Joan Blondell

Joan Blondell

Born: August 30, 1906
Died: December 25, 1979
in New York City, New York, USA
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress.

After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. She was most active in films during the 1930s, and during this time she co-starred with Glenda Farrell in nine films, in which the duo portrayed gold-diggers. Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951).

Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979), released shortly before her death from leukemia.

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Movies for Joan Blondell...

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Title: Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.
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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Title: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Character: Self
Released: May 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.
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Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Title: Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals.
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Complicated Women
Title: Complicated Women
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Title: Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Title: Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never stayed far from trouble. Then he discovered acting — and the woman who would be with him for most of his meteoric career. He was Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood's highest paid stars — and one of its most difficult, most rebellious and, when he wished, most charming.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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The Woman Inside
Title: The Woman Inside
Character: Aunt Coll
Released: September 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A Vietnam vet decides to undergo a sex change operation in the 1970's.
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The Glove
Title: The Glove
Character: Mrs. Fitzgerald
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: Movie
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel. Rock'em sock'em mayhem ensues.
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The Champ
Title: The Champ
Character: Dolly Kenyon
Released: July 10, 1979
Type: Movie
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
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The Rebels
Title: The Rebels
Character: Mrs. Brumple
Released: May 14, 1979
Type: Movie
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
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Title: Sweepstakes
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: TV
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Battered
Title: Battered
Character: Edna Thompson
Released: September 26, 1978
Type: Movie
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
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Grease
Title: Grease
Character: Vi
Released: July 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
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Opening Night
Title: Opening Night
Character: Sarah Goode
Released: December 22, 1977
Type: Movie
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Ramona Bevans
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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The Baron
Title: The Baron
Character: Mama Lou
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia.
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Death at Love House
Title: Death at Love House
Character: Marcella Geffenhart
Released: September 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the long dead Hollywood goddess. Joel, whose father had a passionate affair with Lorna, becomes obsessed with her. His wife attempts to break the spell which threatens their marriage and their very lives.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Title: Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Character: Landlady
Released: July 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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Title: Starsky & Hutch
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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Title: Switch
Character: Mrs. Lear
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: TV
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Winner Take All
Title: Winner Take All
Character: Beverly Craig
Released: March 3, 1975
Type: Movie
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
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The Dead Don't Die
Title: The Dead Don't Die
Character: Levenia
Released: January 14, 1975
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.
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Title: Police Story
Released: March 20, 1973
Type: TV
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.
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Title: Banyon
Character: Peggy Revere
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: TV
The adventures of 1930's Los Angeles private eye Miles Banyon.
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Title: The Rookies
Released: September 11, 1972
Type: TV
The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
Title: Support Your Local Gunfighter
Character: Jenny
Released: May 26, 1971
Type: Movie
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
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The Phynx
Title: The Phynx
Character: Ruby
Released: March 6, 1970
Type: Movie
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
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Title: McCloud
Released: February 17, 1970
Type: TV
Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.
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Title: Medical Center
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: TV
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
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Big Daddy
Title: Big Daddy
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.
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Title: Here Come the Brides
Released: September 25, 1968
Type: TV
Here Come the Brides is an American comedy Western series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from September 25, 1968 to April 3, 1970. The series was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls, Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s, where the ravages of the American Civil War left towns short of men.
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Title: The Outsider
Released: September 18, 1968
Type: TV
The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man living in an off-beat, always-dangerous world. The series aired for one season on NBC and was a precursor of sorts to The Rockford Files in that it featured a loner private detective who had previously done time in prison for a crime he didn't commit and who never quite fit into a rapidly changing environment.
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Kona Coast
Title: Kona Coast
Character: Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle, who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center. Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family. The determined dad fights to uncover the information that will land the murderer in jail as he avenges the death of his daughter.
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Stay Away, Joe
Title: Stay Away, Joe
Character: Glenda Callahan
Released: March 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will help all the Navajo people. But Joe's friend, Bronc Hoverty, accidentally barbecues the prize bull, while Joe sells the heifers to buy plumbing and other home improvements for his stepmother.
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Waterhole #3
Title: Waterhole #3
Character: Lavinia
Released: October 10, 1967
Type: Movie
After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried. He plans to retrieve it, but others are searching for it too.
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Title: The Guns of Will Sonnett
Character: Miss Lottie
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: TV
The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series
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Winchester '73
Title: Winchester '73
Character: Larouge
Released: March 14, 1967
Type: Movie
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
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The Spy in the Green Hat
Title: The Spy in the Green Hat
Character: Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
Released: February 3, 1967
Type: Movie
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
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Title: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Released: September 13, 1966
Type: TV
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and used the same theme music composed by Jerry Goldsmith, which was rearranged into a slightly different, harder-edged arrangement by Dave Grusin.
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Title: Family Affair
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French, also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy and the 6-year-old twins, Jody and Buffy. The show ran for 138 episodes. Family Affair was created and produced by Don Fedderson, also known for My Three Sons and The Millionaire.
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Title: That Girl
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: TV
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.
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Title: Summer Fun
Released: July 22, 1966
Type: TV
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Ride Beyond Vengeance
Title: Ride Beyond Vengeance
Character: Mrs. Lavender
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Against the wishes of her snobbish aunt, she marries him, later faking a pregnancy to win her aunt's consent. But Jonas tires of living off of his wife's family, and eventually deserts her to become a buffalo hunter. 11 years later, with his self-made fortune, he sets out to return home, only to be set upon by three sadistic marauders, who steal his money and leave him for dead. Rescued by a farmer who nurses him back to health, Jonas becomes consumed by the desire for revenge. As fate would have it, all three men live close to Jonas' former home. Matters quickly get worse when Jonas reunites with his wife, only to discover that she is now engaged to Renne.
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The Cincinnati Kid
Title: The Cincinnati Kid
Character: Lady Fingers
Released: October 15, 1965
Type: Movie
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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Kilroy
Title: Kilroy
Character: Rose Kelsey
Released: March 14, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
Title: The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A promotional short for The Cincinnati Kid (1965) showcasing the card handling skills of magician and one-time gambler Jay Ose who was hired as technical adviser to instruct the actors on the techniques used by professional poker players.
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Title: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Character: Mrs. Fingers Stilletto
Released: September 22, 1964
Type: TV
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
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Advance to the Rear
Title: Advance to the Rear
Character: Easy Jenny
Released: June 10, 1964
Type: Movie
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag group on a classified mission to protect a transport for the U.S. Treasury. Complicating matters is Martha Lou Williams, a Confederate agent posing as a lady of the evening.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character: Mrs. Melvin Freebie
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Florabelle Campbell
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Candy Sturdevant
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Ethel Kronkeit
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: The Greatest Show on Earth
Character: T.T. Hill
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Johnny Slate successfully manages his circus as it moves from town to town.
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Title: Vacation Playhouse
Character: Miss Zilke
Released: July 22, 1963
Type: TV
The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Joan Brenner
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Rosanna Dobie
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Dolly Marlowe
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Angel Baby
Title: Angel Baby
Character: Mollie Hays
Released: May 14, 1961
Type: Movie
A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South - she to save souls and heal the sick, he to make as much money as he possibly can.
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Title: My Three Sons
Character: Harriet Blanchard
Released: September 29, 1960
Type: TV
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character: Helene Terry
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Millicent Brass
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Phyllis Britt
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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A Marriage of Strangers
Title: A Marriage of Strangers
Character: Mrs. Patrick
Released: May 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Jerry and Louise are two shy types who meet and wed through a lonely hearts club. They soon learn that being a married couple is not like the movies or romance novels.
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Desk Set
Title: Desk Set
Character: Peg Costello
Released: August 2, 1957
Type: Movie
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Title: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Character: Violet
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: Movie
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.
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This Could Be the Night
Title: This Could Be the Night
Character: Crystal St. Clair
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
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Lizzie
Title: Lizzie
Character: Aunt Morgan
Released: April 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth.
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The Opposite Sex
Title: The Opposite Sex
Character: Edith Potter
Released: November 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
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Title: Playwrights '56
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Rose Kelsey
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Joan Preston
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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The Blue Veil
Title: The Blue Veil
Character: Annie Rawlins
Released: October 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Calamity Jane
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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For Heaven's Sake
Title: For Heaven's Sake
Character: Daphne Peters
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: May
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
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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Title: Suspense
Character: Clara
Released: January 6, 1949
Type: TV
Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City. It was sponsored by the Auto-Lite corporation, and each episode was introduced by host Rex Marshall, who promoted Auto-Lite spark plugs, car batteries, headlights, and other car parts. Some of the early scripts were adapted from Suspense radio scripts, while others were original for television. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed. Many notable actors appeared on the program, including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Franchot Tone, Robert Emhardt, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and many more. The program was a live television series, but most episodes were recorded on kinescope. However, only about 90 of the 260 episodes survive today.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Ruth Breen
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Christmas Eve
Title: Christmas Eve
Character: Ann Nelson
Released: October 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
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Nightmare Alley
Title: Nightmare Alley
Character: Zeena Krumbein
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with "Mademoiselle Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Title: The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Character: Rosemary Durant
Released: June 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
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Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Helen Melohn
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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Don Juan Quilligan
Title: Don Juan Quilligan
Character: Marjorie Mossrock
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Character: Aunt Sissy
Released: February 28, 1945
Type: Movie
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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Cry 'Havoc'
Title: Cry 'Havoc'
Character: Grace
Released: November 23, 1943
Type: Movie
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.
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Lady for a Night
Title: Lady for a Night
Character: Jenny Blake
Released: January 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Hope Banner
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Model Wife
Title: Model Wife
Character: Joan Keating Chambers
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
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Topper Returns
Title: Topper Returns
Character: Gail Richards
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.
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I Want a Divorce
Title: I Want a Divorce
Character: Geraldine Brokaw
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
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Two Girls on Broadway
Title: Two Girls on Broadway
Character: Molly Mahoney
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
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Breakdowns of 1939
Title: Breakdowns of 1939
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Title: The Amazing Mr. Williams
Character: Maxine Carroll
Released: November 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Jenny Swanson
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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The Kid from Kokomo
Title: The Kid from Kokomo
Character: Doris Harvey
Released: May 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.
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East Side of Heaven
Title: East Side of Heaven
Character: Mary Wilson
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Jane Morgan
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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There's Always a Woman
Title: There's Always a Woman
Character: Sally Reardon
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
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Stand-In
Title: Stand-In
Character: Lester Plum
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
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The Perfect Specimen
Title: The Perfect Specimen
Character: Mona Carter
Released: October 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
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Back in Circulation
Title: Back in Circulation
Character: 'Timmy' Blake
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
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Talent Scout
Title: Talent Scout
Character: Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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The King and the Chorus Girl
Title: The King and the Chorus Girl
Character: Miss Dorothy Ellis
Released: March 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
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Gold Diggers of 1937
Title: Gold Diggers of 1937
Character: Norma Perry
Released: December 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
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Three Men on a Horse
Title: Three Men on a Horse
Character: Mabel
Released: November 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Peggy Revere
Released: September 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Lee Morgan
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Sons o' Guns
Title: Sons o' Guns
Character: Yvonne
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
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Colleen
Title: Colleen
Character: Minnie Hawkins
Released: March 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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One And One Is One
Title: One And One Is One
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances as she tries on various dresses.
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Miss Pacific Fleet
Title: Miss Pacific Fleet
Character: Gloria Fay
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Title: Things You Never See on the Screen
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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We're in the Money
Title: We're in the Money
Character: Ginger Stewart
Released: August 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Alice Hughes
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Traveling Saleslady
Title: Traveling Saleslady
Character: Angela Twitchell
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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Kansas City Princess
Title: Kansas City Princess
Character: Rosie Sturges
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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Dames
Title: Dames
Character: Mabel Anderson
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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He Was Her Man
Title: He Was Her Man
Character: Rose Lawrence
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
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Smarty
Title: Smarty
Character: Vicki
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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And She Learned About Dames
Title: And She Learned About Dames
Character: Herself
Released: March 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour of the Warner Brothers lot with Lyle Talbot. When she gets to the studio, all she wants to do is meet Dick Powell, star of the new Warner Brothers film Dames (1934).
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Hollywood Newsreel
Title: Hollywood Newsreel
Character: Self
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
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I've Got Your Number
Title: I've Got Your Number
Character: Marie Lawson
Released: February 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Nancy Lorraine
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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Havana Widows
Title: Havana Widows
Character: Mae Knight
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Footlight Parade
Title: Footlight Parade
Character: Nan Prescott
Released: October 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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Goodbye Again
Title: Goodbye Again
Character: Anne Rogers
Released: September 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
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Gold Diggers of 1933
Title: Gold Diggers of 1933
Character: Carol King
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
During the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed showgirls find hope when a wealthy songwriter invests in a musical starring them, against the wishes of his high society brother. Thus start Carol, Trixie and Polly's schemes to bilk his money and keep the show going.
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Blondie Johnson
Title: Blondie Johnson
Character: Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
Released: February 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
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Broadway Bad
Title: Broadway Bad
Character: Tony Landers
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
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Just Around the Corner
Title: Just Around the Corner
Character: Mrs. Graham
Released: January 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.
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Lawyer Man
Title: Lawyer Man
Character: Olga Michaels
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
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Central Park
Title: Central Park
Character: Dot
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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Three on a Match
Title: Three on a Match
Character: Mary Keaton
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Vida Fleet
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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Make Me a Star
Title: Make Me a Star
Character: 'Flips' Montague
Released: July 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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Miss Pinkerton
Title: Miss Pinkerton
Character: Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Title: The Famous Ferguson Case
Character: Maizie Dickson
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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The Crowd Roars
Title: The Crowd Roars
Character: Anne Scott
Released: April 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Title: The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Character: Schatzi Sutro
Released: February 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Ruth Collins
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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Blonde Crazy
Title: Blonde Crazy
Character: Anne Roberts
Released: September 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Character: Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots.
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The Reckless Hour
Title: The Reckless Hour
Character: Allen Crane
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
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Night Nurse
Title: Night Nurse
Character: Maloney
Released: July 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
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Big Business Girl
Title: Big Business Girl
Character: Pearl
Released: June 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
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My Past
Title: My Past
Character: Marian Moore
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
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The Public Enemy
Title: The Public Enemy
Character: Mamie
Released: April 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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God's Gift to Women
Title: God's Gift to Women
Character: Fifi
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
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Illicit
Title: Illicit
Character: Helen 'Duckie' Childers
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
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Millie
Title: Millie
Character: Angie
Released: February 6, 1931
Type: Movie
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
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Other Men's Women
Title: Other Men's Women
Character: Marie
Released: January 17, 1931
Type: Movie
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
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Sinners' Holiday
Title: Sinners' Holiday
Character: Myrtle
Released: October 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
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The Office Wife
Title: The Office Wife
Character: Katharine Murdock
Released: August 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's duties creates a relationship approaching that of his wife. Little does Larry know that sometimes literature mirrors life.
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Title: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
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The Heart Breaker
Title: The Heart Breaker
Released: June 30, 1930
Type: Movie
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The Devil's Parade
Title: The Devil's Parade
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A Musical Revue set in Hades.
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Broadway's Like That
Title: Broadway's Like That
Character: Ruth's Pal
Released: March 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A girl who works in a music store discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her intended husband already has a wife.