Polly Ward

Polly Ward

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New Faces
Title: New Faces
Character: Polly Ward
Released: February 19, 1954
Type: Movie
New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.
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Women Aren't Angels
Title: Women Aren't Angels
Character: Frankie Delane
Released: January 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Peggy
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
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St. Martin's Lane
Title: St. Martin's Lane
Character: Frankie
Released: October 18, 1938
Type: Movie
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
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Thank Evans
Title: Thank Evans
Character: Rosie
Released: October 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
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Hold My Hand
Title: Hold My Hand
Character: Paula Pond
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him?
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Feather Your Nest
Title: Feather Your Nest
Character: Mary Taylor
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
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Shipmates o' Mine
Title: Shipmates o' Mine
Released: March 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
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Annie Laurie
Title: Annie Laurie
Character: Annie Laurie
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
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It's a Bet
Title: It's a Bet
Character: Maudie
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Character: The Marchioness
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
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Kentucky Minstrels
Title: Kentucky Minstrels
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
'Old-time minstrel sinks to poverty and rises to fresh stardom.' (British Film Catalogue)
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His Lordship
Title: His Lordship
Character: Leninia
Released: June 2, 1932
Type: Movie
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
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Alf's Button
Title: Alf's Button
Character: Liz
Released: March 24, 1930
Type: Movie
A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
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Harmony Heaven
Title: Harmony Heaven
Character: Billie Breeze
Released: March 21, 1930
Type: Movie
The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.
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This Marriage Business
Title: This Marriage Business
Character: Maid
Released: December 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'Newlywed poses as burglar to scare flighty wife.' (British Film Catalogue)