Willa Pearl Curtis

Willa Pearl Curtis

Born: March 21, 1896
Died: December 19, 1970

Movies for Willa Pearl Curtis...

Period of Adjustment
Title: Period of Adjustment
Character: Suzie (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Katie
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Queen Bee
Title: Queen Bee
Character: Miss George
Released: November 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A devilish Southern woman, married to a man who despises her, manages to manipulate those around her under the guise of being kind. But, when her sister-in-law is engaged to be married to the woman's former lover and her husband starts up an affair with her cousin, visting from New York, things start to go awry and she sets a plan to destroy it all.
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Bright Road
Title: Bright Road
Released: April 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
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Oiltown, U.S.A.
Title: Oiltown, U.S.A.
Character: Sally
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
A ruthless Texas oil baron and his non-believing daughter find God in this early witnessing film produced by and featuring Billy Graham.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Aunt Cassie
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Native Son
Title: Native Son
Character: Mrs. Hannah Thomas
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Author Richard Wright portrays his novel's Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur trapped in an accidental murder.
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The Mating Season
Title: The Mating Season
Character: Conger's Maid (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
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The Lawton Story
Title: The Lawton Story
Character: Willa Pearl
Released: March 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities. This portion of The Lawton Story was directed by Harold Daniels and narrated by radio announcer Knox Manning. To bring the film up to feature length, a fictional plotline concerning the preparations for the pageant was hastily assembled, featuring such familiar Hollywood character players as Forrest Taylor, Willa Pearl Curtis and Maude Eburne.
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Mr. Noisy
Title: Mr. Noisy
Character: Baseball Spectator with Baby (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1946
Type: Movie
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
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The Lost Weekend
Title: The Lost Weekend
Character: Mrs. Wertheim's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
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Mom and Dad
Title: Mom and Dad
Character: Junella
Released: January 3, 1945
Type: Movie
A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl discovers she is pregnant with his child.
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Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Title: Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Character: Vanillia--Cook (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1944
Type: Movie
After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
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Tale of a Dog
Title: Tale of a Dog
Character: Buckwheat's Mother
Released: April 15, 1944
Type: Movie
When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic.
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Unexpected Riches
Title: Unexpected Riches
Character: Big Shot's Mother
Released: November 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Weighing themselves on a penny machine, the Our Gang kids receive a fortune card predicting that they will receive "unexpected riches." Acting upon this, the kids decide to dig for buried treasure, using a fraudulent map provided by one of their wise-guy acquaintances.
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Sunny
Title: Sunny
Character: Woman at Chicken Shack (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.
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Second Chorus
Title: Second Chorus
Character: Scrubwoman
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.