Patricia Ellis

Patricia Ellis

Born: May 20, 1918
Died: March 26, 1970
in Birmingham, Michigan, USA

Movies for Patricia Ellis...

Fugitive at Large
Title: Fugitive at Large
Character: Patricia Farrow
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.
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Back Door to Heaven
Title: Back Door to Heaven
Character: Carol Evans
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
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Block-Heads
Title: Block-Heads
Character: Mrs. 'Toots' Gilbert
Released: August 19, 1938
Type: Movie
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
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Romance on the Run
Title: Romance on the Run
Character: Dale Harrison
Released: May 11, 1938
Type: Movie
A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company.
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The Lady in the Morgue
Title: The Lady in the Morgue
Character: Mrs. Sam Taylor
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
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Paradise for Two
Title: Paradise for Two
Character: Jeannette DuPont
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
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Talent Scout
Title: Talent Scout
Character: Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
Title: Step Lively, Jeeves!
Character: Patricia Westley
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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Rhythm in the Clouds
Title: Rhythm in the Clouds
Character: Judy Walker
Released: June 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
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Venus Makes Trouble
Title: Venus Makes Trouble
Character: Kay Horner
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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Melody for Two
Title: Melody for Two
Character: Gale Starr
Released: May 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
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Sing Me a Love Song
Title: Sing Me a Love Song
Character: Jean Martin
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
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Down the Stretch
Title: Down the Stretch
Character: Patricia Barrington
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
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Love Begins at Twenty
Title: Love Begins at Twenty
Character: Lois Gillingwater
Released: August 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
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Postal Inspector
Title: Postal Inspector
Character: Connie Larrimore
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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Snowed Under
Title: Snowed Under
Character: Pat Quinn
Released: March 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
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Boulder Dam
Title: Boulder Dam
Character: Ann Vangarick
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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Freshman Love
Title: Freshman Love
Character: Joan Simpkins
Released: January 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
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The Case of the Lucky Legs
Title: The Case of the Lucky Legs
Character: Margie Florence Clune
Released: October 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Claire Whitmore
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Velma Tuthill
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Hold 'Em Yale
Title: Hold 'Em Yale
Character: Clarice Van Cleve
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
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A Night at the Ritz
Title: A Night at the Ritz
Character: Marcia
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: March Federie, Richard's Granddaughter
Released: March 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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The Payoff
Title: The Payoff
Character: Connie Travers
Released: January 9, 1935
Type: Movie
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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The St. Louis Kid
Title: The St. Louis Kid
Character: Ann Reid
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
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Big Hearted Herbert
Title: Big Hearted Herbert
Character: Alice Kalness
Released: October 6, 1934
Type: Movie
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
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The Circus Clown
Title: The Circus Clown
Character: Alice Madison
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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Here Comes the Groom
Title: Here Comes the Groom
Character: Patricia Randolph
Released: June 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
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Affairs of a Gentleman
Title: Affairs of a Gentleman
Character: Jean Sinclair
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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Harold Teen
Title: Harold Teen
Character: Mimi Snatcher
Released: April 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
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Hollywood Newsreel
Title: Hollywood Newsreel
Character: Herself
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
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Easy to Love
Title: Easy to Love
Character: Janet
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Claire Honeywell
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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The World Changes
Title: The World Changes
Character: Natalie Clifton Nordholm
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
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The Narrow Corner
Title: The Narrow Corner
Character: Louise Frith
Released: July 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.
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Picture Snatcher
Title: Picture Snatcher
Character: Patricia Mary 'Pat' Nolan
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Elmer, the Great
Title: Elmer, the Great
Character: Nellie Poole
Released: April 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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The King's Vacation
Title: The King's Vacation
Character: Millicent
Released: February 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.
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Lawyer Man
Title: Lawyer Man
Character: Law Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
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Central Park
Title: Central Park
Character: Vivian (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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Three on a Match
Title: Three on a Match
Character: Linda (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.