Nova Pilbeam

Nova Pilbeam

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nova Margery Pilbeam (15 November 1919 – 17 July 2015) was an English film and stage actress. Pilbeam gained attention as a child stage actress. This led to much work in her teen years. She appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), in which she plays a girl who is abducted, following this with her lead performance as Lady Jane Grey in Tudor Rose (1936). She had a starring role in Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937), which she regarded as "the sunniest film I was involved with", and formed a constructive professional relationship with Hitchcock. She appeared in an early British television drama in 1939. That year David O. Selznick wanted Pilbeam for the lead in Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), and thought she could be an international film star. However, her agent was worried about the length of a five-year contract; meanwhile, Hitchcock, whose outlook on the film was not the same as Selznick's, auditioned hundreds of others over many months, at last giving the role to Joan Fontaine. Unlike some of her peers, Pilbeam never made a film in Hollywood. She continued acting, with appearances in at least nine British films along with many stage roles, throughout the 1940s. One of her last films was The Three Weird Sisters (1948). She remained working on stage for a short while longer, appearing at the Duchess Theatre in Toni Block's play Flowers for the Living in February 1950. Pilbeam married Pen Tennyson, a great-grandson of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson and an assistant director to Hitchcock, in 1939. Tennyson became a film director the year they were married, but died in a plane crash in 1941 while working as part of the Admiralty's instructional films unit. She was married to BBC Radio journalist Alexander Whyte from 1950 until his death in 1972. Their child Sarah Jane was born in 1952. In her last years, Pilbeam lived in Dartmouth Park, north London. She died on 17 July 2015 in London, aged 95.

  • Title: Nova Pilbeam
  • Popularity: 1.561
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1919-11-15
  • Place of Birth: Wimbledon, London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Nova Margery Pilbeam, Нова Пилбим
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Nova Pilbeam Movies

  • 1937
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    Young and Innocent

    Young and Innocent

    6.6 1937 HD

    Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to...

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  • 1934
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    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    6.4 1934 HD

    While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been...

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  • 1943
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    Yellow Canary

    Yellow Canary

    5.1 1943 HD

    A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.

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  • 1939
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    Cheer Boys Cheer

    Cheer Boys Cheer

    5.8 1939 HD

    Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

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  • 1948
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    The Three Weird Sisters

    The Three Weird Sisters

    7 1948 HD

    Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the...

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  • 1947
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    Green Fingers

    Green Fingers

    6 1947 HD

    A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is...

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  • 1940
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    Pastor Hall

    Pastor Hall

    7.6 1940 HD

    The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching...

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  • 1934
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    Little Friend

    Little Friend

    3.5 1934 HD

    A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

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  • 1942
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    Banana Ridge

    Banana Ridge

    5.8 1942 HD

    When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.

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  • 1948
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    Counterblast

    Counterblast

    6 1948 HD

    An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned...

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  • 1936
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    Tudor Rose

    Tudor Rose

    8.1 1936 HD

    The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

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  • 1946
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    This Man Is Mine

    This Man Is Mine

    1 1946 HD

    One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

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  • 1939
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    Prison Without Bars

    Prison Without Bars

    1 1939 HD

    1939 BBC studio production of Peggy Barwell’s play Prison without Bars, set in a girls’ reformatory, which was adapted from a German play...

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  • 1941
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    Spring Meeting

    Spring Meeting

    4.8 1941 HD

    Tiny Fox-Collier and her son, Tony, are broke. A cheery and handsome young man about town, Tony knows he can rely on his mother for a brainwave to...

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  • 1942
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    The Next of Kin

    The Next of Kin

    5 1942 HD

    Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of...

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  • 1944
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    Out of Chaos

    Out of Chaos

    1 1944 HD

    Examines the role of art in WWII; featuring Henry Moore's drawings of London Underground during bombing raids, Paul Nash's paintings of aircraft...

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