Birthday:
05-17-1896
Deathday:
11-17-1982 (86 years)
Birthplace:
North Trenton - New Jersey - USA
Biography
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Ruth Donnelly (May 17, 1896 – November 17, 1982) was an American stage and film actress. Her father was the mayor of Trenton, New Jersey.
She began her stage career at the age of 17 in 1913, in The Quaker Girl. Her Broadway debut brought her to the attention of George M. Cohan, who proceeded to cast her in numerous comic-relief roles in such musicals as Going Up (1917). Though she made her first film appearance in 1913, her Hollywood career began in earnest in 1931 and lasted until 1957. In her films she often played the wife of Guy Kibbee (Footlight Parade, Wonder Bar, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington). Among her roles was the part of Sister Michael in The Bells of St. Mary's, starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.
Ruth Donnelly (May 17, 1896 – November 17, 1982) was an American stage and film actress. Her father was the mayor of Trenton, New Jersey.
She began her stage career at the age of 17 in 1913, in The Quaker Girl. Her Broadway debut brought her to the attention of George M. Cohan, who proceeded to cast her in numerous comic-relief roles in such musicals as Going Up (1917). Though she made her first film appearance in 1913, her Hollywood career began in earnest in 1931 and lasted until 1957. In her films she often played the wife of Guy Kibbee (Footlight Parade, Wonder Bar, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington). Among her roles was the part of Sister Michael in The Bells of St. Mary's, starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Emma Hopper
event1939 star_border 7.9
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Act like Self
event1936 star_border 6
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A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Act like Mabel Dawson
event1936 star_border 7.5
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Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Hands Across the Table
Act like Laura
event1935 star_border 6.8
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A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
The Bells of St. Mary's
Act like Sister Michael
event1945 star_border 6.8
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Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
Petticoat Politics
Act like Lil Higgins
event1941
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Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
Jewel Robbery
Act like Berta, Teri's Maid (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.5
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A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
A Slight Case of Murder
Act like Nora Marko
event1938 star_border 6.1
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Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Footlight Parade
Act like Mrs. Harriet Gould
event1933 star_border 6.9
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A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
The Secret of Convict Lake
Act like Mary Fancher
event1951 star_border 6.6
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After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.
My Little Chickadee
Act like Aunt Lou
event1940 star_border 6.5
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While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Autumn Leaves
Act like Liz Eckhart
event1956 star_border 7
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A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
A Lawless Street
Act like Molly Higgins
event1955 star_border 5.4
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A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
Blessed Event
Act like Miss Stevens
event1932 star_border 6.5
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A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
This Is the Army
Act like Mrs. O'Brien
event1943 star_border 5.7
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In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Employees' Entrance
Act like Miss Hall, Anderson's secretary
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
The Snake Pit
Act like Ruth
event1948 star_border 7.1
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Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Act like Martha
event1950 star_border 7.2
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A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Act like Glory White
event1951 star_border 6.6
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A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
Private Detective 62
Act like Amy Moran
event1933 star_border 6
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A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
The Ghost Goes Wild
Act like Aunt Susan Beecher
event1947 star_border 5
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Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
Female
Act like Miss Frothingham
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Lilly Turner
Act like Edna Yokum
event1933 star_border 5.6
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One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Merry Wives of Reno
Act like Lois
event1934 star_border 4.8
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Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
You Belong to Me
Act like Emma
event1941 star_border 5.8
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A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
The Affairs of Annabel
Act like Josephine
event1938 star_border 4
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Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
Pillow to Post
Act like Mrs. Grace Wingate
event1945 star_border 5.5
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With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
Alibi Ike
Act like Bess
event1935 star_border 5.8
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Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Wonder Bar
Act like Emma Simpson
event1934 star_border 6.2
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Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Personal Maid's Secret
Act like Lizzie
event1935 star_border 5.5
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A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
Ever in My Heart
Act like Lizzie
event1933 star_border 5.3
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World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
Sing, Sinner, Sing
Act like Margaret 'Maggie' Flannigan
event1933 star_border 4
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A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Act like Effie Perkins
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
The Wild Blue Yonder
Act like Maj. Ida Winton
event1951 star_border 6
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Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.
Cain and Mabel
Act like Aunt Mimi
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
Housewife
Act like Dora Wilson
event1934 star_border 7.6
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Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Act like Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1983 star_border 6.5
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Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
More Than a Secretary
Act like Helen Davis
event1936 star_border 6.4
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When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Maybe It's Love
Act like Florrie Sands
event1935 star_border 6
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Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Army Girl
Act like Leila Kennett
event1938 star_border 6
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A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
The Fabulous Texan
Act like Utopia Mills
event1947 star_border 4
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A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
The White Cockatoo
Act like Mrs. Byng
event1935 star_border 5.3
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In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
The Way to the Gold
Act like Mrs. Williams
event1957
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Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village.
Just Around the Corner
Act like Mrs. Sears
event1933 star_border 6
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Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.
Goodbye Again
Act like Richview Hotel Maid
event1933 star_border 5
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Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
Havana Widows
Act like Mrs. Emily Jones
event1933 star_border 5.8
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Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
13 Hours by Air
Act like Vi Johnson
event1936 star_border 4.3
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Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
Convention City
Act like Mrs. Ellerbe
event1933 star_border 3.5
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Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
Personal Secretary
Act like Grumpy
event1938
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Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Mandalay
Act like Mrs. George Peters
event1934 star_border 5.9
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Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Hard to Handle
Act like Lil Waters
event1933 star_border 6.6
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A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Scatterbrain
Act like Miss Stevens
event1940
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A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Annabel Takes a Tour
Act like Josephine
event1938 star_border 5
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Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. The trip proceeds with a flurry of Morgan's crazy, slapstick publicity stunts. Then Annabel has her chance to "bag" a real Viscount.
Cross My Heart
Act like Eve Harper
event1946
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A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
Fighting Father Dunne
Act like Kate Mulvey
event1948 star_border 6
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A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
The Spider
Act like Mrs. Wimbledon
event1931 star_border 6
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Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
Fatal Lady
Act like Melba York
event1936
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On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Happiness Ahead
Act like Anna
event1934 star_border 6
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Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
The Family Next Door
Act like Mrs. Rose Pierce
event1939 star_border 5.2
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Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
Heat Lightning
Act like Mrs. Ashton-Ashley
event1934 star_border 6.8
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A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Cinderella Jones
Act like Cora Elliot
event1946 star_border 3.3
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Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Ladies They Talk About
Act like Noonan
event1933 star_border 6.1
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A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
Portia on Trial
Act like Jane Wilkins
event1937 star_border 5.3
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Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
The Gay Vagabond
Act like Kate Dixon
event1941
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Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
Sailors on Leave
Act like Aunt Navy
event1941
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If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
Traveling Saleslady
Act like Mrs. Twitchell
event1935 star_border 5.9
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A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Song and Dance Man
Act like Patsy O'Madigan
event1936
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Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
The Roundup
Act like Polly Hope
event1941 star_border 8
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Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
Make Me a Star
Act like The Countess
event1932 star_border 5.5
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A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Bureau of Missing Persons
Act like Gwendolyn 'Pete' Harris
event1933 star_border 5.6
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Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Red Salute
Act like Mrs. Edith Rooney
event1935 star_border 5.8
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The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
Meet the Girls
Act like Daisy Watson
event1938 star_border 4.5
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Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
In Old Sacramento
Act like Zebby Booker
event1946 star_border 6
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Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
The Spoilers
Act like Duchess
event1955 star_border 4.8
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In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
Model Wife
Act like Mrs. Milo Everett
event1941
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Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Little Miss Broadway
Act like Minerva Van Dorn
event1947
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Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
Meet the Missus
Act like Lil Higgins
event1940
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Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
Breakdowns of 1944
Act like Self
event1944 star_border 6.5
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.
Roaring Timber
Act like Aunt Mary
event1937 star_border 5
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Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
Johnny Doughboy
Act like Biggy Biggsworth
event1942 star_border 5.5
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As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
Act like Herself
event1933
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The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.
Wicked
Act like Fanny
event1931 star_border 4.7
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Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
Rise and Shine
Act like Mame Bacon
event1941 star_border 6
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The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
Romance in the Rain
Act like Miss Sparks
event1934
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The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Sleepy Lagoon
Act like Sarah Rogers
event1943 star_border 4.5
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Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
The Rainbow Trail
Act like Widow Abigail
event1932
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The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
Millie's Daughter
Act like Helen Reilly
event1947 star_border 1
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An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Act like Nurse Hamilton
event1943 star_border 6.1
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An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Rubber Heels
Act like Fanny Pratt
event1927
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A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
Cavalcade of America
Act like Ma Dolan (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 3.5
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Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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