Margaret Lee (born Margaret Gwendolyn Box on 4 August 1943) is a British actress who was a popular leading lady in Italian films in the 1960s and 1970s. She is the mother of production manager/producer Roberto Malerba (from her marriage to Gino Malerba) and production coordinator Damian Anderson.
Lee was born in Wolverhampton, England and educated at the Italia Conti Theatre School in London; graduating in 1960. She moved to Rome shortly afterwards to pursue a career in films. Her film debut came in the sword and sandal adventure Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (1962), where she played the female lead alongside Reg Lewis, but it was a string of popular comedies that initially made Lee a star in Italy. With a blonde, fluffy look modelled after Marilyn Monroe, Lee spent the first half of the 1960s appearing in numerous Italian comedies and parodies - several of which starred the popular comedic duo Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia. Few of these films received much, if any, distribution in English-speaking territories but they were highly successful in Italy, and made Lee a well-known film actress.
Actors: Tom Archdeacon (actor), Terence Bernie Hines (actor), Tommy Hinkley (actor), Paul Hodge (actor), Poncho Hodges (actor), Matt Klein (actor), George Piscopo (actor), Rick Yudt (actor), Jackie Debatin (actress), Alexis Krause (actress), Anzu Lawson (actress), Soledad St. Hilaire (actress), Rebecca Staab (actress), Tom Archdeacon (producer), Jackie Debatin (producer),
Plot: Harry and Walt Johnsonn have to try and learn how to become real private eyes when an actual case is presented to them by LA Times columnist, Trudy Turnbow. Since the only cases they've solved until now are the ones they perpetrated, they must turn to their old friend, LAPD Detective Kate Pozinski for guidance... But, Kate's overly jealous boyfriend (LAPD Detective Garrity) takes an immediate and suspicious dislike to our heroes.
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Plot: Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...
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Plot: The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. One sister (Phyllis Calvert) is happily married but childless; the second promiscuously plays through years of an unhappy and loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted on her by a domineering husband (James Mason).
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Plot: The Knox and Lee families are old pioneers of Santa Barbara. The old gentlemen have long since agreed that their only children shall wed, thereby eventually bringing two considerable estates under one head. The boy, Paul Knox, Jr., has been abroad for several years and upon his return, when Knox, Sr., acquaints him with his wishes, Paul, with some spirit, declares himself and leaves his father's house, determined to shift for himself. Miss Margaret Lee, when informed by her father, is likewise independent and determined some one of her own choosing will be her husband, she quits her home and secures a position as model in a fashionable suit house. Paul, who has obtained employment as a chauffeur, meets her as a model. They fall in love and use fictitious names and do not discover their real identity until, while securing a marriage license, they are asked to sign their names. Of course, they are much surprised and laugh at the hopelessness of attempting to avoid that which fate has arranged for them and conclude to return home and be introduced properly.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Margaret Lee (born Margaret Gwendolyn Box on 4 August 1943) is a British actress who was a popular leading lady in Italian films in the 1960s and 1970s. She is the mother of production manager/producer Roberto Malerba (from her marriage to Gino Malerba) and production coordinator Damian Anderson.
Lee was born in Wolverhampton, England and educated at the Italia Conti Theatre School in London; graduating in 1960. She moved to Rome shortly afterwards to pursue a career in films. Her film debut came in the sword and sandal adventure Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (1962), where she played the female lead alongside Reg Lewis, but it was a string of popular comedies that initially made Lee a star in Italy. With a blonde, fluffy look modelled after Marilyn Monroe, Lee spent the first half of the 1960s appearing in numerous Italian comedies and parodies - several of which starred the popular comedic duo Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia. Few of these films received much, if any, distribution in English-speaking territories but they were highly successful in Italy, and made Lee a well-known film actress.
The Independent | 16 Mar 2019
The Independent | 16 Mar 2019
International Business Times | 16 Mar 2019