Evelyn Venable

Evelyn Venable

Born: October 18, 1913
Died: November 15, 1993
in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Evelyn Venable (October 18, 1913 – November 15, 1993) was an American actress. In addition to starring in several films in the 1930s and 1940s, she is notable as the voice and model for the Blue Fairy in the Walt Disney's Pinocchio.

For her work in motion pictures, Venable has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street.

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Movies for Evelyn Venable...

The 10 from Texas
Title: The 10 from Texas
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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He Hired the Boss
Title: He Hired the Boss
Character: Emily Conway
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Emily Lawrence
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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Pinocchio
Title: Pinocchio
Character: The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
When loving Geppetto creates a wooden puppet, his wish is granted when it comes to life as a little wooden boy named Pinocchio. With his faithful friend and conscience Jiminy Cricket by his side, Pinocchio, embarks on fantastic adventures that his bravery, loyalty and honesty until triumphs in his triumphs in his quest for his heart's desire: to become a real boy.
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Heritage of the Desert
Title: Heritage of the Desert
Character: Miriam Naab
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
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The Frontiersmen
Title: The Frontiersmen
Character: June Lake
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.
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The Headleys at Home
Title: The Headleys at Home
Character: Pamela Headley
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a renowned financier, who is new in town, to their house for dinner. Her husband doesn't know the man, and is too intimidated to ask him; instead, he hires an actor to play him.
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Female Fugitive
Title: Female Fugitive
Character: Peggy Mallory, aka Ann Williams
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Title: Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Character: Pauline Ward
Released: February 21, 1938
Type: Movie
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
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My Old Kentucky Home
Title: My Old Kentucky Home
Character: Lisbeth Calvert
Released: February 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
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Racketeers in Exile
Title: Racketeers in Exile
Character: Myrtle Thornton
Released: March 30, 1937
Type: Movie
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.
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Happy Go Lucky
Title: Happy Go Lucky
Character: Mary Gorham
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
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North of Nome
Title: North of Nome
Character: Camilla Bridle
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
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Star for a Night
Title: Star for a Night
Character: Anna Lind
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
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Harmony Lane
Title: Harmony Lane
Character: Susan Pentland
Released: October 22, 1935
Type: Movie
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
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Streamline Express
Title: Streamline Express
Character: Patricia Wallace
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
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Alice Adams
Title: Alice Adams
Character: Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
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Vagabond Lady
Title: Vagabond Lady
Character: Miss Josephine 'Jo' Spiggins
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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The Little Colonel
Title: The Little Colonel
Character: Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
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The County Chairman
Title: The County Chairman
Character: Lucy Rigby
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a Wyoming county, has to decide to do what's right and lose the election, or what's wrong and win it.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Lucy Olcott
Released: October 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
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Double Door
Title: Double Door
Character: Anne Darrow
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
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Death Takes a Holiday
Title: Death Takes a Holiday
Character: Grazia
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
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David Harum
Title: David Harum
Character: Ann Madison
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
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Cradle Song
Title: Cradle Song
Character: Teresa
Released: November 19, 1933
Type: Movie
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?