Joan Winfield

Joan Winfield

Birth : 1918-09-24, Melbourne, Australia

Death : 1978-06-16

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Joan Winfield

Movies

The Egyptian
Governess
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
The Jazz Singer
Nurse
As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.
Queen for a Day
Laura
Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.
Johnny Belinda
Mrs. Tim Moore (uncredited)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Wallflower
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
Always Together
Alice (uncredited)
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
The Unfaithful
Bill Girl
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
The Imperfect Lady
Lucy
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
A Stolen Life
Lucy
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
Mildred Pierce
Piano Teacher (uncredited)
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Make Your Own Bed
Whirtle's Secretary
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
Mr. Skeffington
Nurse (uncredited)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Murder on the Waterfront
Gloria Davis
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
Mission to Moscow
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
The Gorilla Man
Mrs. Ellen Tanner
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
Gentleman Jim
Actress (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
I Was Framed
Nurse
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
The Male Animal
Student (uncredited)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
Dangerously They Live
Nurse (uncredited)
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Bullets for O'Hara
Marjorie Palmer
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.