Joan Valerie

Joan Valerie

Birth : 1911-07-15, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA

Death : 1983-01-30

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Joan Valerie

Movies

Westward the Women
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
Roaring City
Irma Rand
A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
A Life of Her Own
Party Guest (uncredited)
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
Three Daring Daughters
Hostess (uncredited)
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Around the World
Countess Olga
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Government Girl
Miss Jane MacVickers (uncredited)
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Just Off Broadway
Rita Darling
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Phyllis Guerney
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Rio Rita
Dotty
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Marsha Gordon
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Murder Over New York
June Preston
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Lily Latimer
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge. The museum also houses a statue of Charlie. Frustrated number-two son kicks statue in rear; oops, number-two son wrong in his assumption
The Great Profile
Understudy
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Pier 13
Helen Kelly
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
Girl in 313
Francine Edwards
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell's Sister
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Free, Blonde and 21
Vickie
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Young as You Feel
Bonnie Jones
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Miss Norton
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Day-time Wife
Mrs. Dexter
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Tail Spin
Sunny
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Kentucky
Lucy Pemberton
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Road Demon
Joan Rogers
At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.
Submarine Patrol
Anne
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Safety in Numbers
Toni Stewart (replaced by Iva Stewart)
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
A Trip to Paris
Marguerite Varloff
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
Topa Topa
Margaret Weston (as Helen Hughes)
Tom Turner, a naturalist, comes to the "Topa Topa" district (named for the mountain), and falls in love with widow Margaret Weston...
The Old Barn Dance
Sally Dawson
Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date.
Sergeant Murphy
Bess Merrill (as Helen Valkis)
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
Missing Witnesses
Simpering Girl
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
It's Love I'm After
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
Confession
Wanda (as Helen Valkis)
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Talent Scout
Ruth - Secretary
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Blazing Sixes
Barbara Morgan
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
The Go-Getter
Skinner's secretary (as Helen Valkis)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
The Cherokee Strip
Ruth Valley
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
The Prince and the Pauper
Lady Jane Seymour
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Ready, Willing and Able
Switchboard Operator
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
East of Java
Stand In
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.