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- The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist Raymond Briggs.
- They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths. Jackie, Ethel and Joan had little choice. They were Kennedy women. What really unfolded behind the monolith of Kennedy power is revealed for the first time: the true story of the Kennedy reign told through the eyes of the three women who lived it.
- A documentary on Ethel Kennedy that provides an insider's view of a political dynasty, including her life with Robert F. Kennedy and the years following his death when she raised their eleven children on her own.
- Everyone in town knows the story of Old Aunt Ethel. It's said she makes Halloween candy and pumpkin pie out of the kids that trick-or-treat at her house. This Halloween, the neighborhood teens are going to find out the truth.
- Based on the story of Ethel Stark and how she founded the Montreal Women's Symphonic Orchestra
- After years in a mental institution, Ethel is taken in by her aunt, although many people, including the institution's head nurse and a local detective, believe that discharging her was a huge mistake.
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg go from feeding the poor during the Depression to embracing the ideals of Communism. However, after WWII, the USSR is no longer a U.S. ally and the Rosenbergs' political activities become dangerously subversive.
- Married couple, Ethel and Albert Arbuckle, living in the small town of Sandy Harbor.
- Brooklyn residents Joe Turp (William Gargan) and his wife, Ethel (Ann Sothern), travel to Washington D. C. to call on the US President (Lewis Stone)to make a pleas on the behalf of their mailman, Jim (Walter Brennan), is who about to be sacked for illegally opening and destroying a letter.
- The story of 2 lifelong nannies and the two families they worked for in Manhattan and Greenwich, Connecticut from the 1940's up to the 1990's. A film that shows the flip side of the privileged lifestyle.
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre was an anthology television series hosted by Ethel Barrymore.
- A short social realist drama about dealing with Alzheimer's Disease. Inspired by real events. The story follows two main characters Ethel, a vulnerable elderly lady with Alzheimer's and Jack, a small time drug dealer who needs more money fast. Ethel is an easy target and Jack knows this.
- An examination of the Rosenbergs, who were executed at Sing Sing Prison in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States.
- A NY photographer shares his pad with an abandoned circus elephant.
- Ketcher, a professional dog thief, steals a valuable dog from Mrs. Dapper and after that everybody gets involved, including Mr. Hadley, Ethel, Ed, her sweetheart, Bill and the cop. The intricate action consists in the rapid and surreptitious switching about of several stolen dogs by the clever Ketcher, until nobody can tell which dog is whose, and everybody is accusing everybody else of being a thief. The police court is helpless to disentangle the mix-up. But in the end Mrs. Dapper gets back her dog. Ethel and her young man are reconciled, and as a finishing touch, a fierce bulldog fastens himself to Bill's trousers.
- A pair of lovers, an overzealous friend and two young madcaps of girls, who get everybody into trouble, except themselves, are concerned in the fun. Jack Fuller expects to entertain his fiancée, Ethel Adams, at luncheon at the Brookdale Country Club. A telegram from his brothers, calling him to town immediately, makes him glad to accept his friend Bob Hall's offer to become his proxy and entertain the young lady in his place. The young mischiefs, Peggy and Dolly, overhear this conversation. As Bob Hall has never met the real Ethel they determine that there shall be three Ethels entertained at luncheon. They purchase orchids (which the real Ethel is to wear) dress up in their big sister's clothes and one at a time present themselves for Bob Hall's entertainment. Having been instructed to spare no expense. Bob provides an elaborate lunch for the first scapegrace, and when on the appearance of the second she confesses that she has played a joke on him, duplicates the luncheon for Dolly. In the midst of this second luncheon the real Ethel appears and Bob is in considerable trouble. Only the timely return of Jack from the city and the sight of the two girls laughing outside the café window from the club porch saves the situation and Bob from eternal disgrace.
- This Universal "Name Band Musical" short features Ethel Smith playing sambas, rhumbas and other Latin American music on the organ, backed up by Henry King's Orchestra. Other's featured were dancers Jon and Edna Torrence, band singer Bette Black, and the dancing Mayo Brothers.
- Mr. Hadley receives an early call from his fiancée, and it is arranged that she shall come back and go to luncheon with him. Bill, that morning, while delivering a message at another office, is smitten with the pretty stenographer, and on his return begins a letter to her, couched in terms of fondest endearment, on the typewriter. Before he has finished, however, he is sent on another errand, leaving his billet doux in the machine. Ethel has planned to take luncheon with her "steady," but being very busy at noon with some important letters, is unable to meet him at the time agreed. The steady comes to the office to find out what is the matter and sees Bill's love missive in the typewriter, and concludes this is the explanation. A few minutes later Mr. Hadley's fiancée returns and also discovers the letter. She hears sobs coming from the private office, and while they issue from an unhappy wife trying for a divorce, of course the young lady does not know this and suspects the worst. When at last the letter reaches the girl for whom it was intended, it falls into the hands of her sweetheart who promises that a recurrence of the offense will be painful for Bill. The luckless office boy has to explain all round, until at last everybody is pacified. But Bill makes up his mind that he had better journey through life in single blessedness.
- Singer Ethel Hook, sister of classical singer Clara Butt, sings in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Ethel is suddenly popular in her boarding-house when the men mistakenly think that her brother is wealthy. Becoming confused by all the attention, she agrees to marry three different men. Each arrives with a minister but Jake, the rich brother of another boarder, takes care of all three and marries Ethel himself.
- The young men are caught in a gambling raid and become stowaways on a passenger boat, on which the girl and her father are passengers.
- A fire-eating Italian is inclined to neglect his wife and spend most of his time buying wine for chorus-girl Trixie. The Italian's wife notifies Hadley, her lawyer, that she wishes to have divorce papers served on her husband as soon as Hadley is able to get evidence against the fickle man. Hadley instructs his stenographer Ethel to disguise herself as a man and follow the Italian to the café and watch his actions. Trixie, the chorus girl, happens to have more than one admirer, and one of these takes her to the café. The Italian sees this and almost starts a riot, but the frightened admirer saves his skin by turning Trixie over to his friend Ed. Then Ethel, in man's attire, arrives at the café and sees Ed--her sweetheart--with Trixie. Trixie thinks Ethel is a man and flirts with her; Ethel keeps up the flirtation to get even with Ed. Things turn about in such a way that the Italian, upon entering the café, sees his adorable Trixie in Ethel's company. A quarrel starts and Ethel's identity is disclosed to Ed. He comes to her assistance and Ethel has the pleasure of serving a summons on the Italian.
- Mr. Hadley is sought by a heart-sick bride who pleads with him to secure her a divorce. Ethel, meanwhile, has been invited out to luncheon by a new beau. She returns with a necklace which he has presented to her, and when the unhappy wife emerges from the private office, she instantly recognizes Ethel's latest ornament as the jewels which her faithless husband had stolen from her that very morning. She hastens to enlighten Ethel, and they conspire to lure Mr. Jones to the office to visit the stenographer. He rises to the bait, and then Ethel uses her powers on him to such good purpose that Hadley, watching with the wife from the inner office, considers the evidence sufficient to start divorce proceedings at once.
- On and off camera, Ethel Brown tells her personal story as a wrestler from the late 1940s to the mid 1950s. Ethel found glamour, travel, friendship, money and disillusionment.
- By the early twenty-first century, mankind had conquered the moon in rocket ships, sent robot probes to the planets of the solar system and beyond, and observed the limits of the known universe with radio telescopes. Yet, here on Earth there was always some scumbag who treated the world like a huge garbage dump as if they owned the place or something. Jack and Ethel, scourge to the ills of society, encounter two such people on a lonely country road and decide it's time to take a stand. Well, Jack does, anyway, and as ever it's up to Ethel to pull his chestnuts out of the fire once again.
- The Stenogs decide to give a ball and call upon Ethel to use her influence in getting Mr. Hadley to be the guest of honor. After finally consenting he sends Bill out to procure him a proper masquerade costume and notifies his sweetheart that he will meet her at the dance, at the same time describing his costume so she will recognize him. In the meantime, Ethel's fellow calls and would like to take Ethel but has no costume. Bill, quick to think gives him Mr. Hadley's and runs around to get Hadley another one. At the dance, Ethel's fellow is taken for Hadley and Hadley is taken for Ethel's fellow. Complications reach a serious stage when it comes time to unmask. After much trouble Bill explains how it came to happen and Hadley decides that in the future he will let the Stenogs have their dance without him.
- An elderly woman decides to sell her sofa, and an unscrupulous young man drops by to check it out. The question is - who's conning who?
- Ethel and Ed are engaged and Ed promises to take her to a swell café for lunch. On the way to meet her at noon, Ed is stopped by a young lady who is having trouble starting her new auto. Ed offers to help her. He gets into more trouble than he expected, but finally gets the car started and the young lady, believing Ed to be a wonder around autos, begs him to drive her home. To be polite, he does so, but unfortunately Ethel sees him getting into the auto and driving away. She believes Ed has deserted her. After escorting the young lady and her machine home, Ed rushes to the office, realizing that he is late for his engagement with Ethel, hie finds her in a fury and is unable to square himself. She gives back the ring. It happens that Bill, the office boy, has eaten too much lunch and, having heard the quarrel between Ed and Ethel, he is inclined to fall asleep. Bill wakes up to the fact that he is madly in love with Ethel. He proposes to her and she accepts him, more to spite Ed than anything else. Bill leaves a note to Hadley, his boss, to the effect that his office force is going to get married. Bill and Ethel have some trouble getting a license because Bill is so young, but he manages to get away with it by using stilts and a mustache. Hadley gets the note and notifies Ed. They rush to prevent the wedding but arrive too late. Ed is almost frantic and chokes Bill nearly to death. Luckily Bill wakes up about this time and finds that he has been dreaming. Ed manages to square himself with Ethel.
- Chester Long and Philip Marsden are close friends in college, until Philip graduates, he being in a higher class. A year later, Chester is forced to resign his college career in order to support his widowed mother. He, however, is unable to find employment until he meets Philip, who knowing his ability in running a car, recommends him for the position of a chauffeur with the family of his fiancée, Rose Warren. Now, Rose, has a sister Ethel, who admires Chester the moment she sees him and he falls desperately in love with her. The four young folks naturally see a great deal of each other, with the result that Philip and Rose have a big wedding and on the same night Ethel and Chester elope. Mr. Warren, Ethel's father, disowns her and forbids anyone mentioning her name. The relations between the young couples, however, remain unbroken and if anything, the trouble binds the sisters closer together. Two years later both couples have children born to them. Ethel and her baby are well and strong, but Rose's baby dies at birth and Rose herself lies at the point of death, calling for her dead baby. The doctor tells Philip that unless a substitute baby is procured, Rose will die. Then it is that Ethel, learning of her sister's condition, offers her baby as a substitute. After the child has been taken to Rose, Ethel passes the house daily in order to obtain a view of the little one through the window. One day as she reaches the house, she sees crepe on the door; Rose is dead. The consequent sorrow softens the heart of Ethel's father and when he learns the identity of the baby, whose presence prolonged the life of Rose, he once more takes Ethel to his arms and welcomes her husband to his home.
- Mr. Hadley censures Ethel for being late for work. Ed, her admirer, purchases an alarm clock so that Ethel will get up early in the morning. In the meantime Sylves, an excitable Italian, calls on Hadley, threatening to blow him unless he discontinues the divorce case that Hadley has started for Mrs. Sylves, because of Sylves' cruelty. Sylves hurries home, and, using the alarm clock for an infernal machine, proceeds to load it. After tying his wife so that she cannot give the alarm, Sylves leaves for Hadley's office. On his way he meets a boy who delivers the clock. By a coincidence. Ed's clock and Sylves' arrive at the same time and get into wrong hands, Ethel getting Sylves' and Hadley getting Ethel's. About this time a broken-down opera singer calls on Hadley, trying to have his contract contested, but poor Hadley thinks his mission has something to do with the plot. After much suspense and suffering on the part of Hadley, Mrs. Sylves gains her freedom and notifies the police, who arrive two minutes before the time set for the infernal machine to go off. It is hurled through a window, landing in the back of the office where Sylves is waiting to hear the result of his villainy, and he gets his just deserts.
- Mrs. Climber is giving a reception in honor of the Countess de Shilac, and Ethel is honored with an invitation. The Countess de Shilac is forced to send her regrets by a messenger, and by chance, a society crook intercepts the messenger and plans to have his adventuress wife go to the reception and pose as the countess. He then sends the boy on with the message. Mrs. Climber is deeply disappointed when she learns that the Countess will not be present. Ethel arrives, and Mrs. Climber, in order to satisfy her guests, introduces Ethel as Countess de Shilac. The crook and adventuress arrive and announce themselves as the Count and Countess. Mrs. Climber is in a quandary; she must not let her guests know her deception. She is very busy keeping the crook and adventuress in the reception room (where they help themselves to odd articles of jewelry), while Ethel is being made a great deal of by the guests in the parlor. Ethel accidentally learns that the Countess de Shilac is in the reception room (really the adventuress). She thinks it time for her to get away, but the guests pay her so much attention that she is unable to make a graceful exit. Some of the guests miss their jewelry. Ethel is acting strangely, and she is suspected. The crooks begin to feel uncomfortable and manage to plant one of the stolen articles on Ethel. Bill arrives with a message that Ethel hurry back to the office; the boss wants her. The guests now realize that Ethel is not the Countess and when the detectives arrive they point accusing fingers at her. The two crooks continue their role of count and countess. They show disgust at what is going on, and paying their respects to Mrs. Climber, start to go. Another detective in the hall recognizes them as crooks and brings them back. At this juncture, the real Countess de Shilac arrives, much to the surprise of all. The detectives find the two crooks utterly loaded down with valuables, and Ethel is released.
- Ethel lives in Helena, Arkansas, a mill town on the banks of the Mississippi. In this short documentary, she ruminates on faith, hope, generosity, and perseverance in hard times.
- Taking advantage of the boss's absence, Ethel decides to give a luncheon on the roof. Bill and his pal make up their minds that they should be included in the invitation, so they mount to the roof where Ethel and her guests are assembled. The hostess is not at all pleased at Bill's butting in, and at her request her male friends put the office boy and his chum off the roof and lock them out. Bill determines to give them a scare. So after nailing up the door, he starts some old rags smoldering. He and his pal then depart to get their lunch. The janitor smells smoke and soon locates the fire. The party, in their wild desire to reach safety, smash a window and receive the full force of the fire hose. Luncheon and gowns are ruined, but Ethel and her guests are rescued, amid the cheers of a large crowd gathered below.
- Ethel lives with her old aunt and uncle and is the pride of their hearts. One night she goes out to a party. Her old aunt gives her a key to the door so that she will not wake the old people on her return home. After the party some of the girls go with Ethel to her gate and then leave her. As she goes to open the door she finds she has lost the key, but a passing policeman manages to get the door open for her. Coming to the fire to get warm, Ethel sees a man's foot and a burglar comes out of the window holding a gun on her. The girl, instead of being frightened, reaches up and breaks the gun, showing it to be empty. Norton, the burglar, then tells her of being down on his luck and unable to get work. The girl takes pity on him and writes him a letter to her uncle asking that the burglar be put to work. Meanwhile the policeman has stumbled across the key, which Ethel lost, and returns to give it to her. Ethel goes to the door, and while she is out of the room, the thief goes to the safe which the girl left open, and starts to rifle the cash box. His better self prevails, however, and he closes the box but picks up a locket on the table. Opening it he sees a familiar face, and puts it into his pocket just as the girl returns. She misses the locket and asks about it; he begs her to let him keep it, and then tells her how years before he was passing the uncle's house, which was on fire and how at the risk of his life he had rushed in the burning house and saved the life of their baby niece, who was Ethel. She tells him she remembers the incident, and will give him a good picture, which she goes upstairs to get. The uncle hears noises below, and, slipping down, gets a policeman and arrests the burglar. They handcuff him and are about to take him out when Ethel returns and explains to her uncle. Norton promises the girl that he will lead a straight life from then on.
- Helena searches her house for her missing daughter Ethel, and then her husband Henry arrives home, and it becomes clear that things are not as they seemed to be.
- Ed, Ethel's beau, going out in the morning, accidentally leaves behind him a note from Ethel asking him to take her to luncheon that day. Ed's mother finds the note and thinking it is intended for Ed's father proceeds to look into matters. Meanwhile, Ed has called on his father to announce his intentions of marrying the fascinating stenographer. But father cannot see it at all. Ed calls for Ethel and they go to luncheon. A few minutes later, his father enters Hadley's office meaning to talk Ethel out of the match. Seeing a client of the lawyer's leaving the place, he follows her, believing her to be Ethel. She chances to enter the same restaurant where Ed and Ethel are. Ed, seeing his father coming, slips under the table, and is delighted to hear father entering into animated conversation with Ethel, who evidently is making a hit. Meanwhile, Ed's mother has traced her husband to Hadley's office. Learning that Ethel has gone out to luncheon with a gentleman, she hastens on to the café. At her approach, it is father's turn to get under the table, where he and Ed are brought unexpectedly face to face. Ed Sr. gives his consent to the match, and in return Ed Jr. squares things for father with mother.
- In 1936, with civil war sweeping through Spain, Ethel Macdonald - a working-class girl from Motherwell - was to become, for a year, one of the world's most famous voices. She was perhaps the first example of an 'embedded reporter', sending dispatches and broadcasts back from the Spanish Anarchist camp in Barcelona to the UK. But she made no pretence of 'impartiality' or balance of opinion; she was a lifelong anarchist, utterly committed to her cause. Mystery surrounds Ethel Macdonald, from her birth certificate to the last days of her life. When Ethel suddenly fell silent in Barcelona she became the focus of an international search and intergovernmental negotiations. In 1937 the optimism of the previous year had gone. Ethel had been imprisoned, escaped, and was in hiding in a foreign country in the grip of war. Dubbed on newspaper headlines 'The Scots Scarlet Pimpernel', she was imprisoned by her erstwhile comrades, the very people she had been fighting alongside; and now that she was silenced and in danger, she became even more of an enigma. This book, exactly a century after her birth, uses contemporary accounts, her own words and those of her close associates to unravel the extraordinary mystery of Ethel Macdonald and examines the unique impact that she had during this fascinating period of European history.
- Deacon Titus takes Ethel to the seashore. Hugh, her sweetheart, dons woman's clothes and follows, introducing himself as Ethel's teacher. Ethel's real teacher arrives later and when all go into the water Hugh's deception is discovered. Hugh puts his "female riggin' " in the deacon's bathhouse and goes home in the latter's clothes with Ethel, while the deacon is obliged to put on the discarded lady's costume. He is chased away by the irate merry-makers.
- Shot in 2011 and unreleased until 2021, this 'bonus episode' of Tony Martin's A Quiet Word with... (2010) features comedienne Andrea Powell as her character Ethel Chop, and was intended as an extra for the never-released DVD.
- A countryman saves a girl from being kidnapped by a Soho crook.