Astrid Allwyn

Astrid Allwyn

Born: November 27, 1905
Died: March 31, 1978
in South Manchester, Connecticut, USA

Movies for Astrid Allwyn...

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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Hit Parade of 1943
Title: Hit Parade of 1943
Character: Joyce Germaine
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
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No Hands on the Clock
Title: No Hands on the Clock
Character: Gypsy Toland
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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Unexpected Uncle
Title: Unexpected Uncle
Character: Sara Cochran
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
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Cracked Nuts
Title: Cracked Nuts
Character: Ethel Mitchell
Released: July 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
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Puddin' Head
Title: Puddin' Head
Character: Yvonne
Released: June 25, 1941
Type: Movie
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
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Melody for Three
Title: Melody for Three
Character: Gladys McClelland
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's music career--he believes it would be best for the boy to have his parents back together, and sets out to do just that.
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City of Missing Girls
Title: City of Missing Girls
Character: Nora Page
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.
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Meet the Missus
Title: Meet the Missus
Character: Violet Stevens
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
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The Leather Pushers
Title: The Leather Pushers
Character: Pat Danbury
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
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Gangs of Chicago
Title: Gangs of Chicago
Character: Virginia Brandt
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Title: The Lone Wolf Strikes
Character: Binnie Weldon
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Flora McKenzie
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Susan Paine
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Honeymoon in Bali
Title: Honeymoon in Bali
Character: Fortune Teller
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Mrs. Zelma La Claire
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Lois Clarke
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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International Crime
Title: International Crime
Character: Phoebe Lane
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.
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Love Takes Flight
Title: Love Takes Flight
Character: Diane Audre
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
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The Westland Case
Title: The Westland Case
Character: Miss Brentino
Released: October 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
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It Could Happen to You
Title: It Could Happen to You
Character: Angela
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
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Venus Makes Trouble
Title: Venus Makes Trouble
Character: Iris Randall
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.
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Murder Goes to College
Title: Murder Goes to College
Character: Greta Barry
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean’s office.
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Woman-Wise
Title: Woman-Wise
Character: 'Bubbles' Carson
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
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Stowaway
Title: Stowaway
Character: Kay Swift
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family.
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Flying Hostess
Title: Flying Hostess
Character: Phyllis Crawford
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
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Dimples
Title: Dimples
Character: Cleo Marsh
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit.
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Star for a Night
Title: Star for a Night
Character: Josephine Hall
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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Follow the Fleet
Title: Follow the Fleet
Character: Iris Manning
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
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Charlie Chan's Secret
Title: Charlie Chan's Secret
Character: Janice Lowell Gage
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Kate
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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Hands Across the Table
Title: Hands Across the Table
Character: Vivian Snowden
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
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Accent on Youth
Title: Accent on Youth
Character: Genevieve Lang
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
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It's A Small World
Title: It's A Small World
Character: Nancy Naylor
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
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One More Spring
Title: One More Spring
Character: Girl at Auction
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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The White Parade
Title: The White Parade
Character: Gertrude Mack
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.
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Servants' Entrance
Title: Servants' Entrance
Character: Sigrid Hansen
Released: September 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
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Monte Carlo Nights
Title: Monte Carlo Nights
Character: Blondie Roberts
Released: May 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
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Mystery Liner
Title: Mystery Liner
Character: Lila Kane
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
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Beggars in Ermine
Title: Beggars in Ermine
Character: Mrs. Vivian Dawson
Released: February 21, 1934
Type: Movie
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
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All of Me
Title: All of Me
Character: Ray (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
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He Couldn't Take It
Title: He Couldn't Take It
Character: Blonde
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
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Hello, Sister!
Title: Hello, Sister!
Character: Webster's Secretary
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
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The Iron Master
Title: The Iron Master
Character: Flo Lancert
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
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The Girl from Calgary
Title: The Girl from Calgary
Character: Mazie Williams
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
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Hat Check Girl
Title: Hat Check Girl
Character: A Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
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The Night Mayor
Title: The Night Mayor
Character: Patsy
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal rocks his administration, Tracy has his girl friend marry Dillaway, a writer friend, so that the press will leave him alone.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Linda Lee
Released: March 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
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Lady with a Past
Title: Lady with a Past
Character: Lola Goadby
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.