Birthday:
09-02-1896
Deathday:
08-24-1967 (70 years)
Birthplace:
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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The Black Network
Act like Mezzanine Johnson
event1936 star_border 6
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The owner of a shoe polish company sponsors a radio show that showcases black performers. Since his wife's father put up the money to be the sponsor, she insists on singing on the show. She goes on after the main star, singer Nina Mae McKinney. The wife sings so badly that the sponsor's customers abandon him. He is forced to shine shoes on street corners, while Nina Mae and her boyfriend win a bet on a daily number and end up on easy street.
Eggs Don't Bounce
Act like Mandy (uncredited)
event1944
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Lulu fears getting into trouble after accidentally breaking the eggs she was told to get on her way home.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Act like Marian
event1967
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Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world.
Lying Lips
Act like Matron
event1939 star_border 4.8
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A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.
Pocketful of Miracles
Act like Annie's Neighbor (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 7.3
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A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Bomba and the Jungle Girl
Act like Linasi
event1952 star_border 5.3
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Bomba decides to find out who his parents were. He starts with Cody Casson's diary and follows the trail to a native village. An ancient blind woman tells him his parents and the village's true ruler were murdered by the current chieftain and his daughter.
She's Working Her Way Through College
Act like Maybelle (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 5.1
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Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.
Swing!
Act like Liza Freeman
event1938 star_border 5
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Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
Comes Midnight
event1940
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Two men will receive $100 if they stay in Old Man Mose’s deserted house overnight in order to dig up his body and get the gold that has been placed under his body, and return it to the rightful owner.
The Last Challenge
Act like Sally (uncredited)
event1967 star_border 6.3
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An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.
Mister Scoutmaster
Act like Savannah, the Maid
event1953 star_border 6.5
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Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.
The Notorious Elinor Lee
Act like Mary's mother
event1940 star_border 4
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Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
Paul Revere, Jr.
Act like Revere's Maid
event1933
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A drunken fool by the name of Paul Revere Wilson (or Williams or something) drinks too much and imagines himself living in 1776.
No Way Out
Act like Gladys (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.9
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Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
Cabin in the Sky
Act like Churchgoer (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.4
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When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
That Girl
(1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6.2
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That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.
Perry Mason
Act like Grace - Maid (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 7.7
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The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
The Danny Thomas Show
Act like Louise (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6
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Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.
Amos 'n' Andy
Act like Mamma (52 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7.5
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A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.
The Thin Man
(1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 7.6
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Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.
Make Room for Granddaddy
(1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 5
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Make Room for Granddaddy is a sequel to the American TV series The Danny Thomas Show (also known as Make Room for Daddy). The series aired for one season on ABC between September 1970 and March 1971.
The New Breed
Act like Mattie (1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 7
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The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes.
CBS Playhouse
(1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 7
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CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series was nominated for a number of awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.
Letter to Loretta
Act like Lulu (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6.2
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Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes.
Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Act like Cora (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.2
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series.
Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong.
The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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