Brenda Joyce

Brenda Joyce

Born: February 25, 1917
Died: July 4, 2009
in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, USA
Brenda Joyce (born Betty Graftina Leabo, February 25, 1917 – July 4, 2009) was an American film actress.

Movies for Brenda Joyce...

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Title: Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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Tarzan's Magic Fountain
Title: Tarzan's Magic Fountain
Character: Jane
Released: February 5, 1949
Type: Movie
An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.
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10,000 Kids and a Cop
Title: 10,000 Kids and a Cop
Character: Narrator
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who used to give him trouble now engaged in sports and activities, furnished them gratis, under self-supervision. Abbott and Costello furnish a couple of bits to liven it up some.
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
Title: Tarzan and the Mermaids
Character: Jane
Released: May 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
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Stepchild
Title: Stepchild
Character: Dale Bullock
Released: June 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Although Dale and Ken Bullock should be a happily married couple, their marriage is on the verge of a break-up, because Dale refuses to give up her well-paying job in order to devote more time to Ken and their two children Jimmy, age 9, and Tommy, age 6. They sue for divorce and the Judge rules that the children be placed in the custody of their father. Dale realizes what she has lost but she is too proud to say anything to Ken, whom she still loves. Ken, shopping for the perfect stay-at-home wife to take care of his children, falls for the charms of his secretary, Millie Lynch. Not quite.
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Tarzan and the Huntress
Title: Tarzan and the Huntress
Character: Jane
Released: April 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.
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Danger Woman
Title: Danger Woman
Character: June Spenser
Released: July 12, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Title: The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Character: Jean Kingsley
Released: March 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
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Little Giant
Title: Little Giant
Character: Miss Ruby Burke
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Title: Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Character: Jane
Released: February 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
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Pillow of Death
Title: Pillow of Death
Character: Donna Kincaid
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
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The Enchanted Forest
Title: The Enchanted Forest
Character: Anne
Released: December 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Pastoral fantasy about a hermit who prefers the serene company of the woods and its denizens to the world outside.
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Strange Confession
Title: Strange Confession
Character: Mary Carter
Released: October 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Lorna Gray
Released: June 8, 1945
Type: Movie
A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.
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Tarzan and the Amazons
Title: Tarzan and the Amazons
Character: Jane
Released: April 29, 1945
Type: Movie
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
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Thumbs Up
Title: Thumbs Up
Character: Louise Latimer
Released: July 5, 1943
Type: Movie
In this wartime musical, a feisty singer working in a London dive swears that she will become a star. She gets a job in an airplane plant when she learns that her fiance, a producer, and his partner are looking for new talent at the war factories. While working there, the woman meets a handsome RAF officer and falls in love. This causes some trouble.
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Show-Business at War
Title: Show-Business at War
Character: Self
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
Title: Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
Character: Maris Hanover
Released: July 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.
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The Postman Didn't Ring
Title: The Postman Didn't Ring
Character: Julie Martin
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
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Whispering Ghosts
Title: Whispering Ghosts
Character: Betty Woods
Released: May 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.
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Marry the Boss's Daughter
Title: Marry the Boss's Daughter
Character: Fredericka Barrett
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
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Private Nurse
Title: Private Nurse
Character: Mary Malloy
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Title: Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Character: Self
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-"Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through. Production Number 3851.
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Penny Cooper
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Maryland
Title: Maryland
Character: Linda
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: Harriet Livingston
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: Simpson Daniels
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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The Rains Came
Title: The Rains Came
Character: Fern Simon
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.