Jacqueline deWit

Jacqueline deWit

Born: September 26, 1912
Died: January 7, 1998
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Jacqueline deWit (September 26, 1912 – January 7, 1998) was an American film and TV character actress from Los Angeles who appeared in over two dozen films, including Spellbound (1945), The Snake Pit, The Damned Don't Cry!, Tea and Sympathy, All That Heaven Allows and Harper. She also appeared in the 1946 Abbott and Costello comedy Little Giant, as Bud Abbott's wife.

Movies for Jacqueline deWit...

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Title: The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Character: Helen Bemis (archive footage)
Released: November 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
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La Classe américaine
Title: La Classe américaine
Character: Handmaid (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1993
Type: Movie
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Mattie
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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Title: The Monkees
Character: Kate
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series
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Harper
Title: Harper
Character: Mrs. Kronberg
Released: February 22, 1966
Type: Movie
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
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Title: Arrest and Trial
Character: Mrs. Flynn
Released: September 15, 1963
Type: TV
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
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Twice-Told Tales
Title: Twice-Told Tales
Character: Hannah Pyncheon, Gerald's Sister
Released: September 1, 1963
Type: Movie
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
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It Happened at the World's Fair
Title: It Happened at the World's Fair
Character: Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1963
Type: Movie
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse.
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Pocketful of Miracles
Title: Pocketful of Miracles
Character: Louise (Governor's Wife) (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
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Title: Surfside 6
Character: Manager
Released: October 6, 1960
Type: TV
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.
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Title: Hawaiian Eye
Character: Agnes
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: TV
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Helen Bemis
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Hi Grandma!
Title: Hi Grandma!
Released: May 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here, the voice is that of the genius's evil-dead grandmother. A woman whose malign influence scarred her own children for life and corrupted the innocence of her grandchildren.
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Tea and Sympathy
Title: Tea and Sympathy
Character: Lilly Sears
Released: September 27, 1956
Type: Movie
At a high school reunion, a young man recalls his boarding school days, when the only person who seemed to sympathize with him was his housemaster's wife.
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Title: State Trooper
Character: Doll
Released: September 25, 1956
Type: TV
State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959.
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Toy Tiger
Title: Toy Tiger
Character: Edna
Released: June 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Meanwhile, Gwen's fatherless son Timmie, at a remote boys' school, is riding for a fall by manufacturing evidence of his "explorer father." By an amazing coincidence, Rick steps off the bus at just the right moment for Timmie to recruit him as "father" without his knowledge. With no intention of collaborating, the befuddled Rick is carried along by the sweep of events. Who can predict the outcome?
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All That Heaven Allows
Title: All That Heaven Allows
Character: Mona Plash
Released: December 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
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Lay That Rifle Down
Title: Lay That Rifle Down
Character: Aunt Sarah Greeb
Released: July 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
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The Shrike
Title: The Shrike
Character: Katharine Meade
Released: June 16, 1955
Type: Movie
Film version of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize play, about a Broadway playwright driven to a nervous breakdown by his shrewish wife.
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Playgirl
Title: Playgirl
Character: Greta Marsh
Released: April 21, 1954
Type: Movie
If you remember Shelley Winters from "The Poseidon Adventure" or "Bloody Mama," you might tend to forget what a knockout she was early in her career. This film will give you the chance to see her as a sexy nightclub singer teaching her just-in-from-the-sticks friend Colleen Miller the ropes in New York City. When Winters finds out that her married boyfriend Barry Sullivan has fallen for Miller, the recriminations...and bullets...start to fly!
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Siri
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Mrs. Potter
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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She's Back on Broadway
Title: She's Back on Broadway
Character: Lisa Kramer
Released: March 14, 1953
Type: Movie
When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Evans put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.
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Carrie
Title: Carrie
Character: Carrie's Sister Minnie
Released: July 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Janice
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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The First Legion
Title: The First Legion
Character: Miss Hamilton
Released: May 4, 1951
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Phyllis
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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On the Isle of Samoa
Title: On the Isle of Samoa
Character: Mrs. Marguerite Leach
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
After committing a robbery, a man is inspired to confess by a lovely native girl he meets on a small island.
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The Great Jewel Robber
Title: The Great Jewel Robber
Character: Mrs. Arthur Vinson
Released: July 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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The Happy Years
Title: The Happy Years
Character: Mrs. Cameron
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
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The Damned Don't Cry
Title: The Damned Don't Cry
Character: Sandra
Released: May 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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Chinatown at Midnight
Title: Chinatown at Midnight
Character: Lisa Marcel (as Jacqueline DeWit)
Released: November 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a lady friend who operates an antique shop gets mixed up in a twisted murder plot.
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It's a Great Feeling
Title: It's a Great Feeling
Character: Trent's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
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The Snake Pit
Title: The Snake Pit
Character: Celia Sommerville
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
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Something in the Wind
Title: Something in the Wind
Character: Fashion Show Saleslady
Released: July 21, 1947
Type: Movie
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
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The Lone Wolf in Mexico
Title: The Lone Wolf in Mexico
Character: Liliane Dumont
Released: January 16, 1947
Type: Movie
In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond smugglers. Along the way, he winds up accused of both robbery and murder.
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Wild Beauty
Title: Wild Beauty
Character: Cissy Cruthers
Released: August 8, 1946
Type: Movie
In this western, a Native American boy and his horse Wild Beauty make friends with a gentle doctor who helps the boy save his beloved steed from the cruel industrialist who has been slaughtering horses and using their hides for making shoes. Read more at http://www.allmovie.com/movie/wild-beauty-v117011#MPOP1dAiWrjP7tqA.99
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Cuban Pete
Title: Cuban Pete
Character: Lindsay
Released: June 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but complications arise when the squeaky-voiced, addle-brained sponsor of the program decides she wants to be the vocalist on the program.
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She Wrote the Book
Title: She Wrote the Book
Character: Millicent Van Cleve
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
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Little Giant
Title: Little Giant
Character: Hazel Temple Morrison
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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Saratoga Trunk
Title: Saratoga Trunk
Character: Guilia Forosini (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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Spellbound
Title: Spellbound
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1945
Type: Movie
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: Kate Douglas
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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That Night with You
Title: That Night with You
Character: Blossom Drake
Released: September 28, 1945
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.
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Men in Her Diary
Title: Men in Her Diary
Character: Marjorie Barnes
Released: September 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Character: Miss Fletcher, Morgan's Secretary
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Swing Out, Sister
Title: Swing Out, Sister
Character: Pat Cameron
Released: May 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz trumpeter, Geoffrey takes a job at a "hot" Broadway nightclub. Here he meets and falls in love with café songstress Donna (Frances Raeburn), who has led her family to believe that she's studying for a classical-music career. Meanwhile, a comedy-relief romance develops between Geoffrey's snooty valet Chumley (Arthur Treacher) and Donna's best pal Pat (Jacqueline De Wit). For those not interested in the plot (what there is of it), Swing Out, Sister includes specialty numbers by organist Selika Pettiford and the Lou Diamond Quintet.
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I'll Remember April
Title: I'll Remember April
Character: Whisper
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
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Fog Island
Title: Fog Island
Character: Emiline Bronson (as Jacqueline DeWit)
Released: February 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former business associates, and he also suspects that one of them killed his wife. He has invited the group to his island, tempting them by hinting about a hidden fortune, and he has installed a number of traps and secret passages in his home. He is aided in his efforts by a former cell-mate who holds a grudge against the same persons. When everyone arrives, the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and the thick fog that covers the island promise a tense and hazardous weekend for everyone.
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Moonlight and Cactus
Title: Moonlight and Cactus
Character: Elsie
Released: September 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.
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Black Magic
Title: Black Magic
Character: Justine Bonner
Released: August 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.
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Dragon Seed
Title: Dragon Seed
Character: Wu Lien's Wife
Released: July 20, 1944
Type: Movie
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
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The Leopard Man
Title: The Leopard Man
Character: Helene (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1943
Type: Movie
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.