
Birthday:
01-18-1902
Deathday:
04-01-1992 (90 years)
Birthplace:
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
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The Strawberry Blonde
Act like Josephine
event1941 star_border 6.9
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Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
Purely an Accident
event1930
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A self-effacing prizefighter assumes a very different attitude once he hits the big time.
You're Telling Me
Act like Miss Ames
event1942
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Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
South of the Boudoir
Act like Hazel
event1940
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Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife. Meanwhile, the boss picks up Mrs. Chase and brings her as his dinner guest.
Sweet Surrender
event1935 star_border 5
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Anti-war propaganda musical set on an ocean liner.
The Great Man's Lady
Act like Bettina
event1941 star_border 6.3
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In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Flight at Midnight
Act like Josephine
event1939 star_border 4.5
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Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
So Proudly We Hail
Act like Lt. Elsie Bollenbacher
event1943 star_border 5.5
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During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Swingtime in the Movies
Act like Lorna an Actress
event1938 star_border 5.8
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In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
Hats Off
Act like Ginger Connolly
event1936 star_border 5
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The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw Jimmy off the track, Jo pretends to be a schoolteacher, but by the time the ruse has been revealed, the two leading characters have fallen in love.
Tee for Two
Act like Blonde Vocalist
event1932
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A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Act like Marie Templeton
event1939 star_border 6.6
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Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Youth Takes a Fling
Act like Girl
event1938 star_border 1
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McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Next Time I Marry
Act like Cynthia Bloomar
event1938 star_border 6.8
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Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
Of Mice and Men
Act like Susie
event1939 star_border 7.3
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An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
The Kid From Texas
Act like Mabel
event1939 star_border 6.5
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A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
Groom and Bored
Act like Dolly McGonigle
event1942
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Johnny tries to keep his marriage a secret from his boss, who feels that matrimony interferes with business.
Power Dive
Act like Mabel
event1941 star_border 4.6
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The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).
Kitty Foyle
Act like Girl in Elevator (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Lucky Partners
Act like Ethel
event1940 star_border 6
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Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
Road to Singapore
Act like Society Girl (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Success
Act like Molly
event1931
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Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ballplayer, but his eyesight keeps getting him into trouble. Elmer also needs a new pair of glasses.
Cafe Society
Act like Millie
event1939 star_border 6
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A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Melody in Spring
Act like Blonde in Washington's Bed
event1934 star_border 6
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It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.
Murder in the Air
Act like Dolly
event1940 star_border 4.6
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Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
There's That Woman Again
Act like Pearl
event1938 star_border 5
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Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.
Night in New Orleans
Act like Blonde Elevator Passenger (Uncredited)
event1942 star_border 4
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A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Here Comes Happiness
Act like Flo
event1941 star_border 5
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Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
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