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  • Our Town
  • Our Town review by RJNeb2 from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Small town, big ideas 15 May 2010
    ...ny - but once you get into the rhythm of its artifice, it has its appeal. While Martha Scott and William Holden are not at all convincing as 17 year olds, she goes on to gi...   Read customer review
  • Cheers For Miss Bishop
  • Cheers For Miss Bishop review by Cato from Lydbury North
    Rated - 2.0 stars Poor Quality Film 18 November 2010
    ...being rather glad of this, as the film was not a good one, with the 27 year old Martha Scott having to age something like 50 years in the course of the story, which was maw...   Read customer review

Martha Scott - filmography


  • The Turning Point on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Martha Scott,  Mikhail Baryshnikov,  Antoinette Sibley
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Oscar-nominated drama starring Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft. As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee (MacLaine) left the stage for marriage and motherhood while Emma (Bancroft) would become an international ballet icon. When Deedee's teenage daughter (Leslie Browne) ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 255 members
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  • Ben Hur on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Martha Scott,  Andre Morell,  Jack Hawkins
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited writers including Gore Vidal and Maxwell Anderson, the film once more recounts the tale of Jewish prince ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 8,533 members
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  • Ben-Hur - Blu-ray (1959)
    Starring: Martha Scott,  Andre Morell,  Jack Hawkins
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ben Hur (Charlton Heston) is a Jewish prince who falls out with his close Roman friend (Stephen Boyd) when he refuses to promote Roman rule over his people - his mother and sister are imprisoned and he is enslaved. Hur plans and achieves revenge, but finds true peace when he joins the new following ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 365 members
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  • Sayonara (1957)
    Starring: Martha Scott,  James Garner,  Miyoshi Umeki
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nominated for 10 Oscars and winning 4, this is a beautifully portrayed film which depicts the racism on both sides at the time of a Korean conflict. Marlon Brando is an army major who falls for a Japanese dancer and faces fierce opposition from both the American and the Japanese authorities when he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 199 members
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  • The Desperate Hours (1955)
    Starring: Martha Scott,  Fredric March,  Dewey Martin
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the novel and play by Joseph Hayes, which in turn was inspired by an actual event, The Desperate Hours is the prototypical family-trapped-by-criminals drama. Escaped convicts Humphrey Bogart, Robert Middleton and Dewey Martin, seeking an appropriate hideout until they can make contact with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 513 members
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  • Cheers For Miss Bishop on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Martha Scott,  Edmund Gwenn,  William Gargan
    Director: Tay Garnett
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    As a woman, Ella Bishop's ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only chance at true love. Her life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects on the years which went by too fast and she believes she never reached her true fulfillment. However, it hasn't ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 17 members
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  • Our Town on DVD (1940)
    Starring: William Holden,  Martha Scott,  Fay Bainter
    Director: Sam Wood
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Touching film version of Thornton Wilders Pulitzer Prize winning play that explores the love, humour and pain in the lives of two families in the woodsy New Hampshire town, Grovers Corners. William Holden and Martha Scott succumb to adolescent affections before maturing, marrying and bearing a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 63 members
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  • The Howards Of Virginia on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Martha Scott,  Richard Carlson,  Cary Grant
    Director: Frank Lloyd
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbrining when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 130 members
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Martha Scott facts

5 most recent films

The Turning Point - 3.0 stars
Cimarron Strip - E09 - The Search - 2.0 stars
Ben Hur - 3.5 stars
Ben-Hur - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Sayonara - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ben-Hur - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Ben Hur - 3.5 stars
The Ten Commandments - 3.5 stars
The Desperate Hours - 3.5 stars
The Turning Point - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cheers For Miss Bishop - 2.0 stars
In Old Oklahoma - 3.5 stars
The Ten Commandments - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Our Town - 2.5 stars
The Howards Of Virginia - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charlton Heston - 4 times - show films
Faye Bainter - 3 times - show films
Beulah Bondi - 3 times - show films
Fay Bainter - 3 times - show films
William Holden - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

William Wyler - 7 times - show films
Sam Wood - 3 times - show films
Tay Garnett - 2 times - show films
Cecil B. DeMille - 2 times - show films
Cecil B. De Mille - 2 times - show films