Ruby Dandridge

Ruby Dandridge

Born: March 3, 1900
Died: October 17, 1987

Movies for Ruby Dandridge...

Title: Father of the Bride
Character: Delilah
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: TV
Father of the Bride is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1961-62 season. Produced by MGM Television, the series was based on the 1950 film of the same title. Cast members include Leon Ames as the father of the bride, Ruth Warrick as the mother, and Myrna Fahey as the bride.
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A Hole in the Head
Title: A Hole in the Head
Character: Sally
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: Movie
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
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Title: Yancy Derringer
Character: Lily Rose Beam
Released: October 2, 1958
Type: TV
Yancy Derringer is an American Western series
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Title: Amos 'n' Andy
Character: Henrietta Smith (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: TV
A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.
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Title: The Beulah Show
Character: Oriole
Released: October 3, 1950
Type: TV
The Beulah Show is an American situation-comedy series that ran on CBS Radio from 1945 to 1954, and on ABC Television from 1950 to 1952. The show is notable for being the first sitcom to star an African American actress.
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Father Is a Bachelor
Title: Father Is a Bachelor
Character: Lily - the Maid (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
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Tap Roots
Title: Tap Roots
Character: Dabby
Released: August 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
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My Wild Irish Rose
Title: My Wild Irish Rose
Character: Della
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
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Uncle Tom's Cabana
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabana
Character: Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin. (Uncle Tom's Cabaña is a 1947 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery. The short is a parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and is Avery's second parody of the novel, the first being Uncle Tom's Bungalow in 1937 while at Warner Bros. Cartoons)
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The Arnelo Affair
Title: The Arnelo Affair
Character: Maybelle, Parkson's Maid
Released: February 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
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Dead Reckoning
Title: Dead Reckoning
Character: Hyacinth (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Sergeant Johnny Drake runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy Captain 'Rip' Murdock gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.
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Home in Oklahoma
Title: Home in Oklahoma
Character: Devoria Lassiter
Released: October 18, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. "Pappy" O'Daniel possibly the only state governors to write songs used in a western), Flying U ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards comes to check a rumor that he might have been murdered. She goes to Roy Rogers, editor of the local newspaper, and he takes her to the reading of Talbot's will. The ranch is left to Talbot's 12-year-old ward, Duke Lowery, much to the dismay of Talbot's niece, Jan Holloway. After some attempts on Duke's life, Roy finally proves that Jan, Steve McClory and coroner Jim Judnick had Talbot killed and are conspiring to do the same for Duke, making Jan the last heir.
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Three Little Girls in Blue
Title: Three Little Girls in Blue
Character: Mammy
Released: September 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.
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Inside Job
Title: Inside Job
Character: Ivory
Released: June 14, 1946
Type: Movie
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
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Junior Miss
Title: Junior Miss
Character: Rheba
Released: June 16, 1945
Type: Movie
A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.
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The Clock
Title: The Clock
Character: Milk Customer
Released: May 25, 1945
Type: Movie
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
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Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
Title: Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
Released: September 2, 1944
Type: Movie
The stories of "Goldilocks" and "Little Red Riding Hood" collide with the world of jazz, resulting in three jiving bears and a jitterbugging Big Bad Wolf.
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Melody Parade
Title: Melody Parade
Character: Ruby
Released: August 27, 1943
Type: Movie
The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
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Cabin in the Sky
Title: Cabin in the Sky
Character: Mrs. Kelso
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
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Corregidor
Title: Corregidor
Character: Hyacinth
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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Flop Goes the Weasel
Title: Flop Goes the Weasel
Character: Mammy (voice)
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
While Mammy is gone to catch a worm for her about-to-hatch egg, a weasel steals the egg for his breakfast. When the egg hatches, the blabbermouth chick initially mistakes the weasel for his Mammy.
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A Night for Crime
Title: A Night for Crime
Character: Alice Jones/Cook (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1943
Type: Movie
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
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Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
Title: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
Character: Queen's Sweet Voice / Queen's Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Spoof of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) with an all-black cartoon cast.
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Tish
Title: Tish
Character: Violet
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Title: The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Character: Maid
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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Broken Strings
Title: Broken Strings
Character: Dancer
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.
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Midnight Shadow
Title: Midnight Shadow
Character: Mrs. Lingley
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A confidence man pretending to be a mentalist swindles a family.