Mildred Boyd

Mildred Boyd

Born: January 1, 1909
Died: October 22, 1999

Movies for Mildred Boyd...

The Jackie Robinson Story
Title: The Jackie Robinson Story
Character: Roommate of Rae (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
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Pinky
Title: Pinky
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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Out of the Past
Title: Out of the Past
Character: Woman at Harlem Club (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
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The Red Dragon
Title: The Red Dragon
Character: Josephine
Released: August 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
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Phantom Lady
Title: Phantom Lady
Character: Maid to Aurora Miranda (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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Irene
Title: Irene
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
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Double Deal
Title: Double Deal
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry store and turns the loot over to gang-boss Murray Howard. Later, Markey robs the safe, steals the jewelry, and, in order to get rid of his rival for Nita, frames the robbery on McCoy. The latter's big-brother thinks otherwise and, with Nita's help, sets out to prove it.
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Way Down South
Title: Way Down South
Character: Dancing Slave
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
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Gang Smashers
Title: Gang Smashers
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
An undercover police woman poses as a nighclub entertainer to catch the main man behind the racketeers going on around Harlem. Meanwhile two men are falling for her.
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Vogues of 1938
Title: Vogues of 1938
Character: Dancer in 'Turn On That Red Hot Heat - Burn Your Blues Away'
Released: August 18, 1937
Type: Movie
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
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New Faces of 1937
Title: New Faces of 1937
Character: Peckin' Maid
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
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The Singing Kid
Title: The Singing Kid
Character: Singer (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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Strike Me Pink
Title: Strike Me Pink
Character: Dancer / Singer in 'First You Have Me High (Then You Have Me Low)' (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Title: Merrily We Go to Hell
Character: June (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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Riley the Cop
Title: Riley the Cop
Character: Caroline
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.