Gertrude Lawrence – MRQE

Mimi

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.

Rembrandt

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he’s unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.

The Glass Menagerie

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

Men Are Not Gods

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his ‘Othello’.

No Funny Business

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

‘Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.’ (British Film Catalogue)

Lord Camber’s Ladies

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.

Aren’t We All?

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.