jones Joan Gardner Dorothy Hale Gibb McLaughlin Clifford Heatherley Lawrence Hanray
empress duke duchess princess emotional melodramatic russia st. petersburg, russia royal palace ambition royalty revolution marriage social change catherine the great rise transformation 18th century
Taken to Russia to marry Grand Duke Peter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), German Princess Catherine (Elisabeth Bergner) kicks him out and becomes empress.
Romance
1945
106 Minutes
Mrs. Catchpole
Anna Neagle Dean Jagger Rex Harrison Robert Morley Nancy Price Irene Vanbrugh Jane Darwell Elliot Arluck
army officer love interest soldier american man british man amusing lighthearted london united kingdom war love rivalry patriotism love rivalry 1940s
An Army sergeant (Dean Jagger) falls in love with a British major's (Rex Harrison) titled fiancee (Anna Neagle) in World War II London.