Polly Ann Young

Polly Ann Young

Born: October 25, 1908
Died: January 21, 1997
in Denver, Colorado, USA
Polly Ann Young was born on October 25, 1908 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Man from Utah (1934), Invisible Ghost (1941) and The Last Alarm (1940). She was married to Carter Hermann. She died on January 21, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Sister of Sally Blane and Loretta Young, half-sister of Georgiana Young.

Movies for Polly Ann Young...

Invisible Ghost
Title: Invisible Ghost
Character: Virginia Kessler
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
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Road Show
Title: Road Show
Character: Helen Newton
Released: February 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
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The Last Alarm
Title: The Last Alarm
Character: Joan Hadley
Released: June 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his family.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Miss Gertie Twill
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Murder on the Yukon
Title: Murder on the Yukon
Character: Joan Manning
Released: February 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Unknown to Joan Manning, her trading post partner Weathers is operating a counterfeiting ring. When miner Jim Smithers brings his gold dust in, Weathers pays him off in counterfeit money. Jim's drunken brother, Bill, comes to the post and Weathers hears him say that Jim is leaving the area for good. Weathers sends Hawks to kill Jim and retrieve the bogus money. RCMP Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly find Jim's body, and Renfrew hurries for Jim's cabin to search it. He is attacked by Weathers' men who have found the money. Renfrew is suspicious when Bill Smithers body is found, supposedly a suicide, with a note he had burned the money. This leads the Mounties to suspect counterfeiting. Kelly follows Manti, an Indian who works for Weathers, to the gang's hideout and is captured. But Renfrew is trailing Kelly.
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Port of Hate
Title: Port of Hate
Character: Jerry Gale
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.
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Wolf Call
Title: Wolf Call
Character: Natalie
Released: May 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Grace Hubbard
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Mystery Plane
Title: Mystery Plane
Character: Anita
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
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I Cover Chinatown
Title: I Cover Chinatown
Character: Myra Duryea
Released: October 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
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The Border Patrolman
Title: The Border Patrolman
Character: Patricia Huntley
Released: June 20, 1936
Type: Movie
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to go save her.
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
Title: Hitch Hike To Heaven
Character: Jerry Delaney
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
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His Fighting Blood
Title: His Fighting Blood
Character: Doris Carstairs
Released: October 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his brother to kill him.
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Happiness C.O.D.
Title: Happiness C.O.D.
Character: Eleanor
Released: October 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.
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Thunder in the Night
Title: Thunder in the Night
Character: Torok's Sweetheart
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a message from a blackmailer, threatening her husband. When the blackmailer winds up dead, Madalaine appears to be the most likely suspect. Torok, however, knows the case is more complicated than it seems and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the mystery.
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The Crimson Trail
Title: The Crimson Trail
Character: Kitty Bellair
Released: March 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.
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Sons of Steel
Title: Sons of Steel
Character: Rose Mason
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...
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Elinor Norton
Title: Elinor Norton
Character: Publisher's Staff
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
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The Man from Utah
Title: The Man from Utah
Character: Marjorie Carter
Released: May 15, 1934
Type: Movie
The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders.
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Stolen Sweets
Title: Stolen Sweets
Character: Betty Harkness
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
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Lady with a Past
Title: Lady with a Past
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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The Circus Show-Up
Title: The Circus Show-Up
Character: Irene Duval
Released: February 17, 1932
Type: Movie
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
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The One Way Trail
Title: The One Way Trail
Character: Mollie
Released: October 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Tim thinks saloon owner Coldeye killed his brother. Seeking the ultimate payback, Tim gets a job in the saloon but has no idea he is targeting the wrong man.
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This Modern Age
Title: This Modern Age
Character: Parisian Party Girl (Uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
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Going Wild
Title: Going Wild
Character: Brunette Book Buyer
Released: December 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
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Our Blushing Brides
Title: Our Blushing Brides
Character: A Mannequin
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Gerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.
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Children of Pleasure
Title: Children of Pleasure
Character: Society Girl at Party (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
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Tanned Legs
Title: Tanned Legs
Character: Dancer
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
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The Masks of the Devil
Title: The Masks of the Devil
Character: Dancer
Released: November 17, 1928
Type: Movie
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1930)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Sheik
Title: The Sheik
Character: Arab Child (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
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Sirens of the Sea
Title: Sirens of the Sea
Character: Child
Released: September 20, 1917
Type: Movie
During a raging storm, a baby is washed up on shore on an island in Greece and is adopted by the wealthy Stanhopes, who name her Lorelei. Eighteen years later, Lorelei, now a woman, invites her school friends to spend their vacation at her villa. One of her guests, Julie, is insanely jealous of Lorelei. One day Gerald Waldron, a disenchanted society fop, sails by on his yacht, accompanied by his social-climbing friend, Hartley Royce. Seeing Lorelei and her friends swimming, they decide to go ashore. Both Gerald and Hartley fall in love with Lorelei, and Julie rages, finding herself relegated to Hartley. Together Hartley and Julie plot to separate the lovers.