Claire James

Claire James

Born: April 23, 1920
Died: January 18, 1985
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Movies for Claire James...

The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Title: The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Character: Dance Hall Hostess
Released: May 11, 1956
Type: Movie
In the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as World War II has begun to intensify. She settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life.
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One Too Many
Title: One Too Many
Character: Nurse
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.
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Jack Armstrong
Title: Jack Armstrong
Character: Princess Alura [Chs. 3-6, 9-11, 15]
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth.
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Vacation Days
Title: Vacation Days
Character: Indian Girl
Released: January 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Miss Hinklefink invites the Teen Agers to stay at her new ranch for the summer. Freddie is mistaken for a famed bank-robber and hijinx ensue.
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Freddie Steps Out
Title: Freddie Steps Out
Character: Jean Troy
Released: June 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A high school student is mistaken for a famous radio singer who goes missing.
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Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
Title: Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
Character: Gwen Arnold
Released: March 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Hop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker, open up a small charter air service. They are hired to fly an inventor, Dr. Tabor, to his secret laboratory, where he is working on a new and powerful energy machine. However, a mysterious villain named The Chief Pilot is determined to have the new energy machine for his own purposes and kidnaps Dr. Tabor.
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Mr. Noisy
Title: Mr. Noisy
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1946
Type: Movie
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
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Road to Utopia
Title: Road to Utopia
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1946
Type: Movie
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
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Peeks at Hollywood
Title: Peeks at Hollywood
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
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Saddle Serenade
Title: Saddle Serenade
Character: Brenda Ames
Released: August 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Doris Rogers, half owner of a dude ranch, as Jimmy Wakely, "Lasses" White and Dusty Smith to help run it. U.S. Marshal Tom Logan, posing as a stage driver, is killed during a mock holdup of new arrivals to the ranch. Brenda Amers and Horatio Pennypacker, eastern jewel thieves, bring their loot to Roy Williams, who owns the other half of the ranch as a blind for his gang which resells stolen jewels. Vaughn, the desk clerk, re-cuts the jewels in a secret room in the ice house. Fearing he will be caught, Brenda refuses Williams her stolen diamonds and hides them in a bar of soap.
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A Thousand and One Nights
Title: A Thousand and One Nights
Character: Girl in Tailor Shop
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.
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Voodoo Man
Title: Voodoo Man
Character: Zombie
Released: February 21, 1944
Type: Movie
A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
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Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: Girl Friend
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
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Beautiful Clothes
Title: Beautiful Clothes
Character: Model
Released: August 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.
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Navy Blues
Title: Navy Blues
Character: Navy Blues Sextet Member
Released: September 13, 1941
Type: Movie
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: Ziegfeld Girl (Uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Cafe Customer
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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The Ghost Breakers
Title: The Ghost Breakers
Character: Las Palmas Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
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Phantom Raiders
Title: Phantom Raiders
Character: Pretty Girl at End
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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Saps at Sea
Title: Saps at Sea
Character: Receptionist at horn factory
Released: April 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
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Road to Singapore
Title: Road to Singapore
Character: Girl at Party (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
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Blondie on a Budget
Title: Blondie on a Budget
Character: Usherette (uncredited)
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: Gladys - Miss Grand Rapids (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Well-Wisher (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.