Gloria Holden
Nacimiento : 1903-09-05, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1991-03-22
Historia
From Wikipedia
Gloria Anna Holden (September 5, 1903 – March 22, 1991) was an English-born American film actress, best known for her 1936 role as Dracula's Daughter in the film of the same title.
Mrs. Dover
Un maduro actor de teatro contrata como asistenta a una muchacha de la que se ha enamorado.
Mrs. Duchin
Biografía del famoso pianista Eddy Duchin. El éxito de las orquestas en los salones de baile y en los casinos, ya en franca decadencia, renace gracias a Eddy Duchin (Tyrone Power), un excepcional pianista que deslumbró a Nueva York en los años 30 y 40.
Mrs. Jean Landwell
Clemson Reade, que detesta que las mujeres trabajen, rompe su relación con Effie, una funcionaria del departamento de Estado que, demasiado ocupada con la crisis del petróleo, no tiene tiempo para el matrimonio. Entonces se acuerda de la princesa Tarji, a la que conoció durante un viaje a Bukistán y que, desde niña, ha aprendido el arte de complacer a los hombres. Reade decide pedirla en matrimonio mediante un telegrama. A causa de la crisis del petróleo, el departamento de Estado se inmiscuye en el asunto y le encarga a Effie que controle a su ex prometido.
Clarissa Pennock
Un anciano millonario sin familia, que pretende dejar toda su fortuna a los descendientes de una novia suya que lo rechazó, se traslada a la localidad donde residen para comprobar cómo viven sus futuros herederos.
Mrs. Janet Archer
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
Louise Cannon
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
Mrs. Ferris
Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job.
Mrs. Laura McCoy
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
Mrs. Kimberly
Un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial decide dedicarse por su cuenta al mundo de la publicidad, pero ve difícil compatibilizar el éxito con la integridad moral.
Mrs. Jane Canford
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Mrs. McDonnell (uncredited)
Biografía sobre la enfermera Elisabeth Kenny, que consiguió notoriedad por sus revolucionarios tratamientos para la parálisis infantil tras su experiencia en los campos australianos con pacientes con polio.
Mimi Valdez
An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.
Miss Nelson
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.
Louise Hover
Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.
Phyllis Gray (as Anje Berens)
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Mrs. Jean Stevenson
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Sara Braden
Tras haber estudiado en los Estados Unidos, un ingeniero japonés vuelve a su país, poco antes de que estalle la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuando comienza la guerra, se alista en el ejército y su simpatía por el mundo occidental cambia por completo.
Mrs. James V. Thorne
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Mrs. White
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Miss Clark
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
Beulah Anderson aka Beulah Binvicko
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
Countess Franchi
El conde Franchi tiene dos hijos gemelos. Cuando el barón Colonna decide exterminar a la familia Franchi, el doctor Paoli escapa con los dos bebés.
Madame Wrangell
In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.
Genevieve Hooper
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
Mrs. Kempner
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Madame Rapport
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Mrs. Cole
Kansas, 1866. Wade Hatton intenta imponer el orden y la justicia en Dodge City, una próspera ciudad a la que llega el ferrocarril, pero que está dominada por un cacique y su banda de pistoleros. En su empeño le ayuda Abby Irving, la sobrina del médico local.
Miss Laurel
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
Mrs. May Benson
Jim es un piloto de pruebas. Tanto su mujer Ann como su mejor amigo Gunner intentan que vuele con prudencia, pero la vida de esta clase de pilotos es cualquier cosa menos segura.
Mrs. Milburn
After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks
Marian Morgan
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
Alexandrine Zola
Biografía del famoso escritor francés Emile Zola, que incide especialmente en su participación en el famoso "Caso Dreyfuss", que puso en jaque al ejército francés.
Countess Marya Zaleska
Por vez primera cambia el sexo del vampiro en la historia del cine. La condesa Marya Zaleska, miembro de la elite londinense, no es más que la hija del famoso aristócrata transilvano; lo cual nos es revelado a mitad del (breve) metraje, aunque sus afición al esoterismo y la brujería -y, por supuesto, el título- nos hacían sospechar ya dicha filiación.
Joan Carstairs
Van Stanhope (Clark Gable) depende totalmente de su secretaria Whitey Wilson (Jean Harlow), a la que ve a todas horas para tratar de los asuntos de la empresa. Esto y sus constantes viajes de negocios hacen que pase muy poco tiempo con su esposa Linda (Mirna Loy), que no alberga la más mínima sospecha hasta que su suegra (May Robson) hace que empiece a desconfiar de su marido.