Connie Sawyer

Connie Sawyer

Nacimiento : 1912-11-27, Pueblo, Colorado, USA

Muerte : 2018-01-22

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Connie Sawyer

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Sunset over Mulholland Drive
Self
Hidden away at the end of Mulholland Drive, just north of Los Angeles, lies the Motion Picture & Television Fund. Its residents were once the backbone of American showbiz. The Fund gives them a home and new meaning in their old age. Still going strong in their own studio, they produce short films and pursue other creative projects. This documentary follows one such project from the first brainstorming session all the way to the premiere, revealing enduring dreams and hopes beyond the limelight — and lessons in life and love.
Showfolk
Herself
A Vaudeville comedian still working at 100, a stunning siren who dated Reagan when he was a Democrat, a kid out of college who sold The Ten Commandments around the world, a Disney legend who met Walt when she was a little girl and spent her life with Mickey Mouse: these showbiz vets share wisdom and inspiration garnered over seven lifetimes in the business. Residing together at the Motion Picture & Television Fund home, these entertainment lifers are "bonded by the show". These, ladies and gentlemen, are Showfolk.
Superfumados
Faye Belogus
Un adicto a las drogas (Seth Rogen) es el único testigo de un asesinato cometido por un maléfico capo de la droga (Gary Cole) y una policía corrupta (Rosie Perez). Amenazado de muerte, huye para salvar su vida, arrastrando con él a su camello (James Franco) y su proveedor (Danny McBride), en una divertidísima aventura cubierta de hierba.
Una familia casi perfecta
Old Lady
Un joven empresario (Livingston) de buena posición y que está a punto de casarse vive obsesionado con la idea de conocer a sus padres biológicos. Cuando, por fin, decide buscarlos, sus pesquisas lo conducen hasta un extravagante y hortera matrimonio (DeVito y Bates) que vive en la pobreza. (FILMAFFINITY)
Promised Land
Hazel
The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the last he ever starred in. He drives around in a car that's one big ad for himself and occasionally makes the local news with some freak incident. When the film starts he has just burned down his trailer and caused a traffic jam. He then hits the road with a DV cam to capture real life. A friend promised him he could sell such material to an Italian TV station. When he meets a famous singer on the way and gets drawn into her story things get interesting.
Cuando menos te lo esperas...
Lady in Market
Harry Sanborn es un solterón recalcitrante que sólo sale con mujeres mucho más jóvenes que él. Él y Marin, su última conquista, han planeado un romántico fin de semana en la casa de la playa de la madre de ella. Cuando Harry sufre un infarto, la madre de Marin, Erica Barrry, una famosa escritora divorciada, acepta a regañadientes cuidarlo hasta que se reponga. La sorpresa de Harry es grande cuando se da cuenta de que se siente atraído por ella, que, a su vez, gracias a Harry, descubre de nuevo el amor. Pero a Erica también la corteja un joven y encantador médico. Una vez recuperado, Harry vuelve a su casa y a sus viejos hábitos. Sin embargo, la relación con Erica ha alterado su vida y sus sentimientos.
Amor en el aire
Grandma Stewart
Donna Jensen (Gwyneth Paltrow), una atractiva joven de provincias, sueña con llegar a ser azafata de vuelo de una importante compañía aérea y está dispuesta a hacer cualquier cosa para conseguirlo. Sin embargo, el camino del éxito estará lleno de turbulencias...
Un romance muy peligroso
Old Elevator Lady
Jack Foley (George Clooney), un elegante atracador de bancos, es detenido tras un atraco fallido e ingresa en prisión. Estando en la cárcel Jack planea un plan de fuga en el que contará con la ayuda de su socio Buddy Bragg (Ving Rhames). Pero durante la huida se ven obligados a tomar como rehén a Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), una agente federal muy propensa a las atracciones fatales por los criminales que debe capturar.
It Came from Outer Space II
Mrs. Otis
Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when temperatures begin to soar, water disappears, power goes down and people seem not to be themselves.
Dos tontos muy tontos
Elderly Lady
Lloyd y Harry son dos amigos bastantes idiotas cuyas vidas son un auténtico desastre. El primero trabaja como chófer de una limousina, y el segundo se dedica a transportar perros. Su situación se complica aún más, cuando Lloyd se enamora de una chica adinerada que desaparece dejando olvidado un maletín. A partir de ese instante, Lloyd y Harry emprenderán un viaje por todo el país para devolvérselo.
Roseanne and Tom: A Hollywood Marriage
Motel Clerk
This riveting drama explores the explosive professional and private relationship between comedian Roseanne Barr and her volatile husband, Tom Arnold. Based on a true story.
Majority Rule
Mary
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Blue Desert
Elderly Lady 1
After surviving rape, comic-book artist Lisa Roberts is moving from New York City to small town in Arizona. But there's danger in small towns too.
The End of Innocence
Grandma
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Cuando Harry encontró a Sally
Documentary Couple
Harry Burns y Sally Albright se conocen fortuitamente cuando ella se ofrece para llevarle en su coche hasta la ciudad, entablan una conversación sobre la amistad entre personas de diferente sexo; la conversación acaba en discusión, pero entre ellos nace algo muy especial. Son un hombre y una mujer que se han pasado mucho tiempo intentando averiguar cómo seguir siendo amigos. Sin embargo, Harry tiene una firme creencia: que dos personas de sexo opuesto no pueden ser simplemente amigos, la relación siempre acaba en la cama o en el altar.
En la encrucijada
Viney Hunt
La joven Joleen y su padre se ven obligados a detener su coche en un desolado pueblo de Nevada para repostar gasolina. La estación de servicio está cerrada y se refugian en un cochambroso barracón para pasar la noche. La parada obligada en el pueblo hará que Joleen conozca a un joven rebelde, con el que mantendrá una relación de amor y odio, mientras una serie de asesinatos se suceden, cercando cada vez más tanto a los vecinos como a los extraños.
That's Adequate
Mrs. Duke Thorpe
This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
Nights in White Satin
Martha the Bag Lady
A young homeless woman is discovered by a successful photographer.
Hot Chili
Mrs. Houston
A group of American teenage boys goes south of the border to work for the summer at a Mexican resort. There they encounter many wacky guests and have zany adventures involving a German dominatrix, a music teacher that gets hot when giving lessons, a buxom cook, and an uptight socialite that eventually thaws. More often than not they end up in bed with someone, but one of the teens is holding out for True Love.
Do You Remember Love
Joan
Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional turmoil it causes for her. It also shows how the changes impact her husband, George, and their children. The film also looks at the process by which families can be educated and supported to deal with the impact of the disease, as well as what is done for those afflicted.
Justicia para todos
Gitel
Un abogado debe defender a un juez corrupto acusado de violación. Se trata de un magistrado con el que tuvo serios problemas profesionales, pues en una ocasión se negó a admitir, por pequeñas formalidades, pruebas irrefutables que demostraban la inocencia de uno de sus clientes.
Fast Break
Mom
David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. Preacher, who's being sought by some nefarious characters. And D.C., who's a fugitive. And along with some of the students at the college, he turns them into a contender. In order to give the tam the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the number 1 team led by Bo Winnegar, to play them.
The President's Mistress
Cleaning Lady
A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but also a Soviet spy.
Oh, God!
Mrs. Green
Cuando Dios se le aparece a un subgerente de una tienda de comestibles como un anciano afable, el Todopoderoso lo selecciona como su mensajero para el mundo moderno.
Little Ladies of the Night
Female Guard (uncredited)
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of underage girls working in prostitution. Pretty, young runaway Hailey Atkins has been turned out. Down deep she wants to go straight but has had great difficulty escaping her pimp and doesn't even have a place to go. York and Garfield go out on a limb to try and help.
El Hombre de la Cabina de Cristal
Mrs. Levi
Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) es un magnate judío de Nueva York que sufre una grave crisis mental que lo lleva al borde de la locura. Goldman acaba siendo capturado por agentes israelíes y juzgado por crímenes de guerra porque, en realidad, es Adolf Dorff, un coronel de las SS.
The Bait
Bus Passenger
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and killed, Fleming agrees to go undercover in an effort to make herself a target for the killer. The climax places her in a life-and-death struggle with the killer.
The Strangers in 7A
Mrs Layton
Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife (Ida Lupino) are held hostage by the crooks, who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery. Director Paul Wendkos stages the action essentially from the victim's point of view; we see only what they see, and are kept guessing as to the full details of the crime and the ultimate fate of the hostages. Based on a novel by Fielden Farrington, The Strangers in 7A was first telecast on November 14th, 1972 as a CBS Movie of the Week.
Evil Roy Slade
Aggie Potter
Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.
Five Desperate Women
Mrs. Brown
Five young women find themselves at the mercy of a mysterious killer while vacationing on an isolated island.
Bob, Carol, Ted y Alice
Waitress
Después de que la ultrasofisticada pareja formada por Bob y Carol decidiera asistir a una aislada terapia de grupo, sus opiniones en torno al sexo cambiarán de forma radical, para escándalo de sus amigos Ted y Alice.
Valor de ley
Talkative Woman at Hanging (uncredited)
Un viejo agente del Gobierno, alcohólico y tuerto (John Wayne), es contratado por Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), una valerosa y obstinada joven, que se propone capturar al asesino de su padre. Contarán además con la colaboración de La Boeuf (Campbell), un ránger de Tejas.
Camino de Oregón
Mrs. McBee
Missouri, 1843. El senador William J. Tadlock busca voluntarios que lo acompañen hasta Oregón. Será un viaje largo y lleno de penalidades, que exige atravesar territorio indio. Entre los primeros que se unen a la caravana está la familia de Lije Evans, un granjero sediento de aventuras, los recién casados Johnnie y Amada Mack y varios comerciantes de Independence.
For Pete's Sake
"For Pete's Sake" is the heartfelt and inspiring story of a man (Robert Sampson) struggling to come to terms with his wife's (Pippa Scott) untimely death, while raising their young son (Johnny Jenson). Sam Groom portrays the family's pastor and Terri Garr debuts as a wayward young woman in this entertaining and thought-provoking comedy-drama.
The Last of the Secret Agents?
Florence (uncredited)
Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty.
El tercer hombre era mujer
Alice Sweet
Bo Gillis es un candidato a gobernador, algo ingenuo y de carácter débil, que conoce a Ada, una mujer de oficio poco respetable, inteligente y enérgica, con la que decide casarse. Después de ganar las elecciones, Bo se da cuenta de su poca influencia sobre los demás por lo que su esposa le ayudará a ser respetado convirtiéndose en su brazo derecho.
Millonario de ilusiones
Miss Wexler
Tony Manetta dirige un ruinoso hotel de Miami y está cargado de deudas. Cuando se le ocurre pedir ayuda a Mario, su acaudalado hermano neoyorkino, éste le pone una condición: que abandone a su irresponsable novia Shirl y se case con una mujer bonita y callada de su elección. La mujer en cuestión resulta ser la viuda Rogers.