
Birthday:
07-07-1911
Deathday:
08-12-2009 (98 years)
Birthplace:
Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA
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Strange Impersonation
Act like Jane Karaski #1
event1946 star_border 6
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A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.
Lady Gangster
Act like Lucy Fenton
event1942 star_border 5.8
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An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
Across the Pacific
Act like Secretary (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.5
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Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
Circumstantial Evidence
Act like Mrs. Simms
event1945 star_border 4.8
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A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
The Keys of the Kingdom
Act like Sister Clotilde
event1944 star_border 7
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A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
Escape from Crime
Act like Myrt - Slim's Moll
event1942 star_border 5.2
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An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
The Gorilla Man
Act like Janet Devon
event1943 star_border 5
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A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
Wilson
Act like Margaret Wilson
event1944 star_border 5.5
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The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.
The Hidden Hand
Act like Estelle Channing
event1942 star_border 6.3
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Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
Play It as It Lays
Act like Carlotta
event1972 star_border 6.2
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Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
Too Scared to Scream
Act like Irma Hornady
event1984 star_border 5.4
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A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.
Truck Busters
Act like Pearl Dorgan
event1943 star_border 6
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An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
Adventure in Iraq
Act like Tess Torrence
event1943 star_border 5.8
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Three Allied soldiers in an airplane flying to Egypt crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he appears to be.
Woman Who Came Back
Act like Ruth Gibson
event1945 star_border 5.5
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A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.
Murder in the Big House
Act like Irene Gordon
event1942 star_border 6.5
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When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Act like Helene de Leon
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
Act One
Act like Beatrice Kaufman
event1963 star_border 5.9
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This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professional and romantic failures before a meeting with George S. Kaufman which changes his fortunes.
Murder on the Waterfront
Act like Lana Shane
event1943 star_border 5
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A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
Act like Gran
event1982 star_border 6
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In 1880, a little girl is sent to Nantucket Island to live with her grandmother. She discovers, however, that her grandmother is an odd woman who has some strange habits, one of which is keeping a vigil for a lover of many years ago who went out to sea one day and never returned.
Screen Test [ST107]: Ruth Ford
event1964
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Ruth Ford has been placed in three-quarter profile against a white background, under instructions to keep still and try not to blink. With her head held high, she maintains her pose, only occasionally raising an eyebrow or blinking briefly. By the end her eyes are filled with tears from the effort.
Too Much Johnson
Act like Mrs. Billings
event2013 star_border 5.3
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This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy about a New York playboy who flees from the violent husband of his mistress and borrows the identity of a plantation owner in Cuba who is expecting the arrival of a mail order bride. The film component of the performance was ultimately never screened due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue. Long-believed to be lost, a workprint was discovered in 2008 and the film had its premiere in 2013.
The Man Who Returned to Life
Act like Beth Beebe
event1942 star_border 6
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An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
The Devil's Trail
Act like Ella
event1942 star_border 5
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Our heroes head to a wide-open town in search of a gang of desperadoes, headed by swarthy Noah Beery Jr. Along the way, Elliot and Ritter find time to pitch woo to leading lady Eileen O'Hearn. The Devil's Trail was based on a story with the more intriguing title "The Town in Hell's Backyard."
Dragonwyck
Act like Cornelia Van Borden (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.6
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For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
Air Force
Act like Nurse (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.4
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The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
The Tree
Act like Mrs. Gagnon
event1969
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A directionless and emotionally scarred young man kidnaps his niece, the daughter of his sister with whom he has a difficult past.
Roaring Frontiers
Act like Reba Bailey
event1941
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U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok arrives in Goldfield to arrest Tex Martin, who has been accused of murdering the sheriff. "Hawk" Hammond, the man behind the sheriff's killing, sends his legions of henchmen to lynch Tex before the trail. Wild Bill and Tex escape to a stagecoach rest station run by Reba Bailey. There is a showdown battle at Hammond's saloon but not before Tex gets to sing two songs followed by a third one after the battle.
Men of the Sky
Act like Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart
event1942 star_border 3.5
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A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.
Princess O'Rourke
Act like Clare Stillwell (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.4
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A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Act like Self - Actress (archive footage)
event2014 star_border 6.7
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The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
The Lady Is Willing
Act like Myrtle
event1942 star_border 6.5
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Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
In This Our Life
Act like Mother of Accident Victim (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.8
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An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Naked City
Act like Mrs. Rydecker (1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 5.5
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Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format.
In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
Studio One
(3 ep.)
event1948 star_border 4.7
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An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Act like The Duchess (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 8.7
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Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones.
The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Suspense
(1 ep.)
event1949 star_border 4.7
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An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.
The Chevy Mystery Show
Act like Julie McCormick (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6
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The Chevy Mystery Show is an American television anthology series featuring a different mystery each week that aired on NBC in 1960 as a summer replacement.
What's My Line?
Act like Self - Mystery Guest (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6.8
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Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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