Jinx Falkenburg

Jinx Falkenburg

Born: January 21, 1919
Died: August 27, 2003
in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Movies for Jinx Falkenburg...

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Title: Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Character: Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Released: September 16, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Jinx, an American journalist and friend of the future princess, accompanied her on her journey to the wedding and covered the sensational event.
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Knife in the Dark
Title: Knife in the Dark
Character: Herself
Released: December 7, 1954
Type: Movie
A tormented convict must take a stand against the violent inmate who murdered his best friend.
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Title: Your Show of Shows
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: TV
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Talk About a Lady
Title: Talk About a Lady
Character: Janie Clark
Released: March 28, 1946
Type: Movie
A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, manages to restore the optimism of a jaded and disillusioned nightclub owner. Eventually, she marries the manager of one of the man's nightclubs.
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Meet Me on Broadway
Title: Meet Me on Broadway
Character: Maxine Whittaker
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.
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The Gay Senorita
Title: The Gay Senorita
Character: Elena Sandoval
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Romance with a lovely senorita convinces a contractor to abandon his plans to take over a Mexican housing district.
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Tahiti Nights
Title: Tahiti Nights
Character: Luana
Released: December 28, 1944
Type: Movie
Islanders make arrangements for an American bandleader to marry a princess.
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Cover Girl
Title: Cover Girl
Character: Herself
Released: March 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
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Nine Girls
Title: Nine Girls
Character: Jane Peters
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
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Two Señoritas from Chicago
Title: Two Señoritas from Chicago
Character: Gloria
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria pretend to be a pair of Portuguese musical comedy stars, thereby winning parts in the new production. The fun begins when the play's original authors sell the same manuscript to a rival producer.
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She Has What It Takes
Title: She Has What It Takes
Character: Fay Weston
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.
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Laugh Your Blues Away
Title: Laugh Your Blues Away
Character: Pam Crawford/Olga
Released: November 12, 1942
Type: Movie
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
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Lucky Legs
Title: Lucky Legs
Character: Gloria Carroll
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Title: Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
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Sing for Your Supper
Title: Sing for Your Supper
Character: Evelyn Palmer
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.
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Two Latins from Manhattan
Title: Two Latins from Manhattan
Character: Jinx Terry
Released: October 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Title: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Character: Sue Dolan
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
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Song of the Buckaroo
Title: Song of the Buckaroo
Character: Evelyn Bayliss
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
An outlaw on the run assumes the identity of a dead man. When in his new identity he finds himself elected the mayor of a small town, he decides to go straight.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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El carnaval del diablo
Title: El carnaval del diablo
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Manicurist (Uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Strike Me Pink
Title: Strike Me Pink
Character: Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
Character: Herself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Seeing Hollywood, intimate glimpses of your favorite stars, at home, at work, and at play.