Googie Withers

Born: 1917-03-12

Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers CBE, AO was a British entertainer who had a lengthy career in theatre, film, and television.


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Night and the City

as Helen Nosseross
Released: 1950-06-15

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up...

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The Lady Vanishes

as Blanche
Released: 1938-10-07

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a...

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Shine

as Katharine Susannah Prichard
Released: 1996-08-15

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he...

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Dead of Night

as Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
Released: 1945-09-09

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds...

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Miranda

as Clare Martin
Released: 1948-04-06

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see...

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Country Life

as Hannah
Released: 1994-10-27

Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his...

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Lady Godiva Rides Again

as Susan Foster (actress in clip, "The Shadow of the Orient") (uncredited)
Released: 1951-10-25

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain...

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Forever Ealing

as Self
Released: 2002-12-05

This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows...

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White Corridors

as Dr. Sophie Dean
Released: 1951-01-12

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the...

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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

as Jo de Vries
Released: 1942-04-24

During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid...

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It Always Rains on Sunday

as Rose Sandigate
Released: 1947-11-28

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

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Derby Day

as Betty Molloy
Released: 1952-06-09

Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on...

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Northanger Abbey

as Mrs Allen
Released: 1987-02-15

A tale of intrigue, adventure and romance, this enchanting, remastered dramatization captures...

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Trouble Brewing

as Mary Brown
Released: 1939-03-01

Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes...

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The Silver Fleet

as Helène van Leyden
Released: 1943-03-15

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates...

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Accused

as Ninette Duval
Released: 1936-12-18

Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target...

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Strange Boarders

as Elsie
Released: 1938-05-01

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of...

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The Green Cockatoo

as uncredited
Released: 1937-12-01

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who...

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Convict 99

as Lottie
Released: 1938-09-26

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned...

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Back-Room Boy

as Bobbie
Released: 1942-04-15

Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a...

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Crime Over London

as Miss Dupres
Released: 1936-10-21

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where...

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Busman's Honeymoon

as Polly
Released: 1940-07-22

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime...

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The Magic Box

as Sitter in Bath Studio
Released: 1952-01-01

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...

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Hotel du Lac

as Mrs. Pusey
Released: 1986-03-02

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a...

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Dead Men Are Dangerous

as uncredited
Released: 1939-02-01

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a...

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The Gang's All Here

as Alice Forrest
Released: 1939-03-04

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns...

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Time After Time

as Leda Klein
Released: 1986-01-26

'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago...

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Pearls Bring Tears

as Doreen
Released: 1937-03-20

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only...

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On Approval

as Helen Hale
Released: 1944-05-22

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats....

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Kate Plus Ten

as Lady Moya
Released: 1938-03-17

Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike...

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Traveller's Joy

as Bumble Pelham
Released: 1950-12-25

A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before...

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Once Upon a Dream

as Carol Gilbert
Released: 1949-02-01

An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it...

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Pink String and Sealing Wax

as Pearl Bond
Released: 1945-11-22

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a...

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Port of Escape

as Anne Stirling
Released: 1956-05-01

Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man...

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They Came to a City

as Alice
Released: 1944-08-21

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

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Paradise for Two

as Miki
Released: 1937-12-22

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

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All at Sea

as Daphne Tomkins
Released: 1936-02-10

When mild mannered Joe comes into an inheritance, he leaves his job as a clerk, and embarks on a...

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The Loves of Joanna Godden

as Joanna Godden
Released: 1947-06-08

Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.

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Murder in Soho

as Lola Matthews
Released: 1939-02-01

A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.

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Nickel Queen

as uncredited
Released: 1971-03-31

Nickel Queen was an Australian comedy film released in 1971 starring Googie Withers and directed...

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The Love Test

as Minnie
Released: 1935-06-30

Romance set in a chemical factory.

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Crown v. Stevens

as Ella Levine
Released: 1936-08-03

When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She...

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Within These Walls

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-01-04

Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for...

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