Wanda McKay

Wanda McKay

Born: June 22, 1915
Died: April 11, 1996
in Portland, Oregon, USA

Movies for Wanda McKay...

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Title: Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Character: New York Operator (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: Movie
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
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Fast and Foolish
Title: Fast and Foolish
Released: November 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Gil Lamb's got a rival for his girl.
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Roaring City
Title: Roaring City
Character: Sylvia Rand
Released: May 4, 1951
Type: Movie
A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
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The Golden Eye
Title: The Golden Eye
Character: Evelyn Manning
Released: August 29, 1948
Type: Movie
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.
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Jungle Goddess
Title: Jungle Goddess
Character: Greta Vanderhorn
Released: August 13, 1948
Type: Movie
When a plane carrying the daughter of a millionaire crashes in an African jungle, two pilots set out to collect the reward. They discover that she has become the goddess of a primitive tribe. An insurgent witch doctor and fierce wild animals make escape from the jungle difficult for the trio.
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Jinx Money
Title: Jinx Money
Character: Virginia
Released: June 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Helen Howard
Released: June 13, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
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Because of Eve
Title: Because of Eve
Character: Sally Stephens
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A doctor uses films about venereal disease and the human reproductive system to educate a young married couple.
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Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Title: Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Character: Millicent Perker
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
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Kilroy Was Here
Title: Kilroy Was Here
Character: Connie Harcourt
Released: July 19, 1947
Type: Movie
"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.
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Goodbye, Weeds
Title: Goodbye, Weeds
Character: Susan
Released: October 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A sales pitch for an herbicide/fertilizer for the lawn made by Sherwin Williams.
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Sensation Hunters
Title: Sensation Hunters
Character: Helen
Released: October 12, 1945
Type: Movie
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
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Hollywood and Vine
Title: Hollywood and Vine
Character: Martha Manning
Released: April 25, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
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There Goes Kelly
Title: There Goes Kelly
Character: Anne Mason
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Musical turned murder mystery set at a radio station.
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Belle of the Yukon
Title: Belle of the Yukon
Character: Cherie Atterbury
Released: December 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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Leave It to the Irish
Title: Leave It to the Irish
Character: Nora O'Brien
Released: August 26, 1944
Type: Movie
A private eye (James Dunn) investigates the murder of a fur dealer. Monogram.
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Raiders of Ghost City
Title: Raiders of Ghost City
Character: Cathy Haines
Released: July 25, 1944
Type: Movie
During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?
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The Monster Maker
Title: The Monster Maker
Character: Patricia Lawrence
Released: April 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
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Voodoo Man
Title: Voodoo Man
Character: Betty Benton
Released: February 21, 1944
Type: Movie
A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
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What a Man!
Title: What a Man!
Character: Joan Rankin
Released: January 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
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Smart Guy
Title: Smart Guy
Character: Jean Wickers
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
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The Deerslayer
Title: The Deerslayer
Character: Hetty Hutter
Released: November 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Deerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons steal Princess Wah Tah, the betrothed of his friend Jingo-Good. His friends, the Hutters, are a white family living on an ark in the middle of a lake. The Hurons attack them and Deerslayer enlists the aid of scout Harry March, who is escorting sixty-five brides to the near-by settlement. Deerslayer and Harry are both in love with Judith Hutter, who is secretly in love with Harry. The Hurons succeed in capturing her father and Harry, where-upon Judith's sister Hetty, playing on an Indian superstition never to harm an insane person, feigns madness and makes an escape. Hutter, Judith, Hetty and Princess Wah-Tah return to the ark, where they ate attacked by the waiting Hurons and Hetty is killed. Deerslayer, Harry and the settlement men arrive to time to drive the Hurons away.
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Danger! Women at Work
Title: Danger! Women at Work
Character: Doris Bendix
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
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Black Raven
Title: Black Raven
Character: Lee Winfield
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
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Corregidor
Title: Corregidor
Character: Nurse Jane 'Hey-Dutch' Van Dornen
Released: March 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
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Bowery at Midnight
Title: Bowery at Midnight
Character: Judy Malvern
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Linda Fremont
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and his pals Jeff Travis and Fuzzy Jones are arrested and brought to Fort Culver, where Billy is amazed to discover that he and the post commander Lieutenant Ted Morrison, are exact doubles.
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Texas Justice
Title: Texas Justice
Character: Kate Stewart
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.
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One Thrilling Night
Title: One Thrilling Night
Character: Millie Jason
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
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Rolling Down the Great Divide
Title: Rolling Down the Great Divide
Character: Rita
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range detectives must find a way to capture the gang.
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The Royal Mounted Patrol
Title: The Royal Mounted Patrol
Character: Betty Duvalle
Released: November 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol. When villainous lumberman Frenchy Duvalle refuses to limit his wood-chopping activities, he inadvertently touches off a forest fire. Trapped in the middle of the conflagration, Frenchy's only hope for rescue is mountie Tom Jeffries, presently scouring the countryside in his scout plane. Jeffries' reasons for bringing Frenchy out safely are twofold: he must deliver the renegade lumberjack to the authorities, and he happens to be in love with Frenchy's sister Betty.
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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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Twilight on the Trail
Title: Twilight on the Trail
Character: Lucy Brent
Released: September 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detectives from the east, to investigate the disappearances, without a trace, of several herds of cattle.
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The Pioneers
Title: The Pioneers
Character: Suzanna Ames
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Daughter on Ship (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Life with Henry
Title: Life with Henry
Character: Girl on Theatre Stage (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Showgirl
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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The Mad Doctor
Title: The Mad Doctor
Character: Girl at Charity Bazaar (Uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
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Dancing on a Dime
Title: Dancing on a Dime
Character: Lulu
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Lois
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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The Way of All Flesh
Title: The Way of All Flesh
Character: Cigarette Girl
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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All Women Have Secrets
Title: All Women Have Secrets
Character: Jessie
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Title: $1,000 a Touchdown
Character: Babe (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.