Phyllis Crane

Phyllis Crane

Born: August 7, 1914
Died: October 12, 1982
in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
From Wikipedia

Phyllis Crane (August 7, 1914 – October 12, 1982) was a Canadian-born American film actress. She appeared in over 45 films between 1928 and 1937.

Crane signed with Columbia Pictures in 1934. Modern viewers will recognize Crane from her appearances in several early Three Stooges films, such as Three Little Pigskins, Uncivil Warriors, and Pop Goes the Easel. Perhaps her most famous role was as Professor Nichols' daughter in Hoi Polloi.

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Midnight Blunders
Title: Midnight Blunders
Character: Miss Millstone (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and rescue the professor.
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Ay Tank Ay Go
Title: Ay Tank Ay Go
Character: Mary Lou Beagle
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Boy loves girl, but she's on the other side in a hillbilly feud.
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My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
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A Pain in the Pullman
Title: A Pain in the Pullman
Character: Girl Curly Kisses (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1936
Type: Movie
The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train.
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The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Character: Peggy Watts (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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Three on a Limb
Title: Three on a Limb
Character: Molly's Friend the Car-Hop
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé. When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the girl takes pity on the martyred Elmer and they drive off together. She informs him that she is also fending off another suitor, Oscar; and to make matters worse, her father is backing the cop while her mother promotes Oscar. Eventually all three men wind up competing for her hand at a chaotic wedding ceremony that ends with Elmer winning his beloved.
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Hot Paprika
Title: Hot Paprika
Character: The Bank Filing Clerk
Released: December 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A bank clerk, who mistakenly believes he has three months to live, quits his job, runs off to the island of Paprika, gets involved with a flirty cantina dancer, and becomes entangled in a revolution.
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The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Character: Miss Parsons
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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Hoi Polloi
Title: Hoi Polloi
Character: Nichols' Daughter (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as gentlemen.
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Every Night at Eight
Title: Every Night at Eight
Character: Telephonist (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Title: The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Character: Vera
Released: July 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.
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Stage Frights
Title: Stage Frights
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
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Murder in the Fleet
Title: Murder in the Fleet
Character: Woman Trying to Leave Ship (Uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
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Alias Mary Dow
Title: Alias Mary Dow
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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Uncivil Warriors
Title: Uncivil Warriors
Character: Miss Judith Buttz (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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Pop Goes the Easel
Title: Pop Goes the Easel
Character: Model in Tights (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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Three Little Pigskins
Title: Three Little Pigskins
Character: Molly Gray
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
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Men in Black
Title: Men in Black
Character: Anna Conda (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Girl in Box
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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Elmer, the Great
Title: Elmer, the Great
Character: Gentryville Journal reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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It's a Cinch
Title: It's a Cinch
Character: Phyllis
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
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Young Bride
Title: Young Bride
Character: The Taxi Dancer
Released: April 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
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Keep Laughing
Title: Keep Laughing
Released: January 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Keep Laughing is a 1932 Comedy short
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The Lure of Hollywood
Title: The Lure of Hollywood
Released: July 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
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Aloha
Title: Aloha
Character: Dixie
Released: April 26, 1931
Type: Movie
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
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Crashing Hollywood
Title: Crashing Hollywood
Released: April 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Ten Cents a Dance
Title: Ten Cents a Dance
Character: Eunice
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Three Hollywood Girls
Title: Three Hollywood Girls
Character: Phyllis
Released: January 4, 1931
Type: Movie
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Hold the Baby
Title: Hold the Baby
Released: November 9, 1930
Type: Movie
short subject comedy
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College Lovers
Title: College Lovers
Character: Josephine Crane
Released: October 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Romance on a college campus.
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The Girl Said No
Title: The Girl Said No
Character: Alma Ward
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
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The Forward Pass
Title: The Forward Pass
Character: Dot
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith, and to Coach Wilson that he will quit the game forever. Ed Kirby, who dislikes Reid, calls him yellow, and Wilson gets Patricia Carlyle, the college vamp, to induce Reid to play. At a sorority dance, where only football players can cut in, Kirby persecutes Reid by dancing with Pat, and as a result Reid does apply to play in the game.
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So This Is College
Title: So This Is College
Character: Betty Jackson
Released: November 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
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Why Be Good?
Title: Why Be Good?
Character: Salesgirl (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
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Stolen Kisses
Title: Stolen Kisses
Character: Margot
Released: February 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Racing Romance
Title: Racing Romance
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Racing Romance is a 1927 Action film. According to a brief article in the St. Petersburg, FL Evening Independent newspaper, the film was centered in the world of automobile racing. The article also noted that racing sequences in the film were shot at the "world famous Culver City Race track," which referred to the Culver City Speedway, a popular racing venue that opened in mid-Jun 1924 and was located adjacent to Washington Blvd., close to M-G-M and other movie studios. Apparently it's a lost film.