Ann Pennington

Ann Pennington

Born: December 20, 1893
Died: November 4, 1971
in Wilmington, Delaware, USA

Movies for Ann Pennington...

China Girl
Title: China Girl
Character: Entertainer
Released: December 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
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Give This Little Girl a Great Big Hand
Title: Give This Little Girl a Great Big Hand
Released: July 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A Soundie with Ann Pennington.
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Texas Terrors
Title: Texas Terrors
Character: Dancer
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A lawyer by training, Bob Millburne (Don "Red" Barry) believes in relying on the legal system to exact justice. But he can no longer sate his thirst for vengeance, fueled by the death of his parents at the hands of a bloodthirsty mine jumper. Frustrated and fed up, Bob decides it's time to dust off his guns and holsters.
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Tanned Legs
Title: Tanned Legs
Character: Tootie
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
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Night Parade
Title: Night Parade
Character: Ann Pennington
Released: October 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
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Is Everybody Happy?
Title: Is Everybody Happy?
Character: Lena Schmitt
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Dancer - 'Snake Hips' Number
Released: September 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
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Gold Diggers of Broadway
Title: Gold Diggers of Broadway
Character: Ann Collins
Released: August 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
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Night Club
Title: Night Club
Character: Self
Released: March 28, 1929
Type: Movie
"When the Paramount movie people decided to make "Night Club"...they took a lot of stage names, let some of them do their specialties, wound a thin, unpleasant story around the whole, and called it a day." - Kansas City Times, 02/18/1929
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Golden Strain
Title: The Golden Strain
Character: Lucy Sulter
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Lt. Milt Mulford graduates from West Point and is assigned to a cavalry outpost in the West, near an Apache reservation. One day the Apaches, tired of being cheated by a crooked Indian agent, break the reservation and Mulford is sent after them with a patrol. Unfortunately, he cracks under the pressure of his first firefight, and is thrown out of the army. His fiancé, disgusted, ends their engagement. He sets out to prove that he is not a coward and regain his fiancé's love.
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Madame Behave
Title: Madame Behave
Character: Gwen Townley
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.
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Pretty Ladies
Title: Pretty Ladies
Character: Herself
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
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The Lucky Horseshoe
Title: The Lucky Horseshoe
Character: Dancer
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Based on a story by Robert Lord, the film is about a ranch foreman who assumes responsibility for the ranch following the owner's death. He also cares for the owner's daughter who is taken to Europe by an aunt. Two year later the woman returns from Europe with her new wealthy fiancée and plans to hold their wedding at the ranch, which the foreman has turned into a successful tourist destination. The foreman's feelings for the woman have not been diminished by the years, and after learning some damaging information about the fiancée, the foreman must find a way to stop the wedding. (Wiki)
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A Kiss in the Dark
Title: A Kiss in the Dark
Character: Specialty Dancer
Released: April 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Based on a Frederick Lonsdale Broadway play.
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Manhandled
Title: Manhandled
Character: Herself
Released: July 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
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The Antics of Ann
Title: The Antics of Ann
Character: Ann Wharton
Released: November 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Ann Wharton, a rambunctious young student at the prestigious Bredwell Academy, is in trouble after a spoonful of cereal she flung at a classmate hits Mrs. Bredwell in the face. As she is being reprimanded in Mrs. Bredwell's office, a misunderstanding results in a member of the football team arriving at the office with Ann's clothes--she had left them behind when she changed into a football uniform so she could play football with the team--and Mrs. Bredwell writes to Ann's father notifying him that Ann is being expelled. She intercepts the letter, but her troubles are far from over.
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The Rainbow Princess
Title: The Rainbow Princess
Character: Hope
Released: October 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Hope has an act in a traveling circus where she is "the rainbow princess" and performs a Hula dance. The owner of the circus pawns the girl off on Judge Daingerfield as his long-lost granddaughter. Hope goes to live with the judge, and to the horror of his upstanding family, insists on having the circus performers over as her guests. But the whole ruse, unbeknownst to her, is so that the circus owner's sons can rob the judge.
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Susie Snowflake
Title: Susie Snowflake
Character: Susie
Released: June 25, 1916
Type: Movie
When a young girl who has grown up as a music hall entertainer is brought to live in a stodgy New England town, the quiet town life is changed forever.