Anne Gwynne

Anne Gwynne

Born: December 10, 1918
Died: March 31, 2003
in San Antonio, Texas, USA
Anne Gwynne was signed by Universal Pictures when she was 20 yrs old, and co-starred in "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" with Buster Crabbe soon thereafter . Over the next years, Miss Gwynne would be featured in some thirty-eight Universal films, and become one of the studio’s most recognizable stars. She co-starred in an additional 20 films, for MGM, Allied Artists, and RKO Pictures among other studios. 

Anne Gwynne co-starred in what was the first filmed dramatic series for television, 1947-1948's "Public Prosecutor", filming 26 episodes for NBC (also known as "Crawford Mystery Theatre"). Anne Gwynne's motion picture and television career spanned the years 1939 through 1970.

Movies for Anne Gwynne...

Adam at Six A.M.
Title: Adam at Six A.M.
Character: Mrs. Gaines
Released: September 22, 1970
Type: Movie
A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.
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Doom of Dracula
Title: Doom of Dracula
Character: Rita, the girl
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.
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Title: Northwest Passage
Released: September 14, 1958
Type: TV
Northwest Passage is a 26-episode half-hour adventure television series produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about Major Robert Rogers during the time of the French and Indian War. The show derived its title and the main characters Rogers, Towne, and Marriner from the 1937 novel of the same name by Kenneth Roberts, and from the 1940 MGM feature film based on the novel. The scope of the novel was much broader than that of the series, and the second half of the book included an historically based attempt by Rogers to find a water route through North America as a "passage" to the Pacific Ocean. This attempt, lending its name to the novel and used by Roberts as a metaphor for the questing human spirit, is referenced in the first episode. One of the earlier series telecast in color, Northwest Passage aired new episodes on NBC from September 14, 1958, to March 13, 1959. Keith Larsen played the lead role; Buddy Ebsen, later the star of CBS's The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones, appeared as Sergeant Hunk Marriner, and Don Burnett co-starred as Ensign Langdon Towne.
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Teenage Monster
Title: Teenage Monster
Character: Ruth Cannon
Released: January 8, 1958
Type: Movie
In a little Western town, a boy is subjected to rays from a meteor. As a result, he grows into a teenaged, hairy, psychopathic killer. His mother hides him in her basement.
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Breakdown
Title: Breakdown
Character: Candy Allen
Released: July 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.
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King of the Bullwhip
Title: King of the Bullwhip
Character: Jane Kerrigan
Released: December 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thief.
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Call of the Klondike
Title: Call of the Klondike
Character: Nancy Craig
Released: December 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
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The Blazing Sun
Title: The Blazing Sun
Character: Kitty Kelly
Released: November 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Gene Autry hunts bank robbers Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas with his old friend Mike. Bartlett, to throw off his pursuers, kills Trot and his own brother. When Kitty Bartlett comes to town claiming to be the slain Bartlett's widow, Gene has to save her from the irate townspeople who are not aware that her name isn't Bartlett but she really is the daughter of a law officer slain by Al Bartlett. Ben Luder, a local hood, tricks Bartlett back into town by saying he has to fixed to have Doc Larry Taylor do plastic surgery on him. En route they meet Doc and his assistant Helen Ellis and Ben's ruse is exposed. Bartlett kills Ben and forces Doc to drive him to the railroad. Gene, in a fight atop a runaway train, captures Bartlett.
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Arson, Inc.
Title: Arson, Inc.
Character: Jane Jennings
Released: June 24, 1949
Type: Movie
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
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The Enchanted Valley
Title: The Enchanted Valley
Character: Midge Gray
Released: March 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.
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Panhandle
Title: Panhandle
Character: June O'Carroll
Released: February 22, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Title: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Character: Tess Trueheart
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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The Ghost Goes Wild
Title: The Ghost Goes Wild
Character: Phyllis Beecher
Released: August 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
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Killer Dill
Title: Killer Dill
Character: Judy Parker
Released: August 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
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Title: Public Prosecutor
Character: Patricia Kelly
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: TV
Public Prosecutor is a 26-episodes American television series produced in 1947–1948, and first aired in 1951.
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The Glass Alibi
Title: The Glass Alibi
Character: Belle Martin
Released: April 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.
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Fear
Title: Fear
Character: Eileen Stevens
Released: March 2, 1946
Type: Movie
B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.
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I Ring Doorbells
Title: I Ring Doorbells
Character: Brooke Peters
Released: February 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her.
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House of Frankenstein
Title: House of Frankenstein
Character: Rita Hussman
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
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Babes on Swing Street
Title: Babes on Swing Street
Character: Frances Carlyle
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
The president of a settlement-house group puts on a benefit variety show.
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Murder in the Blue Room
Title: Murder in the Blue Room
Character: Nan
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.
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South of Dixie
Title: South of Dixie
Character: Dixie Holister
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
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To the People of the United States
Title: To the People of the United States
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1944
Type: Movie
World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis.
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Moon Over Las Vegas
Title: Moon Over Las Vegas
Character: Marion Corbett
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
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Weird Woman
Title: Weird Woman
Character: Paula Clayton Reed
Released: March 1, 1944
Type: Movie
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
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Ladies Courageous
Title: Ladies Courageous
Character: Gerry Vail
Released: February 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
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Top Man
Title: Top Man
Character: Pat Warren
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
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Frontier Badmen
Title: Frontier Badmen
Character: Chris Prentice
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get for their beef. They set out to change the situation.
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We've Never Been Licked
Title: We've Never Been Licked
Character: Nina Lambert
Released: July 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate.
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Keeping Fit
Title: Keeping Fit
Character: Nurse
Released: October 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Topical wartime short depicting the plight of civilians who must stay in shape in order to fight the good fight.
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Sin Town
Title: Sin Town
Character: Laura Kirby
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.
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Men of Texas
Title: Men of Texas
Character: Jane Baxter Scott
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
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Broadway
Title: Broadway
Character: Pearl
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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You're Telling Me
Title: You're Telling Me
Character: Kit Bellamy
Released: May 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Title: The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Character: Kit Logan Church
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Anne Shaw
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Jail House Blues
Title: Jail House Blues
Character: Doris Daniels
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
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Don't Get Personal
Title: Don't Get Personal
Character: Susan Blair
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.
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Road Agent
Title: Road Agent
Character: Patricia Leavitt
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their alibi checks out. Far from offended by his ill treatment, Duke agrees to take the job of sheriff, retaining Pancho and Andy as his deputies. The gruesome threesome then sets about to solve a series of mysterious Wells Fargo robberies
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Melody Lane
Title: Melody Lane
Character: Patricia Reynolds
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."
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Mob Town
Title: Mob Town
Character: Marion Barker
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
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Tight Shoes
Title: Tight Shoes
Character: Ruth
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
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The Black Cat
Title: The Black Cat
Character: Elaine Winslow
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
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Washington Melodrama
Title: Washington Melodrama
Character: Mary Morgan
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
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Nice Girl?
Title: Nice Girl?
Character: Sylvia Dana
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
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Give Us Wings
Title: Give Us Wings
Character: Julie Mason
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Jenny
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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Bad Man from Red Butte
Title: Bad Man from Red Butte
Character: Tibby Mason
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder.
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Sandy Is a Lady
Title: Sandy Is a Lady
Character: Millie
Released: May 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
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It's a Date
Title: It's a Date
Character: Society Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: Sonja
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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Black Friday
Title: Black Friday
Character: Jean Sovac
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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Honeymoon Deferred
Title: Honeymoon Deferred
Character: Cecile Blades
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to make sure he doesn't get too friendly with any members of the opposite sex, either.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Josephine Weaver (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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The Big Guy
Title: The Big Guy
Character: Joan's Friend (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Character: Miss Larkin, Charlie's Nurse
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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The Man from Montreal
Title: The Man from Montreal
Character: Doris Blair
Released: December 9, 1939
Type: Movie
The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The stars are cast respectively as fur trapper Clark Manning and constable Bones Blair, who carry on a friendly rivalry in the Canadian Northwest. Our heroes team up in the final reels to put the kibosh on a fur-smuggling racket, permitting Universal to plunge deeply into its stock-footage files. The leading ladies this time out are Anne Gwynne and Kay Sutton, their billing status indicating which one of the two ladies will land Clark Manning in the last scene. Incredibly, the Arlen-Devine series lasted for 14 films, none of them classics but all of them worthwhile Saturday-matinee fare.
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Oklahoma Frontier
Title: Oklahoma Frontier
Character: Janet Rankin
Released: October 9, 1939
Type: Movie
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is also after the same section and has hired outlaws to make sure he gets it. When Jeff gives Rankin a map, the outlaws kill Rankin, steal the map, and frame Jeff for the murder. Scheduled to be hung the day of the land rush, Jeff's pal Frosty has a plan to free him.
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Unexpected Father
Title: Unexpected Father
Character: Kitty - showgirl
Released: June 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.