Gail Russell

Gail Russell

Born: September 21, 1924
Died: August 27, 1961
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gail Russell was an American screen and television actress who is probably best remembered for her role as Stella Meredith in the 1944 film The Uninvited.

Movies for Gail Russell...

The Silent Call
Title: The Silent Call
Character: Flore Brancato
Released: May 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Young Guy Brancato and parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they are unable to take Guy's dog Pete. Guy is angry at his parents and even more distressed when he learns that Pete has run away from the neighbor who was tending him. But Pete has plans to travel to Los Angeles on his own.
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Title: The Rebel
Character: Cassandra Bannister
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.
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No Place to Land
Title: No Place to Land
Character: Lynn Dillon
Released: October 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A cropduster pilot finds himself caught between two women—one who loves him and the other, who doesn’t handle rejection well, who’s out to destroy him.
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The Tattered Dress
Title: The Tattered Dress
Character: Carol Morrow
Released: March 14, 1957
Type: Movie
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...
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7 Men from Now
Title: 7 Men from Now
Character: Annie Greer
Released: August 4, 1956
Type: Movie
A former sheriff relentlessly pursuing the 7 men who murdered his wife in Arizona crosses paths with a couple heading to California.
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Air Cadet
Title: Air Cadet
Character: Janet Page
Released: March 14, 1951
Type: Movie
A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.
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The Lawless
Title: The Lawless
Character: Sunny Garcia
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
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Captain China
Title: Captain China
Character: Kim Mitchell
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: Movie
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
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The Great Dan Patch
Title: The Great Dan Patch
Character: Cissy Lathrop
Released: July 22, 1949
Type: Movie
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.
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El Paso
Title: El Paso
Character: Susan Jeffers
Released: March 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.
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Song of India
Title: Song of India
Character: Princess Tara
Released: February 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a government-approved hunting expedition.
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Wake of the Red Witch
Title: Wake of the Red Witch
Character: Angelique Desaix
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
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Moonrise
Title: Moonrise
Character: Gilly Johnson
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Title: Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Character: Jean Courtland
Released: August 20, 1948
Type: Movie
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.
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Variety Girl
Title: Variety Girl
Character: Gail Russell
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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Angel and the Badman
Title: Angel and the Badman
Character: Penelope 'Penny' Worth
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
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Calcutta
Title: Calcutta
Character: Virginia Moore
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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The Bachelor's Daughters
Title: The Bachelor's Daughters
Character: Eileen MacFarland
Released: August 6, 1946
Type: Movie
A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rented by pooling resources and pretending to be wealthy themselves.
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Title: Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Character: Cornelia Otis Skinner
Released: June 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
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Duffy's Tavern
Title: Duffy's Tavern
Character: Gail Russell
Released: September 28, 1945
Type: Movie
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
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The Unseen
Title: The Unseen
Character: Elizabeth Howard
Released: May 12, 1945
Type: Movie
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
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Salty O'Rourke
Title: Salty O'Rourke
Character: Barbara Brooks
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Title: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Character: Cornelia Otis Skinner
Released: November 2, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
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The Uninvited
Title: The Uninvited
Character: Stella Meredith
Released: February 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.
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Lady in the Dark
Title: Lady in the Dark
Character: Barbara
Released: February 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.
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Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Title: Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Character: Virginia Lowry
Released: April 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.