Carol Adams

Carol Adams

Born: March 15, 1918
Died: April 9, 2012
in Los Angeles, California, USA
From Wikipedia

Carol Adams (March 15, 1918 - April 9, 2012), was an American actress and dancer whose career began as a child in 1923. She appeared in episodes of the film serials Our Gang and Mickey McGuire and at age 18 signed a contract with the film studio 20th Century Fox. Two years later, she was under contract with Paramount Pictures and subsequently Republic Pictures. Her obituary in Variety said that she "appeared in some 50 features." Regarded as one of the foremost tap dance stars in the beginning of the 1940s, Carol Adams was in many Soundies.

Movies for Carol Adams...

Blondie Goes to College
Title: Blondie Goes to College
Character: Collegian
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Nurse
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Linda Barrett
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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Ice-Capades
Title: Ice-Capades
Character: Helen
Released: August 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
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The Gay Vagabond
Title: The Gay Vagabond
Character: Lucille
Released: May 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
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Ridin' on a Rainbow
Title: Ridin' on a Rainbow
Character: Sally Bartlett
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Showgirl
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Behind the News
Title: Behind the News
Character: Radio Station Mail Clerk
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
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Dancing on a Dime
Title: Dancing on a Dime
Character: Polly Adams
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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The House Across the Bay
Title: The House Across the Bay
Character: Chorus Girl
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Title: Broadway Melody of 1940
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Villager
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Title: Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Girl
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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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: Dancer
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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Straight, Place and Show
Title: Straight, Place and Show
Character: Dancer
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Girl
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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Josette
Title: Josette
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Dancer
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
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Love and Hisses
Title: Love and Hisses
Character: Dancer
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Dancer
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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New Faces of 1937
Title: New Faces of 1937
Character: Dancer
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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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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Off to the Races
Title: Off to the Races
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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Champagne Waltz
Title: Champagne Waltz
Character: Dancer
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.