Lona Andre

Lona Andre

Born: March 2, 1915
Died: September 18, 1992
in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
From Wikipedia

Lona Andre (March 2, 1915 – September 18, 1992) was an American film actress. Born Launa Anderson in Nashville, Tennessee, Andre attracted attention with her first films in Hollywood and was named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1932. After winning the Paramount Panther Woman Contest, she was signed to a movie contract by Paramount Pictures. When Paramount did not renew her option, Andre worked as a freelance artist. During the 1930s she appeared frequently in films, usually as the lead in "B" pictures, and by the end of the decade had starred in more than fifty films. In 1934 Andre was part of the cast of School For Girls along with Toby Wing, Lois Wilson, Sidney Fox, and Dorothy Lee and in 1936 appeared alongside Laurel and Hardy in their feature film Our Relations. In June 1935, Andre eloped to Santa Barbara, California to marry MGM actor Edward Norris. Andre filed for an annulment action four days after her marriage in Tijuana, Mexico. She was later married to salesman, James T. Bolling, and was divorced from him in March 1947. In 1938 Andre set a world's golfing record for women by shooting 156 holes of golf in 11 hours and 56 minutes on the Lake Norconian, California course. Her best round was 91 for 18 holes and her worst was 115. Her acting career was greatly diminished during the 1940s, and she made her last film appearance in 1949 in Two Knights From Brooklyn. After her film career ended she became a successful businesswoman and never returned to acting. She was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Movies for Lona Andre...

Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Title: Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Character: (archive footage)
Released: April 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
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The Case Of The Baby-Sitter
Title: The Case Of The Baby-Sitter
Character: Maxine, gang moll
Released: July 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is their stolen loot. Neal eventually catches on when he realizes that this is the quietest child on earth. Running a scant 41 minutes, Case of the Baby Sitter was designed to be shown in tandem with another Screen Guild Productions "briefie," The Hat Box Mystery: the films were shot back to back, with Tom Neal and Pamela Blake starring in both.
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Confessions of a Vice Baron
Title: Confessions of a Vice Baron
Character: Florence Davis (edited from 'Race Suicide') (archive footage)
Released: June 30, 1943
Type: Movie
On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.
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Confessions of a Vice Baron
Title: Confessions of a Vice Baron
Character: Florence Davis (edited from 'Race Suicide') (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1943
Type: Movie
On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.
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Pardon My Sarong
Title: Pardon My Sarong
Character: Girl on Bus with Tommy (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
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Ghost Valley Raiders
Title: Ghost Valley Raiders
Character: Linda Marley
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raiders. A federal marshal, Barry is assigned to put an end to the activities of a stagecoach-robbery gang. That's why he spends most of the film pretending to be an outlaw himself. Stunt specialist Yakima Canutt plays a secondary villain, and also doubles for Barry in the dicier action scenes.
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Sunset Murder Case
Title: Sunset Murder Case
Character: Nita Madera
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
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Race Suicide
Title: Race Suicide
Character: Florence Davis
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A District Attorney decides to go after a doctor who is targeting young women and talking them into having illegal abortions.
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Trailing Trouble
Title: Trailing Trouble
Character: Patty Blair
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When mild mannered Friendly Fields is sent to the Blair ranch to work, he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw Blackie Burke. When a drought develops and the ranchers look for new grazing land, he plays the part and forces them to give he best plot to his boss Miss Blair. But no sooner than his mother arrives to expose the hoax, the real Blackie also arrives.
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Slaves in Bondage
Title: Slaves in Bondage
Character: Dona Lee
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.
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The Great Hospital Mystery
Title: The Great Hospital Mystery
Character: Miss White
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
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High Hat
Title: High Hat
Character: Dixie Durkin
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.
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Pilot X
Title: Pilot X
Character: Helen Gage
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
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Our Relations
Title: Our Relations
Character: Lily
Released: September 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
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Custer's Last Stand
Title: Custer's Last Stand
Character: Belle Mead
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The feature length version of the serial by the same name. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it. General George Armstrong Custer and army scout Kid Cardigan attempt to stop the ensuing war over the arrow, but fail in their efforts, which becomes the historic Custer's Last Stand.
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Lucky Terror
Title: Lucky Terror
Character: Ann Thornton / Madame Fatima
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner.
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Three on a Limb
Title: Three on a Limb
Character: Molly
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé. When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the girl takes pity on the martyred Elmer and they drive off together. She informs him that she is also fending off another suitor, Oscar; and to make matters worse, her father is backing the cop while her mother promotes Oscar. Eventually all three men wind up competing for her hand at a chaotic wedding ceremony that ends with Elmer winning his beloved.
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Custer's Last Stand
Title: Custer's Last Stand
Character: Belle Meade
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
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The Timid Young Man
Title: The Timid Young Man
Character: Helen
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears after the two have set up camp. He starts putting the moves on the woman, but when Milton's ex-girlfriend shows up, she gets into a fight with the interloper and gives Milton and his new pal the chance to slip away.
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Happiness C.O.D.
Title: Happiness C.O.D.
Character: Beatrice Manning
Released: October 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.
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Skybound
Title: Skybound
Character: Teddy Blane
Released: September 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate Faber, are trying to outwit Kent. The smugglers hope that they can influence Kent's younger brother Doug to help them, and they employ an attractive singer in an attempt to win Doug over.
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Gobs of Trouble
Title: Gobs of Trouble
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
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Border Brigands
Title: Border Brigands
Character: Diane
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
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One Run Elmer
Title: One Run Elmer
Character: The Girl
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against the other and, because she is a baseball fan, both Elmer and Jim try to show each other up in the big local baseball game.
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Lost in the Stratosphere
Title: Lost in the Stratosphere
Character: Sophie
Released: November 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
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By Your Leave
Title: By Your Leave
Character: Florence Purcell
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: Maid to Sonia (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Title: Two Heads on a Pillow
Character: Pamela Devonshire
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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The Old-Fashioned Way
Title: The Old-Fashioned Way
Character: Girl in Audience (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
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Woman Unafraid
Title: Woman Unafraid
Character: Peggy
Released: March 27, 1934
Type: Movie
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
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Come On, Marines!
Title: Come On, Marines!
Character: Shirley
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. It comes as a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18-25 year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.
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School for Girls
Title: School for Girls
Character: Peggy
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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Take a Chance
Title: Take a Chance
Character: Miss Miami Beach
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.
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Too Much Harmony
Title: Too Much Harmony
Character: Show Girl
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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College Humor
Title: College Humor
Character: Ginger
Released: July 5, 1933
Type: Movie
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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International House
Title: International House
Character: Chorus Queen
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
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The Girl in 419
Title: The Girl in 419
Character: Chambermaid
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
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Pick-up
Title: Pick-up
Character: Party Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
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The Woman Accused
Title: The Woman Accused
Character: Cora Matthews
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Glenda is packing to leave, she receives a threatening phone call from her obsessed, former lover Leo. Glenda confronts Leo and tells him that it's over. Leo, a high-powered attorney calls a hit man to have Jeffrey eliminated. Glenda knocks Leo over the head before he can give the hit man a name. Leo is dead. Glenda sneaks back into her apartment, goes off on the cruise with Jeffrey and pretends that all is swell. Leo's partner, Stephen Bessemer, suspects Glenda and follows her to the ship. Bessemer stages a mock trial aboard the ship and cleverly draws a confession from Glenda. Jeffrey, also an attorney, represents Glenda when she is arrested upon arriving on shore. A skeptical district attorney, and the fact that Jeffrey horsewhips the star witness (the hit man), combine to get Glenda completely off the hook.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Dorothy
Released: January 30, 1933
Type: Movie
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.