List of the best Jean Cadell movies: Little Friend(1934), Keep It Clean(1956), Love From a Stranger(1937), The Little Hut(1957), Pygmalion(1938), Whisky Galore!(1949), Serious Charge(1959), David Copperfield(1935) ... ...
Drama
UK
1934
85 Minutes
Miss Drew
Matheson Lang Lydia Sherwood Nova Pilbeam Arthur Margetson Jean Cadell Jimmy Hanley Gibb McLaughlin Diana Cotton
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
Comedy
UK
1956
75 Minutes
Mrs. Anstey
Ronald Shiner Diane Hart James Hayter Ursula Howells Jean Cadell Joan Sims
A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.
Mystery & Thriller
1937
87 Minutes
Aunt Lou
Ann Harding Basil Rathbone Binnie Hale Bruce Seton Jean Cadell Bryan Powley Joan Hickson Donald Calthrop Eugene Leahy
stenographer fiancé serial killer aunt maid doctor dark suspenseful uneasy england apartment ship france country house country fair deception elopement lottery marriage isolation
An English lottery winner (Ann Harding) slowly realizes her suave new husband (Basil Rathbone) plans to kill her.
Romance
UK|USA
1957
78 Minutes
Mrs. Hermione Brittingham-Brett
Ava Gardner Stewart Granger David Niven Walter Chiari Finlay Currie Jean Cadell Jack Lambert Henry Oscar Viola Lyel Jaron Yaltan
beautiful woman husband friend chef mother father sultry cheeky emotional amusing london sea island boat love triangle shipwreck jealousy career vs. love friendship marriage
When shipwrecked on a deserted island, best friends Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett compete against each other for the affections of the only woman available, Philip Ashlow's neglected wife, Susan.
Romance
UK
1938
96 Minutes
Mrs. Pearce
Leslie Howard Wendy Hiller Wilfrid Lawson Marie Lohr David Tree Scott Sunderland Jean Cadell Everley Gregg Leueen MacGrath Esme Percy
flower girl professor socialite father charming endearing witty london party household class distinctions love culture clash transformation love 1910s
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
Comedy, War
UK
1949
82 Minutes
Mrs. Campbell
Basil Radford Joan Greenwood Gordon Jackson Catherine Lacey Bruce Seton Wylie Watson Gabrielle Blunt Jean Cadell Morland Graham John Gregson James Woodburn
shopkeeper daughter sailor military officer villager captain airy amusing cheeky scotland island ship small town countryside world war ii military rebellion liquor pursuit discovery
Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
Drama
1959
105 Minutes
Almshouse Matron
Anthony Quayle Sarah Churchill Andrew Ray Irene Browne Percy Herbert Noel Howlett Wensley Pithey Leigh Madison Judith Furse Jean Cadell Wilfrid Brambell
vicar petty criminal pregnant teen jealous woman parishioner wrongly accused brooding melodramatic intense dark engaging uneasy england wrongfully accused allegation teen pregnancy small-town life religion child abuse discovery
A punk (Andrew Ray) commits murder and accuses the new minister (Anthony Quayle) in town of the crime.
Drama
USA
1935
130 Minutes
W.C. Fields Freddie Bartholomew Basil Rathbone Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan Madge Evans Edna May Oliver Lewis Stone Elizabeth Allan Roland Young Elsa Lanchester
young boy stepfather father ingénue blackmailer aunt melodramatic london family home office wealth family child abuse blackmail love triangle growing up rescue love 19th century
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.