Renee Whitney

Renee Whitney

Birth : 1912-02-09, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Death : 1972-09-16

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Renee Whitney

Movies

Western Courage
Eric's Girl Friend
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to stop the elopement. The outlaw Lacrosse and his henchman then catch Ken without his guns, take off with Gloria, and leave a tied up Ken in a burning shack.
Elinor Norton
Publisher's Staff
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Counsel on De Fence
Antoinette 'Tony' Drake
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
Kansas City Princess
Mrs. 'Lovums' Ashcraft
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
Side Streets
Mabel Vernon
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
Return of the Terror
Virginia Mayo
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
The Circus Clown
Sympathetic Circus Girl
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
The Personality Kid
Party Guest
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Fog Over Frisco
Girl in Jake's Office (Uncredited)
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
The Merry Frinks
Babe (uncredited)
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Registered Nurse
Ethel Smith
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
Wonder Bar
(uncredited)
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.
Journal of a Crime
Woman Talking to Man at Play Party (uncredited)
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Jimmy the Gent
Bessie
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
I've Got Your Number
Loretta Kennedy
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Bedside
Mme. Varsova
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
Hi, Nellie!
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
The Big Shakedown
Mae LaRue
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
The House on 56th Street
Sextet Girl (uncredited)
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
Havana Widows
Showgirl Rejected by Gladys (uncredited)
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
The Kennel Murder Case
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Footlight Parade
Cynthia Kent
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.
Goodbye Again
Woman Buying Copy of 'Miriam' (uncredited)
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?
She Had to Say Yes
Customer Girl with Tommy and Birdie (uncredited)
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Tommy prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Tommy considers Florence a loose woman.
Baby Face
Office Worker (uncredited)
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Private Detective 62
Alice (Uncredited)
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.
Ex-Lady
Party Guest (uncredited)
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
Picture Snatcher
Connie Rowland (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
The Keyhole
Mrs. Smith - Cheating Wife (uncredited)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Under Eighteen
Model (uncredited)
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
The Wild Party
Janice Allen
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
Run, Girl, Run
Minor Role
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.