Jean Willes

Jean Willes

Birth : 1923-04-15, Los Angeles, California, USA

Death : 1989-01-03

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Jean Willes
Jean Willes

Movies

Bite the Bullet
Rosie
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
The Cheyenne Social Club
Alice
Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.
Gypsy
Miss Cratchitt
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Gun Street
Joan Brady
In this movie filmed and released in 1961 (and not a 1962 production), an escaped convict returns to town and begins a reign of terror. Marked for death are Dr. Dean Knudtson, his wife Janice, formerly married to the killer, and Jeff Baxley, on whose testimony the man was originally sent to prison. Sheriff Charles Morton and deputy Sam Freed head a posse tracking down the killer in the desert. The man is found dead of the wounds inflicted by a prison guard trying to prevent his escape. The sheriff resigns his job and heads west with Joan. Written by Les Adams
By Love Possessed
Junie McCarthy
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
The Crowded Sky
Gloria Panawek
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a commercial jet piloted by Dick Barnett, whose plane is full of passengers, Heath can't tell which way to turn in order to avoid a catastrophe.
Ocean's Eleven
Mrs. Bergdorf
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
The Slowest Gun in the West
Kathy McQueen
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
The FBI Story
Anna Sage
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
These Thousand Hills
Jen
A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.
No Time for Sergeants
WAF Captain
Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will? In No Time for Sergeants, Andy Griffith is certifiably funny in the role that clinched his stardom. Wearing a friendly, wide grin, he ambles into the U.S. Air Force – and lots of folks’ll never be the same.
Desire Under the Elms
Florence Cabot
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early graves. Most bitter is Eben, whose mother had owned most of the farm, and who feels who should be sole heir. When the old man brings home a new wife, Anna, she becomes a fierce contender to inherit the farm. Two of the sons leave when Eben gives them the fare in return for their shares of the farm. Meanwhile, Anna tries to cause some sparks by rubbing up against Eben.
Hear Me Good
Rita Hall
Comedy involving a beauty contest that has two pre-chosen winners; one the special girlfriend of a not too savory character, the other, the true love of the promoter.
The Tijuana Story
Liz March
Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.
Hell on Devil's Island
Suzanne
An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Tracy
A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves as the prison's chief staffers, to keep themselves alive and free from an insidious petrification, which is already afflicting one of their number.
The King and Four Queens
Ruby McDade
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Gladys
In 1941, prostitute Mamie Stover (Jane Russell) has no choice but to flee San Francisco when the police turn on her and want her out of town. Figuring Hawaii would be a great place to begin anew, Stover books a trip aboard a Honolulu-bound boat, where she happens to meet writer Jim Blair (Richard Egan), who is quite taken with the former streetwalker. However, when the ship reaches Hawaii, Stover soon falls back into her old ways and begins working at a nightclub, much to Blair's dismay.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Nurse Sally Withers
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Joan Sweeney
TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life with a young wife, Katy. A letter from the war department arrives that Katy believes is calling Greg back to active duty from the Air Force reserve, but she hides it during a party celebrating their wedding anniversary.
He Took a Powder
Wally leaves his wife.
Bobby Ware Is Missing
Janet Ware
This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish search for their son. The police are contacted, and a ransom letter is received.
5 Against the House
Virginia
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Nobody's Home
The boys unknowingly purchase the same house.
Gypped in the Penthouse
Jane
Larry and Shemp reminisce about their experiences with Jean, a diamond crazy gold digger each of them was gypped by. After telling their stories, they have a run in with Moe, who is now married to the same women. When Jean shows up, they deliver some stooge-style revenge.
His Pest Friend
The boys install a television aerial.
Bowery to Bagdad
Melody, alias "Claire Culpepper"
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
Masterson of Kansas
Dallas Corey
Western lawman Bat Masterson sets out to prove a man standing trial for murder is innocent.
A Star Is Born
Fan at a Benefit Show (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
The Glass Web
Sonia
The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry, who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show "Crime of the Week", which Don writes for. When Henry fails to help her to a role, she insults him deadly... and ends up dead herself. Now Don desperately tries to hide his traces, but Henry sabotages his efforts and suggests he write the unsolved murder case for next week's show...
From Here to Eternity
Annette (uncredited)
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Run for the Hills
Prancer Veach
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Capt. Olivia
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
All Ashore
Rose
Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
The Sniper
Woman Exiting Bar
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
A Yank in Indo-China
Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land
Denise
Jungle Jim is forced to lead anthropologist Dr. Edwards into a land inhabited by giant people.
The First Time
Fawn Wallace
A married couple welcomes their first child.
A Fool and His Honey
Wally's Wife
Wally suspects Eddie of having more than a friendly interest in Wally's wife, and his suspicions, he thinks, are confirmed when he finds Eddie in his apartment. Eddie has a logical reason for being there, but Wally won't listen and the chase is on.
The Champs Step Out
Miss Pearson
In the third of four shorts in this series, two ex-prizefighters, Max Baer and Maxie Rosenbloom, are hired by an archaeologist, Professor Bentley, to guard a million dollars worth of antiques and relics in his home. During the night, each makes a play for the professor's secretary, Miss Pearson, who is working for a gang of crooks planning to rob the place. She slips them a mickey-finn but they come to soon enough to catch the crooks and save the relics.
Hula-La-La
Luana
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
The Family Secret
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
Don't Throw That Knife
Lucy Wyckoff
The stooges become census takers and wind up in the apartment of a lady whose husband is both jealous and a knife thrower. When the husband arrives home, the boys try to hide, but are discovered, and after dodging some knives, leave on the run.
He Flew the Shrew
Comedy short.
Revenue Agent
Marge King
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
A Snitch in Time
Miss Gladys Scudder
The stooges are carpenters who are re-staining some furniture they've delivered to a boarding house. The plot gets complicated when the boys confront some crooks who are hiding out there. They defeat the bad guys with the help of the varnished furniture which sticks the head crook to a chair.
House About It
Wally and his family and Eddie and his family all wind up living in the same house. Complications ensue.
His Baiting Beauty
Ethel Dunkel
Harry has to leave town on a business trip to take part in the opening of a new radio station. However, his wife suspects that he is actually going to meet another woman.
Let Down Your Aerial
Eddie buys a new TV set and Wally offers to help him put up his roof antenna.
Chinatown at Midnight
Alice
A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a lady friend who operates an antique shop gets mixed up in a twisted murder plot.
The Winner's Circle
Jean Trent
A Thoroughbred makes the long journey from initial training and workout to ultimate triumph as a champion horse.
Hectic Honeymoon
Ruth Jones
Sterling works as a woman's hosiery salesman, and marries one of the office secretaries only to find out that his boss has just decided that anyone in his employ that gets married will be fired. His antics to keep his wife and his boss apart leads to troubles on both fronts.
Blondie in the Dough
Miss Marsh, Thorpe's Secretary (uncredited)
Blondie #21: Blondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series based on the popular comic strip. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
Down to Earth
Betty
Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show's producer and he incorporates her changes into the show. Unfortunately, her changes also produce a major flop.
Bride and Gloom
Sally (as Jean Donahue)
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
The Scooper Dooper
Betty Parker
A young man who wants desperately to become a newspaper reporter decides he can cinch his career by exposing a suspected diamond smuggler.
Slappily Married
Customer (uncredited)
Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.
Honeymoon Blues
Peggy Dawson
Immediately after his wedding, Hugh's boss comes to him with an important job - he is to ingratiate himself with an important client's mistress and retrieve some incriminating love letters.
Monkey Businessmen
Nurse Shapely
The stooges are bumbling electricians who decide to go away for a rest after they are fired for their incompetence. The rest home they choose is run by Dr. Mallard, a quack who gyps the patients for everything they've got. When the boys discover the crooked goings on they escape, but not before Curly accidentally cures another patient who rewards him with a thousand dollars.
Ain't Love Cuckoo?
Cuckoo Narrator (voice)
Gus Shilling and Richard Lane are two GIs serving overseas, following WWII, and they get word that their wives, also in the U. S. military service, are missing. Meanwhile, the two wives get the same information about the husband of each. Time passes, and Gus, the widower, meets Richard's wife, the widow, and vice-versa and Gus marries Richard's wife and Richard marries Gus's wife, and all is well until they go on their honeymoons and stay at the same hotel.
Salty O'Rourke
The Other Girl (uncredited)
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
So Proudly We Hail
Lt. Carol Johnson
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.
Beautiful Clothes
Model
Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.