Joan Valerie

Joan Valerie

Born: July 15, 1911
Died: January 30, 1983
in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA

Movies for Joan Valerie...

Westward the Women
Title: Westward the Women
Character: Flashy Woman (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: Movie
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
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Roaring City
Title: Roaring City
Character: Irma Rand
Released: May 4, 1951
Type: Movie
A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
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A Life of Her Own
Title: A Life of Her Own
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
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Three Daring Daughters
Title: Three Daring Daughters
Character: Hostess (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Around the World
Title: Around the World
Character: Countess Olga
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Government Girl
Title: Government Girl
Character: Miss Jane MacVickers (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Just Off Broadway
Title: Just Off Broadway
Character: Rita Darling
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Title: Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Character: Phyllis Guerney
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
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Rio Rita
Title: Rio Rita
Character: Dotty
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Title: Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Character: Marsha Gordon
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
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Murder Over New York
Title: Murder Over New York
Character: June Preston
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Title: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Character: Lily Latimer
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
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The Great Profile
Title: The Great Profile
Character: Understudy
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
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Pier 13
Title: Pier 13
Character: Helen Kelly
Released: August 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
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Girl in 313
Title: Girl in 313
Character: Francine Edwards
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Lillian Russell's Sister
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Free, Blonde and 21
Title: Free, Blonde and 21
Character: Vickie
Released: March 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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Young as You Feel
Title: Young as You Feel
Character: Bonnie Jones
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Miss Norton
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Day-time Wife
Title: Day-time Wife
Character: Mrs. Dexter
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
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Tail Spin
Title: Tail Spin
Character: Sunny
Released: February 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Lucy Pemberton
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Road Demon
Title: Road Demon
Character: Joan Rogers
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: Anne
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Toni Stewart (replaced by Iva Stewart)
Released: May 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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A Trip to Paris
Title: A Trip to Paris
Character: Marguerite Varloff
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
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Topa Topa
Title: Topa Topa
Character: Margaret Weston
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Tom Turner, a naturalist, comes to the "Topa Topa" district (named for the mountain), and falls in love with widow Margaret Weston...
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The Old Barn Dance
Title: The Old Barn Dance
Character: Sally Dawson
Released: January 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date.
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Sergeant Murphy
Title: Sergeant Murphy
Character: Bess Merrill
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Simpering Girl (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Alcatraz Island
Title: Alcatraz Island
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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It's Love I'm After
Title: It's Love I'm After
Character: Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
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Confession
Title: Confession
Character: Wanda
Released: August 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
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Talent Scout
Title: Talent Scout
Character: Ruth - Secretary
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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Blazing Sixes
Title: Blazing Sixes
Character: Barbara Morgan
Released: June 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Skinner's secretary
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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The Cherokee Strip
Title: The Cherokee Strip
Character: Ruth Valley
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Lady Jane Seymour
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
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Ready, Willing and Able
Title: Ready, Willing and Able
Character: Switchboard Operator
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.