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For much of her career, well into her seventies, she played mostly minor roles. [4] She first appeared in a film at age 53, in 1932, but never received critical acclaim for her performances until 1955, when she starred, aged 76, in the Ealing Studios comedy The Ladykillers as Mrs Louisa Wilberforce. [ 2 ]
The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios.It stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, and Katie Johnson as the old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce.
The Ladykillers: Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. With Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers. Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Alexander Mackendrick
- 1956-02-03
Louisa Wilberforce : [Mrs. Wilberforce knocks on the door, and starts pacing in no answer] Oh, oh dear, oh dear. Poor Mr. Robinson. Louisa Wilberforce : [she knocks again, this time the music stops and Claude opens the door] I'm so sorry, Major Courtney, but I'm afraid General Gordon has bitten Mr. Robinson's finger.
The Ladykillers is a classic black comedy. Mrs Wilberforce, a sweet little old lady, rents out a room in her lopsided house to Marcus, a professor of music. She is blissfully unaware that he is actually a maniacal criminal who is putting together against a gang of misfits who will stop at nothing to commit the heist of their careers.
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Carol Oddy plays kindly Mrs Wilberforce, a sweet old lady blissfully unaware of the true intentions of Professor Marcus and Co.
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- The Playhouse Company, Cheltenham
