Frances Grant

Frances Grant

Born: February 15, 1909
Died: February 20, 1982

Movies for Frances Grant...

Bride by Mistake
Title: Bride by Mistake
Character: Dancing Instructor
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: Dancer
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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Rich Relations
Title: Rich Relations
Character: Nancy Tilton
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.
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Born to Fight
Title: Born to Fight
Character: Nan Howard
Released: November 2, 1936
Type: Movie
An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out. Thinking he's killed him and believing that the police are after him, the horrified boxer runs off and takes to the road, promising never to box again. However, one day he comes upon a small but scrappy young kid who has the potential to be a champion. The former boxer takes the kid under his wing and trains him, but the kid's ensuing success starts to go to his head. Pretty soon he finds himself mixed up with gamblers, too.
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Cavalry
Title: Cavalry
Character: Betty Lee Harvey
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Just after the Civil War, Captain Thorn is sent west to help protect the new telegraph line that is under construction. Leeds is out to establish an independent nation in the west and tries stop its construction and also incoming wagon trains by inciting the Indians to attack both of them.
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The Traitor
Title: The Traitor
Character: Mary Allen
Released: August 29, 1936
Type: Movie
To prevent a lynching, Ranger Tim lets two outlaws go saying he will get them later. This gets him kicked out of the Rangers and he goes across the border and joins Big George's gang who are running contraband. But the outlaw Jimmy overhears Tim tell his sister that the dismissal was a fake. Big George and his gang then go after Tim and trap him in a cabin.
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Oh, Susanna
Title: Oh, Susanna
Character: Mary Ann Lee
Released: August 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Mary Baxter
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
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Dancing Feet
Title: Dancing Feet
Character: Dance Hall
Released: January 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
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Thunder Mountain
Title: Thunder Mountain
Character: Nugget
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowboys who find a gold mine in "Thunder Mountain", but have no money to develop it. One of the cowboys rescues a girl on a stagecoach and her grateful father agrees to finance them. Along the way, she pretends to fall in love with one of the cowboys. Thinking he is about to be very rich, he sets out, but upon arrival, he finds that a bad man has stolen the claim and started a town. There, everyone turns on him, including the girl, but luckily, another pretty girl, a barmaid (who is secretly in love with him), sticks by him, and he ends up in a climactic shootout on the mountain where the gold is stashed.
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Doubting Thomas
Title: Doubting Thomas
Character: Peggy Burns
Released: July 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Hoofer
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.