Geraldine Fitzgerald
13 titles
Filmography
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The Mango Tree
(1977)The arrival of an unhinged preacher upends the idyllic life of a high school senior who trades his rural roots for the city as he faces the war draft.

Nobody Lives Forever
(1946)Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after the war, only to find heartache and betrayal. Heading west, Nick hooks up with fellow con men Pop (Walter Brennan) and Doc (George Coulouris), who need a Romeo to sweep recently widowed Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine Fitzgerald) off her feet and out of her sizable inheritance. But it's Nick who starts falling, and now that he wants out of the scam, will that fall turn into a dive? Or will Gladys pay the price for Nick's change of heart? Garfield is his usual astonishing self, it's Fitzgerald who proves a revelation, as she stabs at the heart of noir's darkness by perfectly impersonating pure innocence. Faye Emerson plays the fatale, as Nick's sultry ex.

Shining Victory
(1941)A psychiatrist sacrifices everything for his research.

Wilson
(1944)An all-star cast illuminates the amazing story of Woodrow Wilson, who went from Princeton head to New Jersey Governor to U.S. President, ultimately bringing World War I to an end.

Three Strangers
(1946)Three strangers, three incredibly dangerous people drawn together by their greed. Each ready to kill for the riches of ...Kwan Yin. Jean Negulesco was truly hitting his stride with his classic run of film noirs when he crafted this stylish thriller in which three strangers find their destinies entwined with a mysterious, foreign idol, "The Masters of Mystery," Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, play two of the strangers, while Geraldine Fitzgerald proves more than a match for the two screen greats as the third. According to a legend, if three strangers gather before the fables idol of Kwan Yin and make a common wish, the wish shall be granted. Spurned spouse Crystal Shackleford (Fitzgerald) has the idol and enlists a sleazy solicitor (Greenstreet) and a drunken thief (Lorre) in her plans for riches and revenge. But the two strangers have dreams of their own that collide with hers when the idol's powers prove to be real.

The Moon and Sixpence
(1959)A dull Englishman abruptly abandons his middle-class life, his family and his duties to follow his dreams of becoming a painter in the South Seas.

Watch on the Rhine
(1943)Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington.

Easy Money
(1983)To inherit $10 million from his stern mother-in-law, a working-class slob has one year to give up his boozing, gambling and womanizing ways.

The Last American Hero
(1973)Junior Jackson is a Southern boy with a penchant for driving too fast along his native North Carolina backroads. But when his father, Elroy, is jailed for moonshining, Junior decides to go pro, if only to be able to buy Elroy a few prison privileges. With the help of his brother, Wayne, he slowly climbs the ranks of the various racing circuits. Often at odds with corporate sponsors, Jackson nevert

Dark Victory
(1939)Bette Davis stars as a hedonistic socialite who learns to value the simple things in life after being diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor in this three-hanky drama.

Christmas at the Palace
(2018)Katie begins training a young princess of a small European country to prepare for a Christmas Eve tradition and finds herself clashing with both the entitled girl and her father who struggles with his responsibilities of being a single dad.

Bump in the Night
(1991)Martha, an alcoholic divorcee, must overcome her bitterness and vices in order to find her missing son and the child molester who kidnapped him.

The Ace of Spades
(1935)When a wealthy landowner is murdered, suspicion falls on an adulterous political candidate who is incriminated by evidence written on a playing card.