Barbara Weeks

Barbara Weeks

Born: July 4, 1913
Died: June 24, 2003
in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Barbara Weeks...

Gun Girls
Title: Gun Girls
Character: Teddi's Mother
Released: December 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Pregnancy cramps the style of a young female hoodlum who joins her fellow delinquents on regular robbery sprees.
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The Violent Years
Title: The Violent Years
Character: Jane Parkins
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, and they run afoul of the law, apple pie, and God himself.
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Dramatic School
Title: Dramatic School
Character: Student (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
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The Old Wyoming Trail
Title: The Old Wyoming Trail
Character: Elsie Halliday
Released: November 8, 1937
Type: Movie
In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds -- were added to The Old Wyoming Trail, an otherwise average Charles Starrett vehicle. No singer, Starrett left the vocalizing to his sidekick Donald Grayson and the popular Sons of the Pioneers. En route to purchase a herd of cattle, Bob Patterson (Starrett) and his sidekick Sandy (Grayson) get in the way of a scheme to defraud the local ranchers of their possessions.
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Title: Two-Fisted Sheriff
Character: Molly Herrick
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
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She Was a Lady
Title: She Was a Lady
Character: Moira
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
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Now I'll Tell
Title: Now I'll Tell
Character: Wynne
Released: June 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
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Woman Unafraid
Title: Woman Unafraid
Character: Mary Sloan
Released: March 27, 1934
Type: Movie
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
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School for Girls
Title: School for Girls
Character: Nell Davis
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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The Crosby Case
Title: The Crosby Case
Character: Nora
Released: March 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Diana Winthrop
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
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My Weakness
Title: My Weakness
Character: Lois Crowley
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
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Rusty Rides Alone
Title: Rusty Rides Alone
Character: Mollie Martin
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.
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Soldiers of the Storm
Title: Soldiers of the Storm
Character: Spanish waitress
Released: April 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
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State Trooper
Title: State Trooper
Character: Estelle
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also romantically involved with Brady's daughter, June. It appears that some highly-placed employee has sold out to the opposition refinery people, and much sabotage and havoc is being caused.
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Sundown Rider
Title: Sundown Rider
Character: Molly McCall
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.
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Forbidden Trail
Title: Forbidden Trail
Character: Mary Middleton
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Karger is behind all the cattle rustling. After Tom Devlin catches his man Burke in the act, Burke hides evidence against Karger in his jail cell. Later when Tom is jailed he accidentally finds the evidence, but the Karger encited mob has jailed the Sheriff and is already on the loose.
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Deception
Title: Deception
Character: Joan Allen
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
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White Eagle
Title: White Eagle
Character: Janet Rand
Released: October 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Gregory is a phony government agent issuing worthless checks. To keep from being exposed he has his men dress as Indians and attack anything bringing mail. This leads to an Indian war. White Eagle, a pony express rider, exchanges his buckskins for his native Indian garb, and sets out to end the war.
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The Night Mayor
Title: The Night Mayor
Character: Nutsy
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal rocks his administration, Tracy has his girl friend marry Dillaway, a writer friend, so that the press will leave him alone.
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By Whose Hand?
Title: By Whose Hand?
Character: Alice Murray
Released: July 6, 1932
Type: Movie
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
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Hell's Headquarters
Title: Hell's Headquarters
Character: Diane Cameron
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Doctor Smith and his wife, Mary,depart a riverboat and are met by Phil Talbot. Phil informs Dr. Smith that Jessup, the only other white man in the village, has died while the doctor and his wife were off on a two-day holiday. Unknown to Smith, Jessup and his partner, Ross King, had a large cache of ivory tusks in the jungle, and he had told Phil about it. Meanwhile, Mary Smith has decided to steam-boat down the Congo River to Capetown for an extended holiday. Kuba, King's gun-bearer, asks Smith to write a letter to King, currently residing at a New York City Explorer's Club, and advise him that his partner has died. Talbot sends a letter to his stateside sweetheart, Diane Cameron, and her father, asking them to come to Africa and join him on an ivory-treasure expedition, and replenish their family-fortune lost in the recent stock-market crash. What Mr. Cameron and Diane don't know about Talbot is that his years in Africa have unhinged him...
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Devil's Lottery
Title: Devil's Lottery
Character: Joan Mather
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Intricate, soapy drama of romance, heartbreak, and murder amongst a diverse group of sweepstakes winners visiting a newspaper tycoon's estate.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Title: The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Character: Beautician
Released: February 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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Cheaters at Play
Title: Cheaters at Play
Character: Fenno Crozier
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
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Discarded Lovers
Title: Discarded Lovers
Character: Valerie Christine
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free and easy lifestyle and messy romantic affairs. Among them are Grace Sibley the jealous wife of her director, Warren Sibley, her drunken actor husband, Andre Leighton, her screenwriter boyfriend, Rex Forsythe, and her first husband, Robert Worth. Also on hand to help solve the mystery are visiting reporter Bob Adair, Irma's secretary, Valerie Christine, and policemen Captain Sommers and Sergeant Delaney.
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Men in Her Life
Title: Men in Her Life
Character: Miss Mulholland
Released: November 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".
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Two Fisted Justice
Title: Two Fisted Justice
Character: Nancy Cameron
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
It's good guy Carson and the Poncho Riders against bad guy Slavin and his gang.
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Palmy Days
Title: Palmy Days
Character: Joan Clark
Released: September 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychic, is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rob the payroll.
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Party Husband
Title: Party Husband
Character: Sally
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.
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Illicit
Title: Illicit
Character: Girl at the Bridal Shower #1 (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Title: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.