Nina Campana

Nina Campana

Born: December 23, 1897
Died: March 29, 1955
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Nina Campana...

Twilight on the Rio Grande
Title: Twilight on the Rio Grande
Character: Mama López
Released: March 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Character: Cashier at Luigi's (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
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Call of the South Seas
Title: Call of the South Seas
Character: Nona
Released: April 7, 1944
Type: Movie
FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve Landrau. In the course of his investigation Gaige is introduce to the Paris-educated native princess Tahia, who believes that he has arrived to save her people from poverty. A romance, of course, ensues as Gaige attempts to expose Landrau before his cover is blown.
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Tortilla Flat
Title: Tortilla Flat
Character: Señora Teresina
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
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Honolulu Lu
Title: Honolulu Lu
Character: Aloha
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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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Teresa
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
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South of Pago Pago
Title: South of Pago Pago
Character: Hono's Mother
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
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Outlaw Express
Title: Outlaw Express
Character: Lupe
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Bradley and sidekick Sharpe are sent west to investigate the murders of pony express riders who are being killed to prevent the Spanish Land Grant papers going to Washington for registration.
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Title: Torchy Blane in Panama
Character: Spanish Woman (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
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Call of The Yukon
Title: Call of The Yukon
Character: Knudka
Released: April 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Adventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gathering material for her novel. She befriends several animals who become her loyal friends such as a pair of bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunter Gaston Rogers, a talking raven and the bereaved collie Firefly who will not leave the grave of her master, a game warden killed in the line of duty. The community is imperiled by a pack of wolves and wild dogs, led by a wild dog called Swift Lightning, who are killing all the reindeer. With the supply of fresh meat gone, the Eskimos are migrating to lands with more food. Hunter Gaston agrees to take Jean to Nenana, Alaska, along with his furs by dog sled. Jean, who despises Gaston as being more savage and blood thirsty than the four-legged predators, is followed by her loyal animals.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Tony's Wife (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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It Could Happen to You
Title: It Could Happen to You
Character: Italian Woman
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
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Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Title: Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Character: Ynez
Released: May 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trouble.
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It Happened Out West
Title: It Happened Out West
Character: Maria
Released: May 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the foreman know there's silver on that property.
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Night Key
Title: Night Key
Character: Mrs. Spinelli (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1937
Type: Movie
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Italian Woman (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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White Legion
Title: White Legion
Character: Maria
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Cook
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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The Petrified Forest
Title: The Petrified Forest
Character: Paula
Released: February 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Italian Wife
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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Hi, Nellie!
Title: Hi, Nellie!
Character: Italian Woman at 530 W. Houston (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.