Beverly Roberts

Beverly Roberts

Born: May 19, 1914
Died: July 13, 2009
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Beverly Roberts was only a teenager when she was accepted for dramatic training. Years later, she began singing in venues, including nightclubs. One fateful night, a talent scout from a movie studio heard her beautiful voice and so began the next chapter in her life. She acted with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, and Pat O'Brien. She decided to return to great love--singing, as well as acting on stage and television.

Movies for Beverly Roberts...

Buried Alive
Title: Buried Alive
Character: Joan Wright
Released: November 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
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Main Street Lawyer
Title: Main Street Lawyer
Character: Flossie
Released: November 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Story of a lawyer, gangster and a floozy.
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Tropic Fury
Title: Tropic Fury
Character: Judith Adams
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
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First Offenders
Title: First Offenders
Character: Susan Kent
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that gives juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their lives before they reach the point of no return. He meets much resistance from various segments of the law and the citizens.
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I Was a Convict
Title: I Was a Convict
Character: Judy Harrison
Released: March 6, 1939
Type: Movie
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Character: Bonnie
Released: December 15, 1938
Type: Movie
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
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Flirting with Fate
Title: Flirting with Fate
Character: Patricia Lane
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
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Tenth Avenue Kid
Title: Tenth Avenue Kid
Character: Susan Holland
Released: August 22, 1938
Type: Movie
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
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Call of The Yukon
Title: Call of The Yukon
Character: Jean Williams
Released: April 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Adventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gathering material for her novel. She befriends several animals who become her loyal friends such as a pair of bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunter Gaston Rogers, a talking raven and the bereaved collie Firefly who will not leave the grave of her master, a game warden killed in the line of duty. The community is imperiled by a pack of wolves and wild dogs, led by a wild dog called Swift Lightning, who are killing all the reindeer. With the supply of fresh meat gone, the Eskimos are migrating to lands with more food. Hunter Gaston agrees to take Jean to Nenana, Alaska, along with his furs by dog sled. Jean, who despises Gaston as being more savage and blood thirsty than the four-legged predators, is followed by her loyal animals.
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Making the Headlines
Title: Making the Headlines
Character: Jeane Sandford
Released: March 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.
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The Daredevil Drivers
Title: The Daredevil Drivers
Character: Jerry Neeley
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
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Expensive Husbands
Title: Expensive Husbands
Character: Laurine Lynne
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
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West of Shanghai
Title: West of Shanghai
Character: Jane Creed
Released: October 30, 1937
Type: Movie
American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
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The Perfect Specimen
Title: The Perfect Specimen
Character: Alicia Brackett
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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Her Husband's Secretary
Title: Her Husband's Secretary
Character: Diane Ware
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Jo Barton
Released: January 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
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China Clipper
Title: China Clipper
Character: Jean Logan
Released: August 11, 1936
Type: Movie
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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Hot Money
Title: Hot Money
Character: Grace Lane
Released: July 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
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Two Against the World
Title: Two Against the World
Character: Alma Ross
Released: July 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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Sons o' Guns
Title: Sons o' Guns
Character: Mary Harper
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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The Singing Kid
Title: The Singing Kid
Character: Ruth Haines
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.