Vivian Austin

Vivian Austin

Born: February 23, 1920
Died: August 1, 2004
in Hollywood, California, USA
Vivian Austin was an American actress who appeared in a number of films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, although most were B movies. Austin was born Irene Vivian Coe in Hollywood, California, and attended Hollywood High School. She was named Miss Hollywood in 1939.

Austin played a variety of bit parts (as well as extra and stunt work) in movies before being cast as the female romantic lead in The Adventures of Red Ryder. She was signed to a stock contract in 1943 by Universal and as Vivian Austin (for Universal) or Terry Austin (under contract to Eagle-Lion Films) appeared in movies such as Destiny, Trigger Trail, Born To Speed and Philo Vance Returns. Her career was cut short in the late 1940s by kidney failure and resultant blindness.

On August 1, 2004, Austin died from natural causes in a hospital in Los Angeles, California. Because her second husband had served in the United States Army, they are interred at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.

Movies for Vivian Austin...

T-Men
Title: T-Men
Character: Genevieve (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
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Stepchild
Title: Stepchild
Character: Millie Lynne
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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Philo Vance Returns
Title: Philo Vance Returns
Character: Lorena Blendon Simms
Released: April 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
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Philo Vance's Gamble
Title: Philo Vance's Gamble
Character: Laurian March (as Terry Austin)
Released: April 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.
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Born to Speed
Title: Born to Speed
Character: Toni Bradley (as Terry Austin)
Released: January 12, 1947
Type: Movie
The romantic, dangerous and fast-paced world of professional midget auto racing provides the backdrop for this dramatic tale of a young driver who decides to follow in his late father's footsteps and win the big race.
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Men in Her Diary
Title: Men in Her Diary
Character: Linda
Released: September 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
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Honeymoon Ahead
Title: Honeymoon Ahead
Character: Rosita
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.
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She Gets Her Man
Title: She Gets Her Man
Character: Maybelle Clark
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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Night Club Girl
Title: Night Club Girl
Character: Eleanor Kendall
Released: January 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Two show-business wannabees get their big chance to show off their big-time act and talents in a nightclub,and bomb. Othet acts come on---endlessly---and do well, but the kids will be back.
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Destiny
Title: Destiny
Character: Phyllis
Released: December 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone, he finds a safe haven hiding out at a quaint country cottage under the care of a kindly old farmer and his daughter, a Cinderella-like blind woman who seems to be able to communicate with nature. There he is forced by their love to question his misanthropy.
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Trigger Trail
Title: Trigger Trail
Character: Ann Cattlet
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
The tale of Clint Farrell, an aspiring lawyer who must use both his wits and his brawn to save his town from being taken over by a villainous railroad financier.
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Boss of Boomtown
Title: Boss of Boomtown
Character: Dale Starr
Released: May 20, 1944
Type: Movie
Soldiers Steve and Jim are friends but when their enlistment ends, Jim reenlists while Steve doesn't. Instead he takes an assignment to find the local gold rustlers. Robbing the stage and then the bank gets Steve into the gang where he plans a job that will capture the entire gang. But just as he is about to put his plan into action Jim arrives to arrest him.
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Cobra Woman
Title: Cobra Woman
Released: May 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A man (Jon Hall) tracks his kidnapped bride (Maria Montez) to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
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Twilight on the Prairie
Title: Twilight on the Prairie
Character: Sally Barton
Released: April 30, 1944
Type: Movie
In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, the band ends up stranded in Texas and must take a job running a ranch. Musical mayhem ensues: Songs include: "Let's Love Again," "Where the Prairie Meets the Sky," "Don't You Ever Be a Cowboy," "Texas Polka," "No Letter Today," "I Got Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon," "Sip Nip Song," "Salt-Water Cowboy," "The Blues," "Little Brown Jug" and "And Then."
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Moon Over Las Vegas
Title: Moon Over Las Vegas
Character: Grace Towers
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
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Hi, Good Lookin'!
Title: Hi, Good Lookin'!
Character: Phyllis
Released: March 22, 1944
Type: Movie
An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.
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Sing a Jingle
Title: Sing a Jingle
Character: Ann
Released: January 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with Muriel Crane, the boss' daughter, who is at first unaware of the fact that King is the heartthrob of millions (he's gotten the job under an assumed name).
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Moonlight in Vermont
Title: Moonlight in Vermont
Character: Brenda Allenby
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Divorcee
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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Adventures of Red Ryder
Title: Adventures of Red Ryder
Character: Beth Andrews
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
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Men Are Such Fools
Title: Men Are Such Fools
Character: Nancy Sinclair (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.