Beatrice Roberts
Nacimiento : 1905-03-07, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1970-07-24
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Alice Beatrice Roberts (March 7, 1905 – July 24, 1970) was an American film actress. She was briefly married to the cartoonist and showman Robert L. Ripley and a mistress of Louis B. Mayer.
She married Robert Ripley at age 14 on October 31, 1919, about the time he invented his Believe It or Not cartoon strip. The marriage was short lived—they separated three months later and were divorced in 1926. Ripley never spoke about the marriage, calling himself a "confirmed bachelor".
After her marriage, Roberts entered several beauty pageants including the 1924 and 1925 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey (as Miss Manhattan, 1924, and Miss Greater New York, 1925). She won the "Most Beautiful Girl in Evening Gown" award each time.
She went to Hollywood in 1933 and between then and 1946, she appeared in nearly 60 films, including Tall Timber (1937) and Love Takes Flight (also 1937), in which she starred opposite Bruce Cabot. Many of her roles were small and uncredited. Her most notable role was that of Queen Azura in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, a 1938 serial.
She was a mistress to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer in 1935 and 1936, while under contract to his company. In the 1940s, Roberts married John Wesley Smith.
Her last movie contract was with Universal, and her final appearances were in Criss-Cross and Family Honeymoon. Her acting career never becoming the success she had dreamed of, she left Hollywood in 1949. She died in Plymouth, Massachusetts from pneumonia, aged 65.
Nurse (uncredited)
Un olvidado de la bienaventura (Burt Lancaster) regresa a la ciudad natal, donde busca sin quererlo a su exposa (Yvonne de Carlo), que ahora se halla saliendo con un conocido gángster (Dan Duryea). La manipulativa mujer y el criminal se relamen cuando Lancaster propone el gran golpe: asaltar el carro blindado que él mismo va a conducir..
Maid (Uncredited)
La indecisa heredera Dee Dee Dillwood es empujada a casarse con su novio, pero incapaz de enfrentarse a la noche de bodas, ella se escabulle en el hotel a la habitación de al lado donde se aloja el piloto comercial Marvin Payne, que lo único que quiere es dormir. De alguna manera, ella le convence para que la lleve a California. Sus compañeros de viaje incluyen un chimpancé, un cadáver (en un ataúd), un estafador fugado y dos recién casados.
Dorothy
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Mother
Durante sus vacaciones en el Caribe, un hombre casado, que sale un día de pesca, captura una sirena y se la lleva a su casa.
Nurse (Uncredited)
Basada en la vida real de Betty MacDonald, que es encarnada por Colbert. Una mujer de ciudad accede a ayudar a su marido (MacMurray) a cumplir su sueño de tener un granja y, para ello, procurará adaptarse a las inevitables dificultades de la vida en el campo.
Nurse (uncredited)
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
Marie (uncredited)
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
Nurse (uncredited)
Una vez terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Swede Lunn, un soldado veterano y boxeador en declive, encuentra dificultades para reincorporarse a la vida civil. Un día conoce a la novia de un gángster, la irresistible y misteriosa Kitty Collins.
Secretary (uncredited)
Christopher Cross es un simple cajero infelizmente casado, pero tiene un raro talento para la pintura. En cierta ocasión, conoce a una aventurera de la que se enamora y le hace creer que es un pintor de éxito. La chica y su novio, un individuo sin escrúpulos, aprovechan la ocasión para explotar al pobre hombre, que llegará incluso a cometer un desfalco en su empresa para que ella siga creyendo que es un artista de éxito.
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
WAVE
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
The Nurse
El doctor Drury vuelve invisible a Robert Griffin, un asesino psicópata, quien tiene el problema que cuando quiere volver a la visibilidad debe inyectarse sangre de otra persona, matándola en el proceso. Griffin aprovechará su invisibilidad para vengarse de unos antigüos amigos a los que acusa de robarle y haber intentado matarle.
Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
War Plant Worker
El hijo de un oficial de la Marina se pone al frente de la familia, dirige el esfuerzo bélico y monta un espectáculo musical para elevar la moral de los trabajadores.
Divorcee
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Nurse (uncredited)
Un violinista de la Ópera de París, locamente enamorado de Christine Dubois, una joven aspirante a soprano, es despedido porque su mano izquierda ya no es tan hábil como antes. Solo y sin dinero, después de haberlo gastado todo en pagar -sin que ella lo sepa- las lecciones de canto de Christine, decide publicar un concierto con el fin de completar la instrucción de la soprano y de hacerse famoso. Pero, a causa de un malentendido, ataca a su editor, y la secretaria de éste le desfigura el rostro con ácido. Se refugia entonces en los sótanos de la Ópera y, desde entonces, actúa como un fantasma cuya sombra amenazadora acecha en la sombra y siembra el pánico entre el público.
Bernice
Un par de jóvenes alegres y dicharacheros viven un idilio en paralelo al que afecta al padre de ella y a la madre de él, ambos viudos.
Barmaid (uncredited)
El resucitado Hombre Lobo, buscando una cura para su enfermedad acude en busca de la ayuda del doctor Frankenstein. Cuando llega a su castillo descubre que el Dr. ha muerto a manos del los habitantes del pueblo, y levanta las sospechas de éstos, que comienzan a perseguirlo. En su huida se esconde en las galerías del castillo donde libera del hielo al monstruo de Frankentein.
Tenement Girl (uncredited)
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
Anna Bailey
Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Orlebeck.
Azura, Queen of Mars
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS: Flash Gordon fights Ming the Merciless once again to ensure the survival of the Earth.
Helen McCoy
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
Passerby (uncredited)
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Queen Azura
A 15-episode serial starring Buster Crabbe.
Joan Lawson
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
Alice
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls.
Susan Bailey
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
Peggy O'Shea
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.
Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Party Guest (uncredited)
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.
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Marie de Namours de la Bonfain es una atractiva, joven y sofisticada princesa francesa de 23 años, que encuentra más interesante el amor que los títulos aristocráticos.
Woman in Party at Night Club
Un sargento del ejército anima a su hijo en convertirse en aviador de la escuela de West Point.
Party Guest (Uncredited)
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
