Marjorie Stapp

Marjorie Stapp

Born: September 17, 1921
Died: June 2, 2014
in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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Marjorie Stapp (September 17, 1921 – June 2, 2014), was an American actress who was mainly in low-budget pictures.

Stapp began her film career when she signed a contract with the film studio 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her first screen appearance was in The Kid from Brooklyn, a film starring Danny Kaye. This was followed by another minor appearance in Linda Be Good in 1947. Eventually, she landed a leading role in the Western movie The Blazing Trail alongside Charles Starrett.

Throughout the 1950s until the 1990s, she appeared in both films and television, including Cheyenne, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Dragnet, Elmer Gantry, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, 77 Sunset Strip, The Brady Bunch, Quantum Leap and Columbo. Stapp retired in 1991.

Movies for Marjorie Stapp...

Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Betty Felcher
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Call from Space
Title: Call from Space
Character: Future Woman
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A movie director and his wanna-be actor/eccentric inventor nephew are filming a low-budget sci-fi movie. Things get interesting when the nephews' bizarro invention starts bringing visitors from other times, including Napoleon, Archimedes, and people from the future and cavemen from the past. Just when they are filming what they are convinced will be one of the greatest movies ever, the same machine sends an alien visitor to their set. Also includes a last-minute cameo from James Coburn, as the infuriated head of the studio.
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The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick
Title: The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick
Character: Clara
Released: August 30, 1988
Type: Movie
Kathy, a simple grocery clerk, finds her way into her local high society and the life of a wealthy suitor who thinks she's a stockbroker.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Woman #2
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Title: The Brady Bunch
Character: Mrs. Engstrom
Released: September 26, 1969
Type: TV
When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their six children, a dog named Tiger, and quirky housekeeper Alice.
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A Gathering of Eagles
Title: A Gathering of Eagles
Released: June 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
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Battle at Bloody Beach
Title: Battle at Bloody Beach
Character: Caroline "Carrie" Pelham
Released: June 20, 1961
Type: Movie
This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines. His sole motive is not politics nor bravery, but to find his bride from whom he was separated during the Japanese invasion two years before
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Title: Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Character: Ruthie (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
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The Young Captives
Title: The Young Captives
Character: Murdered Blonde
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Two high-school teenagers on their way to Mexico to get married cross paths with a homicidal fugitive.
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Suicide Battalion
Title: Suicide Battalion
Character: Beverly
Released: February 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".
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Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
Title: Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
Character: Woman Getting Dressed
Released: June 28, 1957
Type: Movie
A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.
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The Monster That Challenged the World
Title: The Monster That Challenged the World
Character: Connie Blake
Released: June 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
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Kronos
Title: Kronos
Character: Nurse
Released: March 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
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Gun for a Coward
Title: Gun for a Coward
Character: Rose
Released: December 30, 1956
Type: Movie
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.
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The Werewolf
Title: The Werewolf
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
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Indestructible Man
Title: Indestructible Man
Character: Jimmy's Girl
Released: March 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.
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Illegal
Title: Illegal
Character: Night Orderly (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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5 Against the House
Title: 5 Against the House
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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The Far Country
Title: The Far Country
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1954
Type: Movie
In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef...and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness...until it finally strikes home.
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A Blueprint for Murder
Title: A Blueprint for Murder
Character: Nurse (Uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
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Port Sinister
Title: Port Sinister
Character: Technician
Released: April 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.
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Problem Girls
Title: Problem Girls
Character: Bella
Released: April 7, 1953
Type: Movie
A medical student learns about a scheme to drug a girl and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fortune.
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The Blue Gardenia
Title: The Blue Gardenia
Character: Policewoman (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
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Sword of Venus
Title: Sword of Venus
Character: Lillie, Duchess De Villefort
Released: February 20, 1953
Type: Movie
An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.
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The Steel Trap
Title: The Steel Trap
Character: Travel Agent
Released: November 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
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Without Honor
Title: Without Honor
Character: Neighbor's Wife (as Margie Stapp)
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Jane, a housewife, is confronted during her daily chores by Dennis, her married lover with whom she has had a long affair. Dennis tells Jane that he has to break off their relationship. She threatens suicide, but when she picks up a shish kabob skewer, the two struggle and Dennis is stabbed in the chest and collapses. Jane hides the body in the house. Before she can leave, her brother-in-law arrives and tells her that he knows about the affair and that he has invited her husband, her lover, and his wife to her house that evening so that he can tell them about the affair.
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The Blazing Trail
Title: The Blazing Trail
Character: Janet Masters
Released: June 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended his life. When the will is read, it leaves the bulk of the property to Kirk, the gambling son of Mike. This upsets Sam, the hard working son, but not gambler Full House who always beats Kirk at cards. But even the Sheriff is suspicious of the will, but he needs proof and the Durango Kid will find the proof.
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Rimfire
Title: Rimfire
Character: Mary (Saloon Girl)
Released: March 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.