Cleo Moore

Cleo Moore

Birth : 1924-10-31, Galvez, Lousiana

Death : 1973-10-25

History

Cleo Moore was an American actress, usually featured in the role of a blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s.

Profile

Cleo Moore

Movies

Hit and Run
Julie Hilmer
A garage owner marries a much younger woman. Trouble begins when he becomes friends with a man who has his eyes on his former-showgirl wife.
Over-Exposed
Lily Krenshka / Lila Crane
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
Hold Back Tomorrow
Dora
Suicidal hooker Cleo Moore agrees to spend the night with condemned prisoner John Agar in this Hugo Haas film noir.
Women's Prison
Mae
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
The Other Woman
Sherry Steward
Bit player Sherry Stewart gets miffed when director Walter Darman turns her down after she reads for a small part in his picture. She and her boy friend, Ronnie, devise a plan to lure Darman to her apartment, where she gives him a drugged drink. She tells Darman they had been intimate and blackmails him for $50,000. More than a little distracted by his situation, his wife senses something is wrong and he gets into a violent argument with his father-in-law who owns the producing company Darman works for, and discontinues the picture. Sherry informs Darman she is going to tell his wife all about them. Darman tells his secretary that he is going to work late and is not to be disturbed, sets the moviola runnings, and exits by the back door and hot-foots it to Sherry's apartment.
Bait
Peggy
A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them "in the act" and kill him without consequence.
Thy Neighbor's Wife
Lita Vojnar
In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who is bound with ropes to a wooden half-cross. He then tells her he'll kill her if he ever catches her being unfaithful. Things get tense when she falls for another man.
One Girl's Confession
Mary Adams
Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.
Strange Fascination
Margo
A homely middle-aged man falls hard for a much younger woman leading to disaster.
The Pace That Thrills
Ruby
Chills and spills in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing.
On Dangerous Ground
Myrna Bowers
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
Gambling House
Sally
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Hunt the Man Down
Pat Sheldon
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Rio Grande Patrol
Peppie
Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito, along with Mexican Captain Trevinom suspect them and they are trying to find the guns.
The Great Jewel Robber
Vivacious Blonde at Airport (uncredited)
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
711 Ocean Drive
Mal's Date (uncredited)
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
Bright Leaf
Cousin Louise (uncredited)
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Dynamite Pass
Lulu
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.
Congo Bill
Lureen / Ruth Culver
Congo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.