Irene Ryan
Nacimiento : 1902-10-17, San Francisco, California, USA
Muerte : 1973-04-26
Historia
Before becoming known to millions as Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Irene Ryan was already an established vaudeville, radio and movie actress, though not as famous prior to her television stint. She accompanied Bob Hope on his famous military tours and she was known as "the gal who makes Bob Hope laugh." After being cast as Granny, she became famous overnight. When the Hillbillies ended, she co-starred in the Broadway musical 'Pippin' with Ben Vereen. Unfortunately, despite wonderful reviews from critics, Ryan took ill, was discovered to have an inoperable brain tumor and died soon after at the age of 70.
Granny (uncredited)
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
Nora Finney
Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile accident. He revives his love affair with Melinda Marquand........
Eunice Johnson
The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springville with her two teenage children Jimmy and Cathy. Eleanor makes friends with the town's social leader Mrs. Wellington, who supports her idea for a town youth center, and she is aided by Tom Griffith, the high school principal. At the town's annual picnic, to which Eleanor has bought a band, the town busy-body Eunice reveals what she had learned from Eleanor's past.
Miss Stapleton
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Miss Clay
Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces everyone around her to pitch in and bring some life back into the place. She also sets her sights on old layabout Chill Wills, scheming to rope the critter into marriage. Veteran comedy director Charles W. Lamont moves the proceedings along with style, never missing an opportunity for a low-comedy slapstick turn. The most surprising aspect of Ricochet Romance is that it is not an entry in Marjorie Main's Ma and Pa Kettle series.
Alvina, a lady in waiting
1674. Sir Henry Morgan es un pirata "reformado" y ocupa un puesto como alto oficial en Jamaica. Pero Edward Maynard espera probar que no ha cambiado y, de paso, cobrar una recompensa.
WAC Sgt. Kearns
An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
Nancy
When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college.
Tillie
A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful.
Nurse Kay
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figure out where they have met, but they spend several hours together until she gets away before John notices.
Mrs. O'Rourke (uncredited)
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
Mrs. Mullin
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
Southern Belle at the Bar (uncredited)
En un viaje a África, un empresario del mundo del espectáculo descubre un enorme gorila de diez pies de altura, junto al que vive una hermosa joven que lo tiene de mascota. El empresario le convence para que vayan a Hollywood y allí presenta al gorila como "Míster Joseph Young de África". Obtiene un gran éxito como atracción de un club nocturno, pero algunos espectadores desaprensivos emborrachan al gorila, lo que da lugar a una serie de conflictos.
Mrs. Shaw
A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.
Mary
Una joven secretaria se enamora de su jefe, empleando los mismos trucos que utiliza él en sus negocios para hacerle caer en sus redes. No obstante, una vez casada, empieza a tener celos de la nueva secretaria que ha contratado su marido.
Opal Cheever
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Molly
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
Mrs. Mary Wernecke
El teniente Scott Burnett, del servicio de guardacostas, sufre todavía de pesadillas en su estado convaleciente, pero está decidido a casarse con su novia Eve y comenzar una nueva vida. Un día, paseando por la playa, se encuentra con una mujer, Peggy, casada con un famoso pintor, Tod Butler, que quedó ciego tras una acalorada discusión con su esposa. Scott y Peggy enseguida se enamoran, pero ella se siente culpable por lo que hizo y no quiere abandonar a su marido. Sin embargo, Scott cree que Tod finge su ceguera para mantener a su esposa a su lado.
Mrs. Tremble
Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.
Louise
Celestine consigue trabajo como doncella en la mansión de los Lanlaire, una decadente y excéntrica familia aristocrática. Su objetivo es servirse de su belleza para seducir a un hombre rico, pero el señor Lanlaire no parece el hombre adecuado debido al férreo control que su madre ejerce sobre él con la ayuda de un extraño mayordomo.
Prudence
Penny es una joven que sueña con convertirse en una estrella de Broadway. Para conseguir un papel e ingresar como actriz y bailarina en el espectáculo inventa una mentira, y le dice al productor Paul Renaud que ella es su hija, fruto de la relación que tuvo con su madre hace muchos años.
Miss Beatrice Kent
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
Bilson
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
Sheila Jones
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Polly Kane (as Irene)
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.
Irene (Princess Sheba)
"Dapper Dan" Franklin and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws imposed upon it by a City Council under the influence of their domineering wives. Harry Cheshire is under the thumb of his sister Abigail Uppington. One look at "Pappy's" daughter Clementine, and Dan decides to stay in Harmony...Blue Laws or no.
Irene
A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.
Gloria Brewster
The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
Irene Raynor
A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
Edgar's Wife
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
Elsie (uncredited)
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Mrs. Veronica Higby (uncredited)
Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's music career--he believes it would be best for the boy to have his parents back together, and sets out to do just that.
Irene / Cleopatra
Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss insists on his goofy daughter (Irene Ryan) playing Cleopatra opposite Tim's Antony.
Irene
Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case.
Irene Ryan
An Educational Pictures short starring Tim and Irene Ryan.
Tim has just been promoted to sales manager and his boss says he will be out to visit Tim and Irene in their new country home to see how his employees live. But Irene's wacky family----Ma, Pa and Brother---have moved in with them and converted the home into a hotel.
In a burlesque of the radio program "One Man's Family", Tim pays a visit to his fiancée, Irene Carr, to meet her family. He is ignored, insulted and relieved of his cash for a raffle in which he is not allowed to participate, and is finally deserted when Irene and all of her family walk out of the house and leave him all alone. This happens after two of her cousins stage a wrestling match, and a food-fight at the dinner table.
Irene
When Tim Ryan's leading lady walks out in a small hillbilly town, the leading lady he selects -- at gunpoint -- is dumb bell Irene Ryan.
