Lynn Merrick

Lynn Merrick

Born: November 19, 1919
Died: March 25, 2007
in Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Movies for Lynn Merrick...

Escape From Terror
Title: Escape From Terror
Character: Lee Brooks
Released: April 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A couple who have escaped from the Baltics to Copenhagen are pursued by a KGB officer.
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I Love Trouble
Title: I Love Trouble
Character: Mrs. Johnston
Released: January 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
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Dangerous Business
Title: Dangerous Business
Character: Lizbeth Ellsworth
Released: June 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him.
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A Close Call for Boston Blackie
Title: A Close Call for Boston Blackie
Character: Geraldine 'Gerry' Peyton
Released: January 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
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Voice of the Whistler
Title: Voice of the Whistler
Character: Joan Martin Sinclair
Released: October 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
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Blonde from Brooklyn
Title: Blonde from Brooklyn
Character: Susan Parker
Released: June 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach them to be "southern" so they can land a radio gig for sponsor Plantation Coffee. Comedy.
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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Title: Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Character: Constance Gloria Mannard
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
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A Guy, a Gal and a Pal
Title: A Guy, a Gal and a Pal
Character: Helen Carter
Released: March 8, 1945
Type: Movie
A young woman devises a clever scheme to secure a train reservation by pretending to be married to a stranger.
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Meet Miss Bobby Socks
Title: Meet Miss Bobby Socks
Character: Helen Tyler
Released: December 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A teenage fan sets out to boost her favorite radio singer's career. Comedy with songs.
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Stars on Parade
Title: Stars on Parade
Character: Dorothy Dean
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It" (Jack Lawrence), "It's Love, Love, Love" (Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer), "When They Ask about You" (Sammy Stept), "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" (Ben Carter, Mayes Marshall), "Taking Care of You" (Lou Brown, Harry Akst), "Where Am I Without You?" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul), "Two Hearts in the Dark" (Dave Franklin), "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
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Nine Girls
Title: Nine Girls
Character: Eve Sharon
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
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Swing Out the Blues
Title: Swing Out the Blues
Character: Penelope Carstairs
Released: December 23, 1943
Type: Movie
The film is partly a parody of The Goodwill Court, a popular radio problem hosted by advice-dispenser "Mr. Anthony". The host of a "What's your problem?" radio hour tries to smooth the romantic path of singer Rich Cleveland (Haymes) and his socialite wife Penelope (Lynn Merrick). The fly in the ointment is Dena Marshall (Janis Carter), who has set her sights on the handsome Rich.
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The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
Title: The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
Character: Ellen Trotter
Released: December 9, 1943
Type: Movie
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
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Is Everybody Happy?
Title: Is Everybody Happy?
Character: Ann
Released: October 28, 1943
Type: Movie
This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
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Doughboys in Ireland
Title: Doughboys in Ireland
Character: Gloria Gold
Released: October 7, 1943
Type: Movie
According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenny Baker plays Manhattan orchestra leading Danny O'Keefe, who is drafted into the army along with a Ritz Brothers-like quartet called The Jesters. Stationed in Ireland, Danny believes that his New York sweetheart Gloria (Lynn Merrick) has forgotten about him, thus he inaugurates a romance with Irish colleen Molly Callahan (Jeff Donnell).
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Dangerous Blondes
Title: Dangerous Blondes
Character: May Ralston
Released: September 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
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Fugitive from Sonora
Title: Fugitive from Sonora
Character: Dixie Martin
Released: June 30, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, a paroled desperado and his twin, a preacher, wander about the Old West to bring "salvation." The parson begins trying to help a gang leader's niece whose uncle has been forcing parolees to join him or return to prison. Naturally he tries to rope the paroled twin into his gang.
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Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Nurse
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Days of Old Cheyenne
Title: Days of Old Cheyenne
Character: Nancy Carlyle
Released: March 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Clint Ross's skill at fisticuffs earns him the town marshal's job in Cheyenne. Thanks to the string-pulling of political boss Big Bill Harmon, Ross makes it all the way up to the governor's office. But when Ross figures out that Big Bill is a big crook, it's showdown time.
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Carson City Cyclone
Title: Carson City Cyclone
Character: Linda Wade
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
When the night watchman at the bank is gunned down during a robbery, he fingers Barton as the trigger man. When the trial comes up in neighboring Carson City, Gil finds a witness named Shepherd who says that Barton was with him on the night of the murder. Gil gets Barton off, but Shepherd soon cashes a check from Gil at the bank and that raises questions. His father, Judge Phalen, starts an action against Gil, and when his father is shot dead, Gil is blamed for his murder.
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Dead Man's Gulch
Title: Dead Man's Gulch
Character: Mary Logan
Released: February 12, 1943
Type: Movie
When the Pony Express disbands, riders Tennessee and Johnny head for Adobe Wells. Tennessee becomes the Deputy Marshal while Johnny joins an outlaw gang. It's not long before Tennessee catches Johny attempting murder. As Johhnny is his best friend, he gives him another chance. But to no avail as Johnny murders a man and this time Tennessee must do his duty.
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Mountain Rhythm
Title: Mountain Rhythm
Character: Linda Weaver
Released: January 8, 1943
Type: Movie
The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
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Outlaws of Pine Ridge
Title: Outlaws of Pine Ridge
Character: Ann Hollister
Released: October 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Director William Witney puts his distinctive stamp on the Don "Red" Barry western Outlaws of Pine Ridge by opening the picture with a body sailing through the plate-glass window of a frontier saloon. Barry stars as gun-slingin' Chips Barrett, who makes it his mission in life to prevent the inaccurately nicknamed Honest John Hollister (Noah Beery Sr.) from becoming territorial governor. Complicating things is the fact that Chips is in love with Honest John's daughter Ann.
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The Sombrero Kid
Title: The Sombrero Kid
Character: Dorothy Russell
Released: July 31, 1942
Type: Movie
A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Sombrero Kid featured the diminutive Barry as Jerry Holden, the apparent son and heir of veteran lawman Tom Holden (Robert Homans). But when Holden Sr. is killed by one of Banker Martin's (Joel Friedkin) gang of claim jumpers, Jerry learns that his real father was Bart Clanton, a notorious bandit killed by Marshal Holden, who then raised the orphaned boy as his own.
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The Cyclone Kid
Title: The Cyclone Kid
Character: Mary Phillips
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious means. The brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a range war between homesteaders and a crooked cattleman.
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Jesse James, Jr.
Title: Jesse James, Jr.
Character: Joan Perry
Released: March 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small western town, lacking telegraph service. Every time the locals try to set up communications with the Outside World, they are thwarted by an outlaw gang.
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Stagecoach Express
Title: Stagecoach Express
Character: Ellen Bristol
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Ellen has the contract for the South West Stage Line through the panhandle. Her father had the run for years and Haney, who runs the office, worked for him. But Ellen does not know that Haney is in league with Elkins and they want the stage line so they can rob the gold shipments. All they need do is stop the stage and end her contract, but that is not easy with Dave driving for Ellen.
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Arizona Terrors
Title: Arizona Terrors
Character: Lila Adams
Released: January 13, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court validation of a counterfeit land grant, and proceeds to drive out ranchers already settled on the land with high taxes, road tolls and violent tactics. A pair of horse sellers pitch in to help a customer, his daughter, and the other "tenant" ranchers after being roughed up by toll collectors when they refuse to pay the assessed toll.
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A Missouri Outlaw
Title: A Missouri Outlaw
Character: Virginia Randall
Released: November 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning the local merchants and farmers out of their hard-earned dollars. Barry decides to use his bad reputation to his advantage by infiltrating the criminal gang.
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Death Valley Outlaws
Title: Death Valley Outlaws
Character: Carolyn Johnson
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Ambushed by the Vigilantes, a dying friend gets Johnny who was only passing through to take up the fight. To get in with the gang, Johnny poses as an outlaw and then beats them to a gold shipment by robbing the train ahead of them. This gets him invited into the gang. They are all masked and unknown to Johnny, one of them is his brother.
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Ice-Capades
Title: Ice-Capades
Character: Audition Girl
Released: August 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
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Kansas Cyclone
Title: Kansas Cyclone
Character: Martha King
Released: June 24, 1941
Type: Movie
The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western. Barry plays Jim Randall, a lawman assigned to investigate a series of gold shipment robberies. Arriving in the middle of a hold-up, Randall finds himself accused of killing the driver (Yakima Canutt). Wells Fargo agent Cal Chambers (Milton Kibbee) vouches for his innocence, however, claiming him to be a noted geologist. Along with several of the prospectors, Jim devises a plan to prove that Jud Parker (Harry Worth) is using his dummy mine as a cover for stealing ore.
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Desert Bandit
Title: Desert Bandit
Character: Sue Martin
Released: May 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.
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The Gay Vagabond
Title: The Gay Vagabond
Character: Betty Dixon
Released: May 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
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The Apache Kid
Title: The Apache Kid
Character: Barbara Taylor
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, however: Dawson is stealing from the town boss (Leroy Mason) who has ripped off a group of miners. Heroine Lynn Merrick is the daughter of the local judge, so naturally she misunderstands Barry's motives, at least until fadeout time.
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Two Gun Sheriff
Title: Two Gun Sheriff
Character: Ruth Norton
Released: April 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A notorious outlaw is recruited by a cattle buyer, secret boss of a gang of cattle rustlers, to impersonate the town sheriff, who is the outlaw's twin brother; and complications ensue, as the sheriff, now a hostage, is on the eve of his marriage while the outlaw's cantina-dancer girlfriend has followed him to town and is at risk of exposing him.
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Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Title: Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Character: Mary Curtiss (as Marilyn Merrick)
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures. The title character is a confused cowhand played by Fuzzy Knight, while the hero is Steve (Johnny Mack Brown), an undercover detective on the prowl for cattle rustlers.
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Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Title: Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Character: Kitty Browning
Released: August 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Fussy Woman's Daughter (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.