Stella Stevens

Stella Stevens

Born: October 1, 1938
Died: February 17, 2023
in Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA
Stella Stevens (born Estelle Eggleston; October 1, 1938 – February 17, 2023) was an American actress, model, film producer, director, and writer. She began her acting career in 1959 and starred in popular films such as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), The Silencers (1966), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).

Stevens also appeared in numerous television series, miniseries, and movies including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960, 1988), Bonanza (1960), The Love Boat (1977, 1983), Hart to Hart (1979), Newhart (1983), Murder, She Wrote (1985), Magnum, P.I. (1986), Highlander: The Series (1995), and Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress.

She appeared in three Playboy pictorials, and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960.

Stevens died from Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles at the age of 84.

[Biography, excerpted, from Wikipedia]

Movies for Stella Stevens...

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Title: Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Character: Self - Actress (archive footage)
Released: May 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Hawaii, May 1977. After the success of Star Wars, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg meet to find a new project to work on together, the former as producer, the latter as director. The story of how the charismatic archaeologist Indiana Jones was born and how his first adventure, released in 1981, triumphed at box offices around the world.
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Megaconda
Title: Megaconda
Character: Mary Jane
Released: February 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Volcanic activity awakens a prehistoric giant anaconda, forcing the local Sheriff and a band of volunteers to stop the menace.
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Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Title: Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: March 21, 2009
Type: Movie
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Elvis: #1 Hit Performances & More
Title: Elvis: #1 Hit Performances & More
Character: Herself (archive footage)
Released: November 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Elvis fans, thank your lucky stars. This jam-packed collection of pulse-raising performances from TV, movies, concerts and special events showcases the King delivering blistering renditions of 30 No. 1 hits. An outstanding introduction to the magic of Elvis Presley! This collection of 30 wonderful performances by the King of Rock 'n' Roll showcasing 21 of his #1 US and UK hits and 9 other classics. Culled from his TV guest appearances, movies, and concert films and television specials -- from 1956, the year his star ascended, to the 1970s when he reached the pinnacle of his career -- this is Elvis at his best. Highlights include Elvis singing "Don't Be Cruel" for his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and his performance of "Stuck on You" for "Welcome Home, Elvis," a TV variety special hosted by Frank Sinatra.
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Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
Title: Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
Character: Herself (archive footage)
Released: November 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Elvis fans, thank your lucky stars. This jam-packed collection of pulse-raising performances from TV, movies, concerts and special events showcases the King delivering blistering renditions of 15 No. 1 hits. Highlights include Elvis singing "Don't Be Cruel" for his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and his performance of "Stuck on You" for "Welcome Home, Elvis," a TV variety special hosted by Frank Sinatra.
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Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
Title: Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 15, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary about Jerry Lewis directed by Eckhart Schmidt.
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Popstar
Title: Popstar
Character: Henrietta
Released: November 8, 2005
Type: Movie
A teenage girls life gets turned upside down when a new school friend turns out to be a popstar.
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Hell to Pay
Title: Hell to Pay
Character: Mary Potter
Released: August 12, 2005
Type: Movie
Ten legendary Western stars are reunited in this action-packed tale of brothers at odds-one a decorated soldier and reluctant hero, the other a gambler who keeps company with card sharks and corrupt women-in a small mining town torn apart by civil war. When they fall for the same woman, the brothers become divided; and one man is left to face a band of ruthless killers on his own. A tribute to the great American Western, Hell to Pay is a gritty and mesmerizing tale of love, honor, duty, treachery and betrayal.
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Glass Trap
Title: Glass Trap
Character: Joan Highsmith
Released: August 2, 2005
Type: Movie
When an army of radioactive ants are unknowingly carted into a skyscraper, a group of people have to find a way out before they're eaten one by one.
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Title: Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Character: Self
Released: July 25, 2004
Type: Movie
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
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Blessed
Title: Blessed
Character: Betty
Released: May 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Good fortune appears to be smiling on the couple when they are given an opportunity to receive free treatments at a mysterious fertility clinic.
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Cult Culture: The Poseidon Adventure
Title: Cult Culture: The Poseidon Adventure
Character: Herself / Narrator
Released: December 31, 2003
Type: Movie
This documentary follows avid fans and the pop cultural impact of the classic disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure.
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The Long Ride Home
Title: The Long Ride Home
Character: Fiona Champyon
Released: March 27, 2003
Type: Movie
A man fights the law and the lawless in order to reunite with his wife and son in the 1860s west.
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Jim Brown: All-American
Title: Jim Brown: All-American
Character: Self
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Jim Brown: All-American is a 2002 documentary film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at the life of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown. The film delves into his life—past, present and future—focusing on his athletic career, acting and activism. Many people from Hollywood and sports backgrounds were interviewed for the film. Members of Brown's family were also interviewed for the film.
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The Christmas List
Title: The Christmas List
Character: Natalie Parris
Released: December 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Perfume saleslady Melody Parris feels like her life is in neutral. Her stick-in-the mud boyfriend won't commit and she gets passed over for a promotion at the store where she works. She decides to make a Christmas list. After it's deposited in Santa's mailbox at the store, she starts getting everything she wanted, but it doesn't always turn out as she expected.
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The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Title: The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Character: Josephine 'Mama Jo' Max
Released: April 25, 1997
Type: Movie
Mama Josephine Max wants to build a theme park in Hazzard, right on the Duke family farm! To stop her, Bo and Luke have to win a cross-country moonshine race. Because that's how things get settled in Hazzard.
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Bikini Hotel
Title: Bikini Hotel
Character: Gail Regent
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Samantha Vance inherits the Tiki Hotel when her father dies. She decides to fix it up but has problems drumming up business. Her friends throw a party at the hotel and an idea is born to make it the "Bikini Hotel" with all of the staff members wearing bikinis. This elicits jealousy in the nearby Regent Hotel who wish to turn Samantha's hotel into a parking lot. It all culminates in a competition where the winner gets to stay.
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Title: In Cold Blood
Character: Hotel Keeper
Released: November 24, 1996
Type: TV
At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, the brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrified the nation. This film is based on Truman Capote's hauntingly detailed, psychologically penetrating nonfiction novel. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 20, hears a cell-mate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith, also 20, to join him in going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all. The bodies are found by two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors are routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation heads the case, but there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...
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Title: Nash Bridges
Character: Suzie Dupree
Released: March 29, 1996
Type: TV
Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.
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Invisible Mom
Title: Invisible Mom
Character: Mrs. Pringle
Released: February 29, 1996
Type: Movie
A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.
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Subliminal Seduction
Title: Subliminal Seduction
Character: Mrs. Beecham
Released: January 28, 1996
Type: Movie
Darrin Danver is married to Deb. He is a videogames programmer and works for Z-Games when he receives an offer for a job from CTC. He accepts the offer and moves with his wife Deb near Las Vegas. There he discovers that he is paid a lot only to develop the videogame Radical Rat Trap, which is to follow Amazing Mouse Maze. But the great family of CTC uses Videogames Cd-Rom and subliminal messages to try to control minds, his and his wife's.
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Star Hunter
Title: Star Hunter
Character: Mrs. March
Released: January 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Star hunters are the space monsters who hunt helpless creatures for pleasure. One night couple of high school fotball players and their cheerleaders are returning home after the lost game. But, when their bus makes the wrong turn, they are going to meet those creatures, and the real game will begin.
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Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure
Title: Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure
Character: Fran Sibley
Released: September 19, 1995
Type: Movie
TV producer Clair Archer, charged with the murder of her co-producer, hires attorney Simon Mitchell to defend her. Though happily married, Simon falls for Clair's seductive wiles and then, in the middle of the trial and the torrid affair, discovers that Clair is guilty. Simon's associate, Lane, finds incriminating evidence against Clair. Simon tries to end the affair. But Clair cleverly sets up Lane so that when Clair kills Simon, Simon's wife suspects Lane -- and shoots her. Clair Archer is judged "not guilty" and walks away free.
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Virtual Combat
Title: Virtual Combat
Character: Mary
Released: July 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Two Nevada border officers, Dave Quarry (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) and John (Ken McLeod), amuse themselves off duty by honing their kick-boxing skills via virtual reality combat. Elsewhere, a computer tycoon prepares to market his company's latest invention, a combination of DNA and virtual reality that creates beings and creatures who look and feel real.
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The Granny
Title: The Granny
Character: Granny (Anastasia Gargoli)
Released: May 23, 1995
Type: Movie
Granny's family wants her dead so they can collect her insurance. While she is on her death bed, she drinks an eternal life potion and returns to the land of the living. She is on a mission to wreak havoc over her greedy relatives.
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Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Title: Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Character: Lawanda
Released: September 8, 1994
Type: Movie
Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles
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Molly and Gina
Title: Molly and Gina
Character: Mrs. Sweeny
Released: May 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Molly is the former secretary of a murdered private detective. Gina, a budding actress, witnessed the shooting which also killed her boyfriend. Together, they set out to bring the culprits to justice.
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Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III
Title: Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III
Character: Frannie Sibley
Released: February 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Movie producer Alan Clay wants to make a movie about Dr. Claire Archer and her amazing life story. Claire falls for Alan, and Alan cannot resist temptation, so now he's hiding an affair from wife Beth. When the movie writer's investigations uncover new facts in the killings, Claire senses the danger, and responds.
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Illicit Dreams
Title: Illicit Dreams
Character: Cicily
Released: January 11, 1994
Type: Movie
A man and a woman sharing a psychic link meet and fall in love, but the woman's influential and powerful husband stands in their way.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Candice Collier
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: TV
Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.
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Title: Viper
Character: Lorraine
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: TV
Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and coupe. The series takes place in "the near future". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The Viper Defender "star car" was designed by Chrysler Corporation engineers. The exterior design of the car was produced by Chrysler stylist Steve Ferrerio.
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Hard Drive
Title: Hard Drive
Character: Susan
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Sexual encounters and criminal mayhem occur when two people meet via their computers.
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Little Devils: The Birth
Title: Little Devils: The Birth
Character: Clara Madison
Released: August 27, 1993
Type: Movie
The Little Devils are mini-masters of mayhem, created by an evil scientist. Dr. Lionel discovers an ancient mudpot from Hell, returning home with samples of it. Unfortunately, he has been possessed, and begins to sculpt Gargoyles, later giving them life. Of course, they then go about killing people and wreaking havoc.
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South Beach
Title: South Beach
Character: Nancy
Released: August 4, 1993
Type: Movie
Former NFL star Mack Derringer now works as a private detective. Someone is out to get Derringer and his ex-wife. Can Derringer put the pieces of this deadly puzzle together before its too late?
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Eye of the Stranger
Title: Eye of the Stranger
Character: Doc
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
A stranger comes into town and causes a stir when he stands up for the townfolk, in the face of the intimidation tactics from Mayor Howard Baines. The scheming mayor wants to buy up all the local properties, and has hired two thugs to help 'persuade' the owners to sell.
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Exiled in America
Title: Exiled in America
Character: Sonny Moore
Released: November 4, 1992
Type: Movie
A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a Christian sanctuary movement. His wife gets a job at a local diner run by one of the town's shadier women, and soon a CIA assassination team shows up, looking for him.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Margaret Lang
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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The Nutt House
Title: The Nutt House
Character: Mrs. Robinson
Released: September 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Two identical twins, separated since infancy, meet after 30 years causing a series of mistaken identity and crisis for all involved.
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Title: The Commish
Character: Donna DeVries
Released: September 28, 1991
Type: TV
Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.
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Last Call
Title: Last Call
Character: Betty
Released: April 6, 1991
Type: Movie
As a little girl, Cindy had to witness how the shady estate agent Jason Laurence killed her mother. In the 22 years since then, he was never called to account for this crime. So Cindy decides to take vengeance herself.
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The Terror Within II
Title: The Terror Within II
Character: Kara
Released: January 18, 1991
Type: Movie
In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutant breaks inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the earth's surface.
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Title: Dream On
Released: July 8, 1990
Type: TV
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.
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Mom
Title: Mom
Character: Beverly Hills
Released: June 19, 1990
Type: Movie
During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.
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Hoodwinked
Title: Hoodwinked
Character: Sandra Summers
Released: November 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Burnt-out private dick Jacob Aloysius Spanner teams up with his brother to help an old adversary track down his one remaining loved one, his kidnapped granddaughter. But who's the hood and who's being hoodwinked?
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Title: Father Dowling Mysteries
Character: Katherine 'Kate' St. Urban
Released: January 20, 1989
Type: TV
Father Dowling Mysteries is an American television mystery series that aired from January 20, 1989 to May 2, 1991. Prior to the series, a TV movie aired on November 30, 1987. For its first season, the show was on NBC; it moved to ABC for its last two seasons. It is based on the adventures of the title character created by Ralph McInerny, in a series of mystery novels. The series was produced by The Fred Siverman Company and Dean Hargrove Productions in association with Viacom Productions.
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Man Against the Mob
Title: Man Against the Mob
Character: Joey Day
Released: January 10, 1988
Type: Movie
In 1930s Los Angeles, a police detective leads an elite squad against a vicious organized crime ring.
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Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
Title: Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
Character: Katherine 'Kate' St. Urban
Released: November 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Frank Dowling has to solve the mystery of a young man who is obsessed with finding his natural parents.
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Monster in the Closet
Title: Monster in the Closet
Character: Margo Crane
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: Movie
After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic.
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A Masterpiece of Murder
Title: A Masterpiece of Murder
Character: Della Vance
Released: January 27, 1986
Type: Movie
An over-the-hill gumshoe reluctantly teams with worldly retired master thief to solve a string of art thefts and murders.
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The Longshot
Title: The Longshot
Character: Nicki Dixon
Released: January 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
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The History of White People in America: Volume II
Title: The History of White People in America: Volume II
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In this daring follow-up to The History of White People in America, comedian Martin Mull takes us on an in-depth look at such topics as White Religion, White Stress, White Politics, and White Crime.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Georgia Brooks
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Sally Mestin
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Highway to Heaven
Character: Stella
Released: September 19, 1984
Type: TV
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
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Title: Santa Barbara
Character: Phyllis Blake
Released: July 30, 1984
Type: TV
Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolves around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Other prominent families featured on the soap were the rival Lockridge family, and the more modest Andrade and Perkins families. Santa Barbara aired in over 40 countries around the world and is best remembered for its witty dialogue and sometimes tongue-in-cheek situations that often seemed like an affectionate parody of the genre. The show won 24 Daytime Emmy Awards and 18 Soap Opera Digest Awards among various other awards.
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No Man's Land
Title: No Man's Land
Character: Nellie Wilder
Released: May 27, 1984
Type: Movie
Sheriff Stella Stevens uses her wiles and the help of her three resourceful daughters -- one by each of her previous husbands -- to rope in a notorious desperado and a band of foreign revolutionaries in this light-hearted Western.
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Amazons
Title: Amazons
Character: Kathryn Lundquist
Released: January 29, 1984
Type: Movie
A cult of descendants of the Amazons plot to take control of mankind, but an inquisitive doctor might uncover their plans.
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Title: Night Court
Character: Irene Danbury
Released: January 4, 1984
Type: TV
Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984 to May 31, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone. It was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Women of San Quentin
Title: Women of San Quentin
Character: Lt. Janet Alexander
Released: October 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
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Chained Heat
Title: Chained Heat
Character: Captain Taylor
Released: May 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after driving drunk and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better.
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Wacko
Title: Wacko
Character: Mrs. Doctor Graves
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
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Title: Newhart
Character: Erica Chase
Released: October 2, 1982
Type: TV
Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.
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Title: Matt Houston
Character: Clover McKenna
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.
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Twirl
Title: Twirl
Character: Carolyn Moore
Released: October 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Best friends compete for the title of "Miss Twirl" (similar to a Miss America contest with the primary category of competition being (what else?) twirling!). The real test, however, is whether their friendship will survive through the contest with the pressure and interference from their parents to win.
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Title: Flamingo Road
Character: Lute-Mae Sanders
Released: January 6, 1981
Type: TV
Flamingo Road is an American prime time soap opera that aired on NBC. It was first seen as a TV movie on May 12, 1980, and as a series on January 6, 1981, after a rebroadcast of the pilot on December 30, 1980. The show is based on the 1949 movie starring Joan Crawford, which is, in turn, based on the novel by Robert Wilder. Flamingo Road was created to compete against CBS's Dallas and Knots Landing, nighttime dramas that were inspired by the daily afternoon soap operas that had been a staple of TV for years. The character of Constance Weldon ranked at #16 on E!'s list of The 50 Most Wicked Women in Primetime.
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Children of Divorce
Title: Children of Divorce
Character: Sherry Malik
Released: November 24, 1980
Type: Movie
The conflict and separation of their parents and the impact on four youngsters from three socially different families is the thrust of this drama.
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Flamingo Road
Title: Flamingo Road
Character: Lute-Mae Sanders
Released: May 12, 1980
Type: Movie
A carnival drifter marries into an aristocratic family and unwillingly takes on a ruthless sheriff who fancies himself a political kingmaker in this pilot film to the later series.
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Make Me an Offer
Title: Make Me an Offer
Character: Deidre Price
Released: January 11, 1980
Type: Movie
Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal with Pete Strickland, the "King" of Beverly Hills real estate, who wants more than she cares to give for teaching her the ins and outs of the business.
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Friendships, Secrets and Lies
Title: Friendships, Secrets and Lies
Character: Edyth
Released: December 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.
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Title: The French Atlantic Affair
Character: Louise Crawford
Released: November 15, 1979
Type: TV
When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it's paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979.
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Title: Hart to Hart
Character: Dr. Fleming
Released: September 22, 1979
Type: TV
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
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Hart to Hart
Title: Hart to Hart
Character: Dr. Fleming
Released: August 25, 1979
Type: Movie
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.
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Express to Terror
Title: Express to Terror
Character: Lucy
Released: February 7, 1979
Type: Movie
A gambling addict, mobsters, movie producers and others are plagued with murder while aboard a high-speed rail train. This pilot episode for the short-lived "Supertrain" series (which lasted just 9 episodes) was released to home video as a independent feature.
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Title: Supertrain
Character: Lucy
Released: February 7, 1979
Type: TV
Supertrain is an American television drama/adventure series that ran on NBC from February 7 to May 5, 1979. Nine episodes were made, including a 2-hour pilot episode.
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The Jordan Chance
Title: The Jordan Chance
Character: Verna Stewart
Released: December 12, 1978
Type: Movie
Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of murder. The local police give him every reason to believe she was railroaded to ease a tense racial status quo, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent the case from being reopened.
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Title: The Eddie Capra Mysteries
Released: September 8, 1978
Type: TV
The Eddie Capra Mysteries is an American mystery television series starring Vincent Baggetta that aired on NBC from September 8, 1978, to January 12, 1979. The series centers on a lawyer who investigates murders and has a knack for solving them.
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The Manitou
Title: The Manitou
Character: Amelia Crusoe
Released: April 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
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Cruise Into Terror
Title: Cruise Into Terror
Character: Marilyn Magnesun
Released: February 3, 1978
Type: Movie
An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's passengers behave strangely.
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Title: The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Character: Kate Malloy
Released: October 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare.
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Murder in Peyton Place
Title: Murder in Peyton Place
Character: Stella Chernak
Released: October 3, 1977
Type: Movie
A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Toni Cooper
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Kathy Costello
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Hannah Morgan
Released: September 21, 1977
Type: TV
The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
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Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Title: Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Character: Martha McVea
Released: June 9, 1977
Type: Movie
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
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The New Love Boat
Title: The New Love Boat
Character: Leonora Klopman
Released: May 5, 1977
Type: Movie
Guest stars include Georgia Engel as a stowaway, Gary Frank and Melanie Mayron as a pair of tremulous honeymooners, Stella Stevens and Pat Harrington as an eternally bickering married couple, and Audra Lindley and Phil Silvers as, respectively, an outspoken middle-aged lady and a woebegone widower.
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Mister Deathman
Title: Mister Deathman
Character: Liz
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
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Nickelodeon
Title: Nickelodeon
Character: Marty Reeves
Released: December 21, 1976
Type: Movie
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
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Wanted: The Sundance Woman
Title: Wanted: The Sundance Woman
Character: Lola Wilkins
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") in this adventure of the fugitive who, alone and desperate following the deaths of Butch and Sundance, seeks help from Pancho Villa in exchange for guns and ammunition.
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Kiss Me, Kill Me
Title: Kiss Me, Kill Me
Character: Stella Stafford
Released: May 8, 1976
Type: Movie
A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.
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Title: Wonder Woman
Character: Marcia
Released: November 7, 1975
Type: TV
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor. Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil.
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Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Title: Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Character: The Dragon Lady / Bianca Jarin
Released: July 11, 1975
Type: Movie
When fellow operatives and friends disappear during a mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones comes to help. She discovers the disappearance involves The Dragon Lady, a feared lipstick lesbian who runs a casino and the local drug trade.
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Las Vegas Lady
Title: Las Vegas Lady
Character: Lucky
Released: June 1, 1975
Type: Movie
In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless: Lucky's boyfriend is a security officer at the casino, Lisa is a trapeze artist who's now plagued with vertigo, and Carol is in debt to a nasty thug - plus, as a Black woman, she's subject to additional harassment. Can the gals pull off the heist, or is the plan, with it's mysterious organizer, too complicated to succeed?
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The Day the Earth Moved
Title: The Day the Earth Moved
Character: Kate Barker
Released: September 18, 1974
Type: Movie
An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one believes the duo until the tremors start and the walls begin to collapse.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Gold Dust
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up with Lucy Cotton, a young woman he meets there. This failed television pilot film is loosely based on Honky Tonk (1941), which starred Clark Gable.
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Arnold
Title: Arnold
Character: Karen
Released: November 16, 1973
Type: Movie
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
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Linda
Title: Linda
Character: Linda Reston
Released: November 3, 1973
Type: Movie
A woman kills her lover's wife, then sets out to frame her husband for the murder.
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Climb an Angry Mountain
Title: Climb an Angry Mountain
Character: Sheila Chilko
Released: December 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Sheriff Elisha Cooper has to work with New York City officer Nelson after his son is taken hostage by a fugitive who is hiding out on California's Mount Shasta.
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The Poseidon Adventure
Title: The Poseidon Adventure
Character: Linda Rogo
Released: December 13, 1972
Type: Movie
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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Title: Ghost Story
Character: Joanna Brent
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: TV
Ghost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle, it initially featured supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, and witches. By mid-season, low ratings led to a shift -- for the most part -- away from paranormal themes and a title change to Circle of Fear.
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Title: Banacek
Character: Jill Hammond
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.
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Title: Hec Ramsey
Character: Ivy Turnwright
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Hec Ramsey is a television Western, a production of Jack Webb's production company, Mark VII Limited, in association with Universal Studios, broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel show during the 1972-73 and 1973-74 seasons.
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Slaughter
Title: Slaughter
Character: Ann
Released: August 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and after being blackmailed by the feds, is forced to head to South America to finish the mobsters off.
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Stand Up and Be Counted
Title: Stand Up and Be Counted
Character: Yvonne Kellerman
Released: May 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments.
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A Town Called Hell
Title: A Town Called Hell
Character: Alvira
Released: October 27, 1971
Type: Movie
A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.
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In Broad Daylight
Title: In Broad Daylight
Character: Elizabeth Chappel
Released: October 16, 1971
Type: Movie
A newly blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and hatches a plot to murder her and frame his friend for it.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Title: The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Character: Hildy
Released: March 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
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The Mad Room
Title: The Mad Room
Character: Ellen Hardy
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they were put there after killing their parents. Ellen, who now lives in the house of an old widow, Mrs. Armstrong, takes them in. But if their secret gets out, it could jeopardize Ellen's plans to wed Mrs. Armstrong's stepson. She struggles with anxiety -- until Mrs. Armstrong suddenly turns up dead.
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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Title: Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Character: Sister George
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country.
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Sol Madrid
Title: Sol Madrid
Character: Stacey Woodward
Released: February 7, 1968
Type: Movie
Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.
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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Title: How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Character: Carol Corman
Released: January 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
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Rage
Title: Rage
Character: Perla
Released: November 30, 1966
Type: Movie
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
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The Silencers
Title: The Silencers
Character: Gail Hendricks
Released: February 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
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The Secret of My Success
Title: The Secret of My Success
Character: Violet Lawson
Released: September 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Women (Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens) and his mother help an English constable (James Booth) rise to ruler of a banana republic.
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Synanon
Title: Synanon
Character: Joaney Adamic
Released: May 5, 1965
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California.
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Advance to the Rear
Title: Advance to the Rear
Character: Martha Lou Williams
Released: June 10, 1964
Type: Movie
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag group on a classified mission to protect a transport for the U.S. Treasury. Complicating matters is Martha Lou Williams, a Confederate agent posing as a lady of the evening.
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The Nutty Professor
Title: The Nutty Professor
Character: Stella Purdy
Released: June 4, 1963
Type: Movie
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Title: The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Character: Dollye Daly
Released: March 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
Title: Girls! Girls! Girls!
Character: Robin Gantner
Released: November 21, 1962
Type: Movie
When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor, Ross Carpenter, has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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Too Late Blues
Title: Too Late Blues
Character: Jess Polanski
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Man-Trap
Title: Man-Trap
Character: Nina Jameson
Released: September 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Helmed by Edmond O'Brien, this slick crime thriller stars Jeffrey Hunter as naïve Matt Jameson, whose Korean War pal Vince Biskay talks Matt into helping commandeer nearly $4 million from a Central American dictator. After Vince is wounded in a gun battle as they're making off with the loot, the duo holes up at Matt's house -- where his boozy, promiscuous wife puts the moves on Vince.
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Li'l Abner
Title: Li'l Abner
Character: Appassionata Von Climax
Released: December 11, 1959
Type: Movie
A comedy musical based on the comic strip charcters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch, USA are notified by the government that they must evacuate because of atomic bomb testing, they try to persuade the government that their town is worth saving. Meanwhile, Earthquake McGoon wants to marry Daisy Mae; Daisy Mae wants to marry Li'l Abner, and Li'l Abner just wants to go fishing.
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Title: Hawaiian Eye
Character: Carol Judd
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: TV
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
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Title: Johnny Ringo
Character: Suzanne Crale
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, also known as John Peters Ringo or John B. Ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Ann 'Annie' Croft
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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The Blue Angel
Title: The Blue Angel
Character: Showgirl
Released: September 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 classic.
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Say One for Me
Title: Say One for Me
Character: Chorine
Released: June 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Father Conroy has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his parishioners gets too sick to work, his daughter Holly finds a job working for a dance club of questionable character, which is run by Tony Vincent. Vincent never made the big time, and Father Conroy tries to look after Holly.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Judy
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: The Bob Hope Show
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1950
Type: TV
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.