Jo Ann Sayers

Jo Ann Sayers

Born: October 22, 1918
Died: November 14, 2011
in Seattle, Washington, USA
Jo Ann Sayers (born Miriam Lucille Lilygren) was an American screen and stage actress. Sayers' film career spanned the years 1938 to 1953, however mainly went inactive after 1940.

Movies for Jo Ann Sayers...

Main Street to Broadway
Title: Main Street to Broadway
Character: Bride in Musical Number (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1953
Type: Movie
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
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The Man with Nine Lives
Title: The Man with Nine Lives
Character: Nurse Judith Blair
Released: April 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
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Light of Western Stars
Title: Light of Western Stars
Character: Madeline Hammond
Released: April 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff.
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Miracle at Lourdes
Title: Miracle at Lourdes
Character: Mary Jones
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Can faith work miracles? You be the judge.
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Drunk Driving
Title: Drunk Driving
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.
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Think First
Title: Think First
Character: Ruth Nolan
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Episode 24 of the Crime Does Not Pay series. Margie Smith (Laraine Day) works as a waitress at a drive in restaurant. She likes to date and look nice but on her salary, she can't keep up with everyone else. However, a friend shows her that stealing is easy, cool and lets you dress like success. At first, it works out just fine, but remember--this is a Crime Does Not Pay film and you KNOW she'll soon get caught and prosecuted.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Debutante (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Unseen Guardians
Title: Unseen Guardians
Character: Leading Actress
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The "unseen guardians" of the title are the Postal Inspection Service, which investigates mail order racketeering; the Underwriters' Laboratories, which are shown testing electrical equipment, fire extinguishers, and large floor safes; and those who run orphanages, who assure that the children in their care are placed in proper adoptive homes.
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Help Wanted
Title: Help Wanted
Character: Mary Daniels
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: Helen Morris - the Thief
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Christina Torrent
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Susan
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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Honolulu
Title: Honolulu
Character: Nurse
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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Four Girls in White
Title: Four Girls in White
Character: Sleepy Nurse
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power
Title: Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
This short begins at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). The electricity generated here by the Colorado River is sent to Hollywood, where movie studios need it to make movies. After a tour of the MGM studios' power plants, we see short advertisements for upcoming MGM releases.
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Young Dr. Kildare
Title: Young Dr. Kildare
Character: Barbara Chanler
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.