Marion Martin

Marion Martin

Born: June 7, 1908
Died: August 13, 1985
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Marion Martin (born Marion Suplee, June 7, 1909 – August 13, 1985) was an American movie and stage actress.

Martin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a Bethlehem Steel executive. She became an actress after her family fortune was lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and appeared in the Broadway productions Lombardi Ltd. and Sweet Adeline.

She made her film debut in She's My Lillie, I'm Her Willie and subsequently played minor roles, often as showgirls. Several of her early roles were in musicals and she achieved some success as a singer. By the end of the decade she had played leading female roles in several "B" pictures, playing one of her most notable roles in James Whale's Sinners in Paradise (1938). Despite her success she was often cast in minor roles in more widely seen films such as His Girl Friday (1940). The majority of her roles were in comedies but she also appeared in dramas such as Boom Town (1940) in which she played a dance hall singer who is briefly romanced by Clark Gable. She played secondary roles in three Lupe Vélez "Mexican Spitfire" films in the early 1940s, and was a comic foil for the Marx Brothers in The Big Store, where the back of her skirt is cut away by Harpo.

She played a ghost in Gildersleeve's Ghost, and was the subject of a legendary fistfight between Gildersleeve star Harold Peary and Warner Bros studio mogul Bud Stevens at the Mocambo nightclub in 1943. Her more substantial roles included Alice Angel, a dizzy showgirl, in the murder mystery Lady of Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck and Angel on My Shoulder. She also appeared in The Big Street with Lucille Ball, in the western The Woman of the Town with Claire Trevor and in The Great Mike at PRC in 1944.

By the late 1940s, her roles were often minor. Three Stooges fans will remember her as western cowgirl Gladys in Merry Mavericks. She played "Belle Farnol" in a 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger entitled "Pardon for Curley". Shortly afterward, she made her final film appearance in 1952. Married to a physicist, Martin retired, and although she expressed the desire to return to show business, suitable roles were not offered to her.

She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. She died in 1985 in Santa Monica, California, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

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Oklahoma Annie
Title: Oklahoma Annie
Character: LaBelle La Tour
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
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Journey Into Light
Title: Journey Into Light
Character: Diana (as Marian Martin)
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
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Merry Mavericks
Title: Merry Mavericks
Character: Gladys
Released: September 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Set in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an Indian Chief. The crooks escape and go after the money disguised as ghosts, but Shemp, disguised as the Indian Chief, manages to knock them out.
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Dakota Lil
Title: Dakota Lil
Character: Blonde Singer
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.
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Key to the City
Title: Key to the City
Character: Emmy
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: Movie
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron Kerrigan
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Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Title: Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Character: Bar Blonde
Released: November 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
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Come to the Stable
Title: Come to the Stable
Character: Rossi's Manicurist (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
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Thunder in the Pines
Title: Thunder in the Pines
Character: Pearl (as Marian Martin)
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
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Should Husbands Marry?
Title: Should Husbands Marry?
Character: Loud Friend's Girlfriend
Released: November 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.
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Lighthouse
Title: Lighthouse
Character: JoJo, the Blonde
Released: January 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Two men and a woman form a triangle confined by a lighthouse.
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That Brennan Girl
Title: That Brennan Girl
Character: Marion, Natalie's Girl Friend (as Marian Martin)
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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Nobody Lives Forever
Title: Nobody Lives Forever
Character: Lou, Blonde (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
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Angel on My Shoulder
Title: Angel on My Shoulder
Character: Mrs. Bentley
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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Black Angel
Title: Black Angel
Character: Millie
Released: August 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
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Queen of Burlesque
Title: Queen of Burlesque
Character: Lola Cassell
Released: July 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
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Deadline for Murder
Title: Deadline for Murder
Character: Laura Gibson
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.
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Suspense
Title: Suspense
Character: Shooting Gallery Blond (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...
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Cinderella Jones
Title: Cinderella Jones
Character: Burlesque Queen
Released: March 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
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Girls of the Big House
Title: Girls of the Big House
Character: Dixie
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Title: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Character: Miss Milbane
Released: October 5, 1945
Type: Movie
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Bubbles (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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Gangs of the Waterfront
Title: Gangs of the Waterfront
Character: Rita (as Marian Martin)
Released: July 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.
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Penthouse Rhythm
Title: Penthouse Rhythm
Character: Irma King
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
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The Phantom Speaks
Title: The Phantom Speaks
Character: Betty Hanzel
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
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Eadie Was a Lady
Title: Eadie Was a Lady
Character: Rose Allure
Released: January 24, 1945
Type: Movie
In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But trouble starts when her boss (William Wright) decides to build her up as a star. One of the many bread-and-butter Columbia productions graced by the contributions of Cole’s in-house dance studio. Cole dances behind Miller in “I’m Gonna See My Baby.” --Museum of Modern Art
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The Great Mike
Title: The Great Mike
Character: Kitty Tremaine
Released: November 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck and his best friend Jimmy, together they have a paper route, on which they deliver papers to customers via a wagon pulled by Mike. Recently a horse track has been built in the area and attracts horse breeder and racer Colonel Whiteny. He takes out a subscription for delivery and meets Mike and Speck & Jimmy. Clever Jimmy talks both the Colonel and Speck into taking on the Colonel's pure bred race horses at the track with comedic results.
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Mystery of the Riverboat
Title: Mystery of the Riverboat
Character: Celeste Eltree [Chs. 1-4, 7]
Released: October 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
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The Merry Monahans
Title: The Merry Monahans
Character: Soubrette
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.
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Gildersleeve's Ghost
Title: Gildersleeve's Ghost
Character: Terry Vance
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Title: Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Character: Ghost of Josephine
Released: March 7, 1944
Type: Movie
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
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The Woman of the Town
Title: The Woman of the Town
Character: Daisy Davenport
Released: December 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
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Lady of Burlesque
Title: Lady of Burlesque
Character: Alice Angel
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.
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They Got Me Covered
Title: They Got Me Covered
Character: Gloria
Released: March 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington, D.C., he convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his job back. The pair soon find themselves in several awkward predicaments as they track the criminals down in a night club, a burlesque show, and face a final showdown at a beauty salon.
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The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Title: The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Character: Myrtle
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instructor, Samson, and later going with him to his out-of-town health club. To sort out all the misunderstandings both Tim and Eddie go to the health club as well.
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Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
Title: Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
Character: Diana De Corro
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.
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The Big Street
Title: The Big Street
Character: Mimi Venus
Released: August 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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Tales of Manhattan
Title: Tales of Manhattan
Character: 'Squirrel' Grey
Released: August 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
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Powder Town
Title: Powder Town
Character: Sue, Blonde Piano Player
Released: June 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Title: Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Character: Fifi Russell
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
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Wedded Blitz
Title: Wedded Blitz
Character: Mrs. Errol
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young wife is playing around with strange men.
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Fly-By-Night
Title: Fly-By-Night
Character: Nurse
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Weekend for Three
Title: Weekend for Three
Character: Mrs. Gloria Weatherby
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Title: The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Character: Fifi
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
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Lady Scarface
Title: Lady Scarface
Character: Ruby / Mary Jordan
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
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New Wine
Title: New Wine
Character: Mitzi
Released: September 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
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Cracked Nuts
Title: Cracked Nuts
Character: Flashy Blonde in Corridor
Released: July 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
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Love at First Fright
Title: Love at First Fright
Character: Liza Hatrack
Released: June 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A family of hillbillies mistake a radio announcer for their long-lost relative.
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The Big Store
Title: The Big Store
Character: Peggy Arden
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Gertie
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Blonde Inspiration
Title: Blonde Inspiration
Character: Wanda
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
Title: Tall, Dark and Handsome
Character: Dawn
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Title: Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Character: Cornelia
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
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Blondes and Blunders
Title: Blondes and Blunders
Character: Blondie, Jewel Thief
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: Whitey
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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His Girl Friday
Title: His Girl Friday
Character: Evangeline (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Blonde (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Mlle. de la Valliere
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.
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Invitation to Happiness
Title: Invitation to Happiness
Character: Lola Snow
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Charlotte LePage
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Pirates of the Skies
Title: Pirates of the Skies
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
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His Exciting Night
Title: His Exciting Night
Character: Gypsy McCoy
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Character: Jane
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
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Youth Takes a Fling
Title: Youth Takes a Fling
Character: Girl on Beach
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
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Sinners in Paradise
Title: Sinners in Paradise
Character: Iris Compton
Released: May 19, 1938
Type: Movie
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.
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Cupid Takes a Holiday
Title: Cupid Takes a Holiday
Character: Annabelle Postal -1st Prospective Bride
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. But all the candidates are either too fat, too young, too old, too skinny or too ugly,and he turns them all down.
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The Miss They Missed
Title: The Miss They Missed
Released: January 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found. He uses most of his dialect ability in the search by posing as a Chinaman, an Englishman, a sailor and a Scotchman, but is unable to find her. He meets his sweetheart at a restaurant and, there, discovers she is the heiress he has been searching for. She breaks off their romance when she finds out she is rich.
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Moon Over Manhattan
Title: Moon Over Manhattan
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm.
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She's My Lilly, I'm Her Willie
Title: She's My Lilly, I'm Her Willie
Character: Miss Brooks
Released: September 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A star goes on a cruise under a false name to enjoy his vacation. When people accidently believe he is a wanted criminal he performs a few acts to prove his real identity.
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Crime Without Passion
Title: Crime Without Passion
Character: Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
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Mr. W's Little Game
Title: Mr. W's Little Game
Character: The Blonde
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
As the rather fussy 'Mr. W' is dining in a restaurant, the waiter introduces him to an attractive woman, who sits down at his table. She asks him to take her to the theater, but he declines, indicating that he would prefer to relax at the restaurant. To entertain her, he teaches her a word game called the 'Minute Game'.