Joanna Roos

Joanna Roos

Born: January 11, 1901
Died: May 13, 1989

Movies for Joanna Roos...

The Rimers of Eldritch
Title: The Rimers of Eldritch
Character: Mary Winrod
Released: November 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Lanford Wilson's prize-winning drama about life in a played-out coal town in the Midwest. Against the background of a murder trial, the people recall their lives.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Mary Winrod
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Two Weeks in Another Town
Title: Two Weeks in Another Town
Character: Janet Bark
Released: August 17, 1962
Type: Movie
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
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Splendor in the Grass
Title: Splendor in the Grass
Character: Mrs. Stamper
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
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The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
Title: The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
Character: Dr. Edith Kinnian
Released: February 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Teleplay adaptation of Daniel Keyes' noted short story “Flowers for Algernon,” about a gentle, disabled young man who undergoes a highly experimental treatment to increase his mental capacity.
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The Master Builder
Title: The Master Builder
Released: March 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Famed playwright Henrik Ibsen tells the tale of a master builder in the twilight of his career who reaches for love in response to his work's demise.
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Johnny Belinda
Title: Johnny Belinda
Character: Maggie
Released: October 13, 1958
Type: Movie
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.
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Patterns
Title: Patterns
Character: Margaret Lanier
Released: March 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.
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Patterns
Title: Patterns
Character: Miss Lanier
Released: January 12, 1955
Type: Movie
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.
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The Skull Murder Mystery
Title: The Skull Murder Mystery
Character: Amy Beck
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
When a skeleton is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion. The team of Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree study the skull of the victim to solve the murder.