Allison Hayes
Nacimiento : 1930-03-06, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
Muerte : 1977-02-27
Historia
Born Mary Jane Hayes in Charleston, West Virginia, she was in the class of 1948 at Calvin Coolidge High School. Hayes won the title of Miss District of Columbia. She went on to represent D.C. in the 1949 Miss America pageant. Although she did not win the competition, it provided her with the opportunity to work in local television before moving to Hollywood to work for Universal Pictures in 1954. Taking the name Allison Hayes, she played small roles in a handful of films at Universal for a couple of years. In 1955 she filed a lawsuit against the studio over injuries she sustained while filming her second picture, SIGN OF THE PAGAN. Universal released Hayes from her contract, and she was subsequently signed by Columbia Pictures.
After appearing in a handful of Columbia films including COUNT THREE AND PRAY, MOHAWK, and WOLF DOG, Hayes was given in the lead role in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN (1958). The film would eventually gain a cult following and become the performance for which she is best known. However, it did not escalate Hayes's career at the time. For several years she remained consistently employed in movies and on television (including an extended stint on the soap opera "General Hospital" and several appearances on her friend Raymond Burr's "Perry Mason" series).
By the mid-1960s, though, Allison Hayes's career was all but over and she was beset by health problems. She would later admit that the pain of her illness led her to contemplate suicide, and that her symptoms were not taken seriously by doctors. After reading about metal poisoning in factory workers and recognizing the similarity of the symptoms described to her own, she hired a toxicologist to test a calcium supplement she'd been using for an extended time. The tests revealed that the pills contained an extreme amount of lead, and that Hayes was likely suffering from lead poisoning. She mounted a campaign to pressure the Food and Drug Administration into banning the supplement, but her condition deteriorated to the point of total incapacity. In 1976 she was diagnosed with leukemia, and began regular cancer treatment. Allison Hayes died February 26, 1977 at the UCSD Medical Center in La Jolla, California, just short of her 47th birthday. In a letter that arrived after her death, the FDA informed her of amendments being made to the laws governing the importation of nutritional supplements, largely as a result of her advocacy.
Self (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Mabel
Elvis Prestley es un cantante que actúa en los rodeos y conduce un caro automóvil y estará rodeado de hermosas chicas
Mrs. Grayson
Dean Martin Protagoniza una serie, con todos los codazos varoniles de los que es capaz, a golpe de rudo chiste declamado a pie' de andamio. En el papel de estrella de la televisión se muestra tan irresistible como cargante. La fans le adoran con la fruición con que su novia se harta.
Donna
Después de que la cápsula en la que se encontraba un astronauta fuera explosionada en órbita, un joven encuentra un brazo arrancado que ha caido a tierra desde la cápsula. El brazo, inexplicablemente volverá a la vida para poseer la mente del joven y para asesinar...
Sharon Hill
A private detective (Willard Parker) falls for the girlfriend (Allison Hayes) of a racketeer whom he believes has targeted him for death.
Justine
A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attractive women committing various forms of self-mutilation.
Monica Gray
A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting to overturn Castro.
Connie Lane
Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney.
Elena Martine
An undercover U.S. agent searches for an Arab ruler's son kidnapped by communists in Hong Kong.
Sherry
A cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his girlfriend, and goes after the men he believes are responsible for his brother being shot down by lawmen.
Ellen Hughes
A paroled convict tries to start life anew by moving with his family to a ranch, where his young son finds a puppy that is half wolf and half dog.
Nancy Fowler Archer
Una sufrida ama de casa (Allison Hayes) se encuentra con unos extraterrestres que la hacen crecer y crecer hasta que alcanza los 50 pies de altura. Un film de culto de serie B, delirante, prefeminista y con el encanto de los clásicos de ciencia-ficción de los años cincuenta.
Tonda Metz
When men on a photo safari stumble into a misanthropic doctor’s remote camp with a wounded comrade, the doctor's restless wife supplements her usual pursuit (voodoo, especially as a way to off her husband) with a new one: seduction. As men lose their hearts (sometimes literally) to the alluring voodoo priestess, she embarks on a killing spree that turns the jungle blood red.
Grace Thomas
Un científico loco realiza una serie de experimentos para conseguir la vida eterna, pero fracasa estrepitosamente, llenando su laboratorio de perturbados mutantes.
Mona Harrison
American tycoon George Harrison, his beautiful wife, Mona, and deep-sea diver Jeff Clark are off the coast of Africa hoping to salvage a fortune in diamonds at the bottom of the sea near the voodoo-haunted island of Mora Tau, and are joined by an English girl named Jan. The treasure is reported to be guarded by Zombies, walking dead-men doomed to roam the earth until men stop trying to find the sacred treasure. Here, they are walking the sea-bottom, and there is a large conflict of interest between them and the treasure-seekers.
Livia
Dos psicólogos contratan a una prostituta y, mediante hipnosis, la transportan a la Edad Media para investigar su vida cuando era bruja; pero, cuando se enteran de que va a ser ejecutada, deciden viajar también a la época medieval para intentar salvarla. Sin embargo, si la joven eludiera su destino, alteraría inexorablemente el curso de la historia, es decir, sus futuras reencarnaciones ya no serían posibles.
Erica Page
Cuando su marido, el sheriff de Oracle, es asesinado, Rose Hood ocupa su puesto y se convierte en la nueva sheriff de ese pequeño pueblo del oeste.
Greta Jones
Hasta las llanuras del medio oeste de los Estados Unidos llega un tipo ambicioso y sin escrúpulos. Ha hecho un largo viaje con el objetivo de recuperar unas tierras que, según él, pertenecieron a sus antepasados antes que a los indios. Para conseguir recuperarlas sólo tienen que lograr que los colonos, los soldados y los indígenas se enfrenten entre sí... (FILMAFFINITY)
Mrs. Archer
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
Georgina Decrais
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.
Joyce Kern, alias Sue Morton
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
Barbara Devery
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
Irene de Bournotte
Francia, 1803. Once años después de la revolución, lo que queda de la aristocracia francesa está liderada por un misterioso personaje conocido como "La Máscara Púrpura" que rescata nobles en problemas y rapta a oficiales de Napoleón para después pedir rescate por ellos. En esta tarea se ve ayudado por un grupo de atractivas jovencitas dirigidas por Laurette, hija del duque de Latour. Pero ni tan siquiera ella sabe quién se esconde detrás de la máscara.
(uncredited)
Uno de los herederos de un patriarca bíblico solicita le anticipen su parte de la herencia y se marcha de la granja familiar a gozar de una vida de orgía y desenfreno en una capital extranjera. Una vez ha dilapidado el dinero, regresa al hogar paterno.
Carmen
Marineros americanos se lanzan a la diversión y el romance con varias francesas en París.
Ildico
Durante el siglo V, el Imperio Romano se dividió en dos y fue objeto de ataques de los hunos bajo Atila. El centurión romano Marciano es capturado por soldados hunos e interrogado por Attila, que desea aprender las costumbres de los romanos. Marciano logra escapar a caballo gracias a la encantadora hija de Atila, Kubra. Él va a Constantinopla para avisar al Imperio de Oriente sobre los hunos. Sin embargo el emperador Teodosio tiene la intención de hacer tratos con los bárbaros.
Lieutenant Dickson
Peter Stirling (con su vieja amiga la mula parlante) se incorpora al activo en las ... WACs (Women's Army Corps, cuerpo femenido del ejército)!
