Mary Alan Hokanson

Mary Alan Hokanson

Born: November 25, 1916
Died: February 15, 1994
in Evanston, Illinois, USA

Movies for Mary Alan Hokanson...

Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
Title: Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
Character: Gossip Columnist
Released: May 14, 1984
Type: Movie
This is a splendid little sleeper of a movie. Ernie Kovacs was one of the giants of early television. I think he would be pleased with the way Jeff Goldbloom captures his wonky personality. Melody Anderson also distills that of Edie Adams. There is a very basic heart tugging story about the search for Kovacs' two abducted daughters. But at the same time the film is funny --- Cloris Leachman is a hoot as Kovacs impossible mom --- and has many of the offbeat and innovative qualities of the old Kovacs show itself.
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In Love with an Older Woman
Title: In Love with an Older Woman
Character: Carolyn
Released: November 24, 1982
Type: Movie
A 29-year-old lawyer falls for a 43-year-old woman.
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Senior Trip
Title: Senior Trip
Character: ITA Receptionist
Released: December 30, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock star; Judy Matheson, a stagestruck coed actress wannabe; Denise, a free-spirited girl hoping to obtain a degree of sophistication; Fred, a lotharo looking for any Big City woman to be with; and Jon Lipton, a would-be artist hoping to make it big. Mickey Rooney also appears briefly as himself during the backstage scene at the musical "Sugar Babies."
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Arthur
Title: Arthur
Character: Secretary
Released: July 17, 1981
Type: Movie
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
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Somebody Killed Her Husband
Title: Somebody Killed Her Husband
Character: Indignant Woman
Released: September 29, 1978
Type: Movie
A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.
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Desperate Characters
Title: Desperate Characters
Character: Flo Holstein
Released: September 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.
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All the Fine Young Cannibals
Title: All the Fine Young Cannibals
Character: Mrs. Macklederry (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1960
Type: Movie
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
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Lonelyhearts
Title: Lonelyhearts
Character: Edna
Released: March 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.
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Spoilers of the Forest
Title: Spoilers of the Forest
Character: Marie Milna
Released: April 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest.
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The Opposite Sex
Title: The Opposite Sex
Character: (uncredited)
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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Tea and Sympathy
Title: Tea and Sympathy
Character: Mary Williams
Released: September 27, 1956
Type: Movie
At a high school reunion, a young man recalls his boarding school days, when the only person who seemed to sympathize with him was his housemaster's wife.
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Guys and Dolls
Title: Guys and Dolls
Character: Agatha
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Maitre d'
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mrs. Parker (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Wichita
Title: Wichita
Character: Mrs. Jackson (Michael's Mother) (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
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Cult of the Cobra
Title: Cult of the Cobra
Character: Army Nurse
Released: March 30, 1955
Type: Movie
While stationed in Asia, six American G.I.'s witness the secret ritual of Lamians (worshipers of women who can change into serpents). When discovered by the cult, the High Lamian Priest vows that "the Cobra Goddess will avenge herself". Once back in the United States, a mysterious woman enters into their lives and accidents begin to happen. The shadow of a cobra is seen just before each death.
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Deep in My Heart
Title: Deep in My Heart
Character: Miss Cranbrook (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
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Them!
Title: Them!
Character: Mrs. Lodge
Released: June 16, 1954
Type: Movie
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent, and the world.
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Crime Wave
Title: Crime Wave
Character: Second Police Broadcaster (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
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Sally and Saint Anne
Title: Sally and Saint Anne
Character: Sister Leonard
Released: July 1, 1952
Type: Movie
An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
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This Woman Is Dangerous
Title: This Woman Is Dangerous
Character: Prison Doctor (Uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1952
Type: Movie
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
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Westward the Women
Title: Westward the Women
Character: Cora (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: Movie
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
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The Family Secret
Title: The Family Secret
Released: October 21, 1951
Type: Movie
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Woman from Magazine (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Criminal Lawyer
Title: Criminal Lawyer
Character: Mrs. Johnson
Released: August 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
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Storm Warning
Title: Storm Warning
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A fashion model (Rogers) witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister (Day).
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The Flying Missile
Title: The Flying Missile
Character: Waitress
Released: December 24, 1950
Type: Movie
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
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Undercover Girl
Title: Undercover Girl
Character: Trainee (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1950
Type: Movie
After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.
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Three Secrets
Title: Three Secrets
Character: Betty Lewis (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
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The Killer That Stalked New York
Title: The Killer That Stalked New York
Character: Nurse Donna (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
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Pretty Baby
Title: Pretty Baby
Character: Young Mother (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
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No Sad Songs for Me
Title: No Sad Songs for Me
Character: Reception Nurse (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.