Janet Shaw

Janet Shaw

Born: January 23, 1919
Died: October 15, 2001

Movies for Janet Shaw...

Poppy
Title: Poppy
Character: Sally Forth
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form, pantomime. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Louise (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Front Page
Title: The Front Page
Character: Peggy Grant
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Newspaper comedy based loosely on the 1928 stage-play and its subsequent film adaptations.
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They Won't Believe Me
Title: They Won't Believe Me
Character: Susan Haines (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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Time Out of Mind
Title: Time Out of Mind
Character: Penny
Released: May 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
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Nocturne
Title: Nocturne
Character: Grace Andrews
Released: October 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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Dark Alibi
Title: Dark Alibi
Character: Miss Petrie
Released: May 25, 1946
Type: Movie
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
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The Scarlet Horseman
Title: The Scarlet Horseman
Character: Elise Halliday
Released: January 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Government agents work to interfere with schemes to trick the Comanches into war with the Texans.
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Sensation Hunters
Title: Sensation Hunters
Character: Katie Rogers
Released: October 12, 1945
Type: Movie
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
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Jungle Raiders
Title: Jungle Raiders
Character: Ann Reed
Released: September 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Greedy traders have kidnapped a researcher, hoping he will reveal the location of a treasure in a hidden village. Family and friends of the researcher come looking for him. Adventure ensues.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Switchboard Operator
Released: June 8, 1945
Type: Movie
A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.
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The Scarlet Clue
Title: The Scarlet Clue
Character: Gloria Bayne
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
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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Arizona Trail
Title: Arizona Trail
Character: Martha Brooks
Released: September 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: Diana Harding
Released: May 28, 1943
Type: Movie
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
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Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Title: Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Character: Martha Stewart
Released: March 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Tex Wyatt is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom and Holman, a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins, both of whom are working undercover as performers in a medicine show.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Young Girl
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Shadow of a Doubt
Title: Shadow of a Doubt
Character: Louise Finch
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, Charlotte’s admiration turns into suspicion.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Girl in Car (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Night Monster
Title: Night Monster
Character: Milly Carson
Released: October 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
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Honolulu Lu
Title: Honolulu Lu
Character: Debutante
Released: December 11, 1941
Type: Movie
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: Alice (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Hold That Ghost
Title: Hold That Ghost
Character: Alderman's Girl (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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You're Out of Luck
Title: You're Out of Luck
Character: Joyce Dayton
Released: January 20, 1941
Type: Movie
An elevator operator and a janitor team up to solve two murders that may be connected to an illegal gambling operation. Monogram.
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Lucky Devils
Title: Lucky Devils
Character: Wendy
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselves romancing Norma (Dorothy Lovett) and Gwendy (Janet Shaw), respectively.
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Greta a Student (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
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Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: Lucy - the Bride (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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Waterloo Bridge
Title: Waterloo Bridge
Character: Maureen
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.
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Alias the Deacon
Title: Alias the Deacon
Character: Mildred Gregory
Released: May 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
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Blondie on a Budget
Title: Blondie on a Budget
Character: Anniversary Cake Usherette (uncredited)
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
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The Old Maid
Title: The Old Maid
Character: Dee
Released: August 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
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The Rookie Cop
Title: The Rookie Cop
Character: Gerry Lane
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Title: Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Character: Janet Baldwin
Released: February 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Girl Entering Locker Room (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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King of the Underworld
Title: King of the Underworld
Character: Blonde Nurse (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: Young Lady at Party
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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Comet Over Broadway
Title: Comet Over Broadway
Character: Janet's Dining Companion (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Girls on Probation
Title: Girls on Probation
Character: Prison Inmate
Released: October 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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The Sisters
Title: The Sisters
Character: Stella Johnson
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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Broadway Musketeers
Title: Broadway Musketeers
Character: Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
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Many Sappy Returns
Title: Many Sappy Returns
Character: Florist
Released: August 19, 1938
Type: Movie
Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
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Gold Diggers in Paris
Title: Gold Diggers in Paris
Character: Golddigger
Released: June 11, 1938
Type: Movie
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
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Accidents Will Happen
Title: Accidents Will Happen
Character: Mary Tarlton
Released: April 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: Molly Allen
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Sergeant Murphy
Title: Sergeant Murphy
Character: Joan Furse
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
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She Loved a Fireman
Title: She Loved a Fireman
Character: Girl at Dance
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
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Expensive Husbands
Title: Expensive Husbands
Character: Telephone Operator
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
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Alcatraz Island
Title: Alcatraz Island
Character: Sally Carruthers
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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It's Love I'm After
Title: It's Love I'm After
Character: Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
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Prairie Thunder
Title: Prairie Thunder
Character: Joan Temple
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.