Elyse Knox

Elyse Knox

Born: December 14, 1917
Died: February 16, 2012
in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Movies for Elyse Knox...

I Was a Burlesque Queen
Title: I Was a Burlesque Queen
Character: Linda Prentiss
Released: July 13, 1953
Type: Movie
1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls.
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There's a Girl in My Heart
Title: There's a Girl in My Heart
Character: Claire Adamson
Released: December 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
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Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Title: Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Character: Anne Howe
Released: August 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
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Forgotten Women
Title: Forgotten Women
Character: Kate Allison
Released: July 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar. Most of what passes for action is a couple of car wrecks, understandable considering the amount of sauce consumed in Harry's bar.
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Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Title: Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Character: Anne Howe
Released: September 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Title: I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Character: Ann Quinn
Released: May 23, 1948
Type: Movie
An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Title: Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Character: Anne Howe
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
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Linda, Be Good
Title: Linda, Be Good
Character: Linda Prentiss
Released: November 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
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Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Title: Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Character: Anne Howe
Released: September 20, 1947
Type: Movie
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out an opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responsible and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him by a gang of gamblers, who made a rich haul betting on Palooka. Joe, Knobby and the police unite to run down the gamblers, but not before Joe also is nearly murdered by the same means...a poisoned mouthpiece. Elyse Knox is along as Joe's sweetheart Anne Howe, although Anne and Joe had long been married in the comic strip.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Ruth Frazer
Released: September 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
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Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Title: Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Character: Betty Allen
Released: November 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Title: Gentleman Joe Palooka
Character: Anne Howe
Released: October 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
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Joe Palooka, Champ
Title: Joe Palooka, Champ
Character: Anne Howe
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
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Army Wives
Title: Army Wives
Character: Jerry Van Dyke
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
When Jerry Van Dyke, a young debutante, decides to marry Barney, an Army corporal, whom she met at a USO dance, her family objects and consequently, the couple are unable to obtain a marriage license because Jerry doesn't come of age for four days.
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A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Title: A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Character: Marian
Released: October 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Henny Brown, talent scout for the Margaret Ames Film Agency in Hollywood, mistakes Broadway show understudies Judy and Marian, for stars Betty and Eileen, and signs them up for movies. Margaret, furious with Henny for the blunder, fires him---but only temporarily. Another agent, Marty Allen, once married to and still in love with Margaret, signs Betty and Eileen. Henny arrives with Judy and Marian, and the nightclub manager asks Henny to emcee the show. Though he is not sure himself what they can do, Henny introduces the girls and they make a hit in a dramatic sketch. Big-time movie producer R. J. signs them to a film contract. Judy joins the WAVES, Marian the WACS and Marty the Marines and all have two weeks before induction, and that is more than long enough to shoot a Monogram musical-within-a-Monogram musical and have a few days to spare.
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Moonlight and Cactus
Title: Moonlight and Cactus
Character: Louise Ferguson
Released: September 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.
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Hi'ya, Sailor
Title: Hi'ya, Sailor
Character: Pat Rogers
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written and which he thinks will be published for a fee of $200. In a taxicab driven by Pat Rogers, they search for the publisher's office but finally realize they have been swindled. Plus, they now owe Pat a large taxi-bill.
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So's Your Uncle
Title: So's Your Uncle
Character: Patricia Williams
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
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Hit the Ice
Title: Hit the Ice
Character: Nurse Peggy Osborne
Released: June 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.
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Mister Big
Title: Mister Big
Character: Alice Taswell
Released: May 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
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Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Title: Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Character: Mercedes Colby
Released: April 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Suzanne
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Arabian Nights
Title: Arabian Nights
Character: Slave Girl (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Isobel Evans
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Top Sergeant
Title: Top Sergeant
Character: Helen Gray
Released: June 14, 1942
Type: Movie
An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.
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Hay Foot
Title: Hay Foot
Character: Betty Barkley
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gun shy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Barbara Snodgrass
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
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All-American Co-Ed
Title: All-American Co-Ed
Character: Co-ed
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
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Tanks a Million
Title: Tanks a Million
Character: Jeannie
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Title: Sheriff of Tombstone
Character: Mary Carson
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
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Footlight Fever
Title: Footlight Fever
Character: Eileen Drake
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time they try to con a millionairess into funding their latest show by posing as old friends of her lost love.
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Youth Will Be Served
Title: Youth Will Be Served
Character: Pamela
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
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The Girl from Avenue A
Title: The Girl from Avenue A
Character: Angela
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
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Girl in 313
Title: Girl in 313
Character: Judith Wilson
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: Marjorie
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.