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Kind Lady is a remake of a 1935 film of the same name, starring Ethel Barrymore as a wealthy art collector who is tricked by a con artist and his accomplices. The film is a crime drama directed by John Sturges and features Angela Lansbury and Keenan Wynn in supporting roles.
Kind Lady is a film about a wealthy and charitable woman who is tricked by a con artist and his wife into letting them stay in her home. They plan to steal everything she owns, but she and her housemaid manage to expose their plot and save themselves.
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home. The film is based on a short story and a play by Hugh Walpole and Edward Chodorov.
- John Sturges, Joel Freeman
- Ethel Barrymore
Kind Lady: Directed by John Sturges. With Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury, Keenan Wynn. Mary Herries (Ethel Barrymore) has a passion for art and fine furniture.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- John Sturges
- 1951-06-20
When aging art collector Mary Herries (Ethel Barrymore) invites struggling young painter Henry Elcott (Maurice Evans) and his ailing wife, Ada (Betsy Blair), into her home, she little suspects ...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Mystery & Thriller
- John Sturges
Kind Lady is a 1935 play by Edward Chodorov about an elderly woman who is conned by criminals. It was adapted into two films by MGM and a TV show.
A dignified, aristocratic woman living quietly in her London home is gradually surrounded by diabolically clever crooks who ingeniously alienate her family and friends and nearly convince them that she is hopelessly insane.
