Birthday:
03-06-1916
Deathday:
01-17-1972 (55 years)
Birthplace:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Biography
Rochelle Hudson (March 6, 1916 — January 17, 1972) was an American film actress from the 1930s through the 1960s. Hudson was a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1931.
The Oklahoma City-born actress began her career as a teenager. She had signed a contract with RKO Pictures on November 22, 1930, when she was 17 years old.
She may be best remembered today for costarring in Wild Boys of the Road (1933), playing Cosette in Les Misérables (1935), playing Mary Blair, the older sister of Shirley Temple's character in Curly Top, and for playing Natalie Wood's mother in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). During her peak years in the 1930s, notable roles for Hudson included: Richard Cromwell's love interest in the Will Rogers showcase Life Begins at 40 (1935), the daughter of carnival barker W. C. Fields in Poppy (1936) and Claudette Colbert's adult daughter in Imitation of Life (1934).
She played Sally Glynn, the fallen ingenue to whom Mae West imparts the immortal wisdom, "When a girl goes wrong, men go right after her!" in the 1933 Paramount film, She Done Him Wrong. In the 1954–1955 television season, Hudson co-starred with Gil Stratton and Eddie Mayehoff in the CBS situation comedy That's My Boy, based on a 1951 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin film of the same name.
The Oklahoma City-born actress began her career as a teenager. She had signed a contract with RKO Pictures on November 22, 1930, when she was 17 years old.
She may be best remembered today for costarring in Wild Boys of the Road (1933), playing Cosette in Les Misérables (1935), playing Mary Blair, the older sister of Shirley Temple's character in Curly Top, and for playing Natalie Wood's mother in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). During her peak years in the 1930s, notable roles for Hudson included: Richard Cromwell's love interest in the Will Rogers showcase Life Begins at 40 (1935), the daughter of carnival barker W. C. Fields in Poppy (1936) and Claudette Colbert's adult daughter in Imitation of Life (1934).
She played Sally Glynn, the fallen ingenue to whom Mae West imparts the immortal wisdom, "When a girl goes wrong, men go right after her!" in the 1933 Paramount film, She Done Him Wrong. In the 1954–1955 television season, Hudson co-starred with Gil Stratton and Eddie Mayehoff in the CBS situation comedy That's My Boy, based on a 1951 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin film of the same name.
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Rebel Without a Cause
Act like Judy's Mother
event1955 star_border 7.5
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After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
Bosko and Honey
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932
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An unreleased cartoon that eventually went on to have most of its animation recycled by Bosko's Dizzy Date. Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The pair sing and dance and play music while the kitten continues to express its disdain.
Judge Priest
Act like Virginia Maydew
event1934 star_border 6.4
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Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
I've Been Around
Act like Drue Waring
event1935 star_border 2.5
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Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
Bosko the Speed King
Act like Honey (voice)
event1933 star_border 6.4
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Bosko enters a road race.
Poppy
Act like Poppy
event1936 star_border 6.5
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Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.
Strait-Jacket
Act like Emily Cutler
event1964 star_border 6.6
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After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
The Night Walker
Act like Hilda
event1964 star_border 6.6
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A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Curly Top
Act like Mary Blair
event1935 star_border 6.4
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Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
The Officer and the Lady
Act like Helen Regan
event1941 star_border 6
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A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
She Done Him Wrong
Act like Sally
event1933 star_border 5.8
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New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Les Misérables
Act like Cosette
event1935 star_border 7.2
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In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Act like Victoria 'Vicki' Mason
event1938 star_border 5.8
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In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
Imitation of Life
Act like Jessie Pullman, Age 18
event1934 star_border 7
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A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Devil's Cargo
Act like Margo Delgado
event1948 star_border 5.5
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John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series.
Meet Boston Blackie
Act like Cecelia Bradley
event1941 star_border 6.3
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When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Wild Boys of the Road
Act like Grace
event1933 star_border 6.8
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At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Girls Under 21
Act like Frances White Ryan
event1940 star_border 4.5
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Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie White, and five of her friends. With the aid of her old boyfriend, she manages to divert them from their juvenile-delinquent path leading to disaster for each.
Doctor Bull
Act like Virginia (Muller)/Banning
event1933 star_border 6.5
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In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
Harold Teen
Act like Lillian 'Lillums' Lovewell
event1934 star_border 6
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A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Hell's Highway
Act like Mary Ellen
event1932 star_border 6.1
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A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
Gallery of Horror
Act like Helen Spalding
event1967 star_border 4.5
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John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock," the Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts and are warned by the town doctor of the history of witches in the community. The second story, "King of the Vampires," deals with a slight-figured killer called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he ODs on his experimental drug. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein. "Count Alucard" is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up.
Bachelor Bait
Act like Cynthia Douglas
event1934 star_border 5.7
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After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Island of Doomed Men
Act like Lorraine Danel
event1940 star_border 5.4
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An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
The Mighty Barnum
Act like Ellen
event1934 star_border 0.5
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20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
Big Man from the North
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 4.9
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Bosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a peg-legged villain wanted dead or alive.
Ride Him, Bosko
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.9
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Ride Him, Bosko! is a western-flavored cartoon with lots of shooting gags involving body reduction, and card characters singing! There's also an alcohol gag that has a really strong one turning a male piano player into a woman instantly!
Bosko's Picture Show
Act like Honey
event1933 star_border 6.1
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Bosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.
Bosko in Person
Act like Honey
event1933 star_border 5.2
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Bosko and Honey perform a wacky stage act that includes doing imitations of Maurice Chevalier, Greta Garbo and Jimmy Durante.
Convicted Woman
Act like Betty Andrews
event1940 star_border 3.7
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A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
Men Without Souls
Act like Suzan Leonard
event1940 star_border 6
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A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
Secrets of the French Police
Act like Undercover Agent K-31 (bit)
event1932 star_border 6
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A burglar is recruited by the French Surete to help find his kidnapped girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by a deranged White Russian to impersonate the missing Princess Anastasia Romanoff while under his hypnotic spell.
That I May Live
event1937 star_border 6.5
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Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
Show Them No Mercy!
Act like Loretta Martin
event1935 star_border 7
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A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
Babies for Sale
Act like Ruth Williams
event1940 star_border 5.5
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A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
Notorious But Nice
Act like Constance Martin
event1933 star_border 5.5
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A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
Life Begins at Forty
Act like Adele Anderson
event1935
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A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Way Down East
Act like Anna Moore
event1935 star_border 3
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A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Are These Our Children?
Act like Mary
event1931 star_border 6
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A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
Born Reckless
Act like Sybil Roberts
event1937 star_border 5.5
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Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
Sky Liner
Act like Amy Winthrop
event1949 star_border 5
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Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
Mr. Skitch
Act like Emily Skitch
event1933 star_border 6
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After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Hold Anything
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 5.3
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Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
Lucky Devils
Act like Visitor
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Bosko the Lumberjack
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 4.6
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Bosko and his friends are cutting down trees in a forest. He battles a burly woodsman named Pierre who has gone off and kidnapped his beloved Honey.
Scarlet River
Act like Herself (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 4.5
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Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
Walls of Gold
Act like Joan Street
event1933
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A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.
Beyond the Rockies
Act like Betty Allen
event1932 star_border 5.5
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A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
The Country Beyond
Act like Jean Alison
event1936
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A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
Reunion
Act like Mary MacKenzie
event1936
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Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Act like Judith Hadley
event1939
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A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the farmer's property. Western drama.
The Savage Girl
Act like The Girl
event1932 star_border 3.2
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An intoxicated millionaire commissions an expedition to Africa. A white jungle goddess falls in love with the millionaire's daring consort, incurring the wrath of the jungle itself.
Bush Pilot
Act like Hilary Ward
event1947 star_border 4.7
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Two pilots, who happen to be half-brothers, compete for the same girl as well as the same air cargo assignment.
Pirates of the Skies
event1939
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Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
How Do I Know It's Sunday
Act like Various
event1934 star_border 5.3
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Inside a general store, the products all come to life and happily sing the title song. An Eskimo falls for a cookie and has to come to the rescue when a swarm of flies invades.
The Public Defender
Act like Telephone Operator
event1931 star_border 6
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A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Sinkin' in the Bathtub
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 5.7
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The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on its hind feet to perform a dance.
Everything’s Rosie
Act like Lowe Party Guest by Punch Bowl
event1931 star_border 4
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A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Fanny Foley Herself
Act like Carmen
event1931
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A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
Smuggled Cargo
Act like Marian Franklin
event1939
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When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
Bosko's Soda Fountain
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 4.6
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Bosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later, he must contend with Honey's bratty kitten pupil.
Dumb Patrol
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6.2
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During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle.
Battling Bosko
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.3
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Bosko is a brave little boxer who battles the champion, Gas House Harry. The enormous brute proves a bit much, even for a plucky underdog.
Bosko's Holiday
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 5.1
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Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly.
Yodeling Yokels
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 4.6
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Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps until a series of disasters end with Honey rushing downriver on an ice floe.
Bosko at the Zoo
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 4
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Bosko and Honey go to the zoo. Honey is frightened by the lion, but Bosko is the one who ends up in danger.
Bosko the Drawback
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 3
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Bosko is the star player in a wacky game of professional football.
Bosko's Dog Race
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.4
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Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.
Bosko at the Beach
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5
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Bosko, Honey, and Bruno spend a day at the beach.
Bosko's Dizzy Date
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 3.5
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Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The pair sing and dance and play music while the kitten continues to express its disdain.
Bosko's Store
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.4
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Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.
Bosko in Dutch
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 3.6
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Set on a frozen pond in Holland, various animals attempt to skate on the slippery ice.
Bosko's Party
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.4
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Bosko whistles "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo" as he walks down the sidewalk in the pouring rain. His umbrella provides a good sailboat when he wants to cross a flooded street. Meanwhile, Honey is getting dressed and made up. She's about to remove her nightgown when she realizes that we in the audience are watching her. She goes behind a modesty screen, but the mirror reveals all to us. Bosko arrives at Honey's place and one of her friends opens the door. Little does she know that several of her friends are downstairs waiting to surprise her. This is Honey's birthday. Honey's little yapping dog causes trouble before and during the party. Worse trouble comes from her pupil--a little kitten who hides underneath a flowerpot and can't get out from under it. When he finally does, he causes a minor catastrophe.
Bosko's Parlor Pranks
Act like Honey (voice) (uncredited)
event1934
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Bosko keeps Wilbur occupied with tales of his past exploits while Honey steps out on an errand.
Bosko's Easter Eggs
Act like Honey
event1937
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A Happy Harmonie with Bosko.
Pride of the Navy
Act like Gloria Tyler
event1939
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A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
Rascals
Act like Margaret Adams
event1938 star_border 6
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A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
The Stork Pays Off
Act like Irene Perry
event1941
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Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry. All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.
Missing Daughters
Act like Kay Roberts
event1939 star_border 3
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The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
Rubber Racketeers
Act like Nikki
event1942 star_border 4.3
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Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
Such Women Are Dangerous
Act like Vernie Little
event1934
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An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
Queen of Broadway
Act like Sherry Baker
event1942 star_border 5
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There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen of Broadway. Instead, this sentimental B-picture is the story of a gambler (Rochelle Hudson), who tries to clean up her act and adopt an orphan (Donald Mayo).
Storm Over Bengal
Act like Joan Lattimore
event1938 star_border 5.2
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This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.
Is My Face Red?
Act like Newlywed Bride on Leviathon (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5
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William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
The Past of Mary Holmes
Act like Betty
event1933
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Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
A Woman is the Judge
Act like Justine West
event1939
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Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met. As luck would have it, the presiding judge at Justine's trial is none other than Mary Cabot.
Circus Daze
Act like Honey (voice)
event1937
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Bosko and Honey, at the circus.
The Music Goes 'Round
Act like Susanna Courtney
event1936
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Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from Broadway, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without letting them in on the joke, he then features them in a new revue, hoping that unintentionally-funny act will bring the house down.
Penguin Pool Murder
Act like Telephone Operator
event1932 star_border 5.6
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New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
She Had to Eat
Act like Ann Garrison
event1937 star_border 5
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An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Woman-Wise
Act like Alice Fuller
event1937
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A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Laugh and Get Rich
Act like Miss Jones - at Dance (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 4.7
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An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Everybody's Old Man
Act like Cynthia Sampson
event1936
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An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.
77 Sunset Strip
(1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 6.7
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Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Act like Polly Grover (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Branded
(3 ep.)
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Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation of cowardice.
Racket Squad
(1 ep.)
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Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department.
The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
I'm the Law
(1 ep.)
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I'm the Law is the title of a 30-minute syndicated American television police drama series which aired in 1953 starring George Raft as Lt. George Kirby, a NYPD detective involved in solving a variety of crimes in New York City.
The series first aired on February 13, 1953 and ended on July 31, 1953.
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