Jean Fenwick

Jean Fenwick

Nacimiento : 1907-05-30, Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Muerte : 1998-12-05

Historia

Jean Fenwick was born on May 30, 1907 in Trinidad, West Indies as Harriet Krauth. She was an actress, known for Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939), Street Corner (1948) and Breed of Courage (1927). She died on December 5, 1998 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Perfil

Jean Fenwick

Películas

El único testigo
Nurse (uncredited)
Desde la ventana de su dormitorio Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwick) observa espantada que en el edificio de enfrente un hombre está estrangulando a una mujer. Cheryl avisa a la policía que no tarda en acudir al lugar del crimen. Allí reside el respetable Sr. Richter (George Sanders). Después de interrogarle y ante la falta de evidencias, la policía duda del testimonio de la testigo y decide cerrar el caso.
The Great Diamond Robbery
Secretary (uncredited)
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."
Everything I Have Is Yours
Mrs. Tirson
A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Mrs. Brinsley-Wellington-Fish
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
Street Corner
Mrs. Marsh
Naive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist. Depending on the release presentation, the movie includes an animation of conception, filmed vaginal and caesarian section births, and a filmed presentation on how syphilis and gonorrhea present themselves.
Escuadrón de combate
Lady Woodbine (uncredited)
Segunda Guerra Mundial, 1943. En Inglaterra, en una base aérea americana conviven el sargento Dolan, un manipulador nato, y el insubordinado piloto de combate Major Ed Hardin. Cuando éste es nombrado comandante de su grupo, además de luchar contra el enemigo, tendrá que controlar y reprimir su tendencia a la indisciplina y su rechazo de la autoridad. Y, a medida que el día D se acerca, crece la tensión.
Nacido para matar
Margaret Macy (uncredited)
En Reno (Nevada), Helen Brent (Claire Trevor), una mujer fría y calculadora acaba de recibir una demanda de divorcio. Esa misma noche, se produce un doble asesinato en su barrio: Sam Wild (Lawrence Tierney), un atractivo psicópata, mata sin motivo alguno a una pareja. Para no verse involucrada en el asunto, al día siguiente, Helen coge un tren para San Francisco, pero Sam ha tenido la misma idea
Divorce
Joan Endicott
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Laura
Woman (uncredited)
El detective Mark McPherson investiga el asesinato de Laura, una elegante y seductora mujer que aparece muerta en su apartamento. McPherson elabora un retrato mental de la joven a partir de las declaraciones de sus allegados. El sugestivo retrato de Laura, que cuelga de la pared de su apartamento, también le ayuda en esta tarea.
Batallón de construcción
Capt. Joyce's Secretary (uncredited)
Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el capitán Yarrow y el jefe de construcción Donovan consiguen un permiso para levantar una base de armamento que les permita enfrentarse con cierta ventaja contra los japoneses. Cuando llega el momento de luchar, ambos lo harán con gran valentía y audacia.
Alma rebelde
Guest
Adaptación de la célebre novela de Charlotte Brontë con un reparto de lujo, encabezado por Joan Fontaine y Orson Welles sobre la profunda historia de amor de una institutriz y un rico heredero que se verá truncada por un trágico acontecimiento del pasado de éste.
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Alice Stack
Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, Ellery and his police-inspector father are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack. There've been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to the bottom of things.
Lo que piensan las mujeres
Dr. Vengard's Nurse (uncredited)
Larry Baker (Melvyn Douglas), un agente de seguros que ama su trabajo y la vida hogareña, ignora, sin embargo, que su esposa Jill (Merle Oberon) se siente deprimida y abandonada, porque él no suele mostrarse ni cariñoso ni apasionado con ella. Cuando, para tratar el asunto, decide visitar a un psiquiatra, conoce en la sala de espera a un excéntrico pianista llamado Alexander Sebastian (Burguess Meredith).
No, No, Nanette
Woman at Smith Home
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Third Finger, Left Hand
Ms. Carruthers
Margot (Myrna Loy), la editora de una glamurosa revista femenina, para evitar el continuo asedio de sus colegas masculinos y la cólera de sus celosas esposas, decide ponerse un anillo de oro en el tercer dedo de la mano izquierda, haciendo ver que está casada. Todo se complica cuando el artista Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas), harto de sus continuos fracasos con Margot, decide fingir ante todo el mundo ser su marido, que se creía desaparecido hace mucho tiempo.
Luna llena
Minor Role
Marianne de Beaumaniour está de camino a Nueva Orleans desde París para inspeccionar la plantación que heredó de su tío. En el barco viajan también algunos esclavos para ser vendidos. Charles, Duque de Villiers, un enemigo político del rey, también está a bordo haciéndose pasar por esclavo. El jefe de la plantación de Marianne compra a Charles y éste pronto la seduce con su encanto. Marianne descubre rápidamente la verdadera identidad de Charles y le deja en libertad, antes de que los oficiales franceses le encuentren. Marianne decide volver a París con el Capitán de Policía, a bordo del barco “Luna Llena”, pero deben hacer escala en la Martinica. Después de la Martinica, el barco es asaltado por los piratas. Marianne queda conmocionada al ver que Charles es el líder de los piratas. Esa noche, una dura tormenta les azota, y todo se hunde. Ahora Charles es el líder y la diversión acaba de comenzar….
Money To Burn
Miss Murphy
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
La torre de Londres
Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
En el siglo XV, Ricardo, Duque de Gloucester (Basil Rathbone), ayudado por su patizambo verdugo Mord (Boris Karloff), elimina a todos aquellos que se le enfrentan en la sucesión al trono, entonces ocupado por su hermano el Rey Eduardo IV de Inglaterra. Cada vez que lleva a cabo un asesinato, disfruta eliminado una de las figuritas que tiene colocadas en la sala del trono de su casa de muñecas, cuyo aspecto se asemeja a cada uno de los posibles sucesores al trono, hasta que queda sólo la suya. Después de la muerte de Eduardo se convierte en Ricardo III, Rey de Inglaterra. Sólo le falta derrotar al exiliado enrique Tudor para mantener el poder.
Tell No Tales
Mrs. Lovelake
Michael Cassidy es el editor de un pequeño periódico que está a punto de ser cerrado. El nuevo propietario, Matthew Cooper, dueño de otro periódico de la ciudad, sólo lo ha comprado para deshacerse de la competencia
Say It in French
Nursemaid
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Lady Beryl Ledyard
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Illegal Traffic
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
If I Were King
Lady-in-Waiting
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Men with Wings
Nurse
Esta película se desarrolla en los primeros tiempos de la aviación civil, cuando los pilotos se jugaban la vida como auténticos héroes debido a la precariedad de los primeros aviones.
The First Hundred Years
Miss Moffat - Harry's secretary (uncredited)
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
María Estuardo
Mary Seton
María Estuardo abandona Francia y regresa a Escocia, dispuesta a ocupar el trono del que es heredera. Pero los conflictos se acumulan: la nobleza le es hostil, comenzando por su medio hermano el conde de Moray, y su apego al catolicismo choca con la fe que predica John Knox, fundador de la Iglesia presbiteriana en Escocia. Por otro lado, su prima Isabel Tudor, hija ilegítima de Enrique VIII, teme que reclame la corona inglesa. Su único aliado es el conde Bothwell, comandante de las tropas escocesas, de quien se enamora.
Champagne Charlie
Roulette Player
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
I've Been Around
Girl
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
Imitación de la vida
Minor Role (uncredited)
La viuda Beatrice Pullman (Claudette Colbert) empieza a obtener beneficios gracias a las recetas de repostería de su sirvienta negra Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers). Mientras tanto, la hija de Beatrice (Rochelle Hudson) se enamora de su padrastro. Por su parte, la hija de la sirvienta (Fredi Washington) se empeña en hacerse pasar por blanca
Elinor Norton
Publisher's Staff
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Cross Country Cruise
School Teacher (Uncredited)
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Whoopee!
Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
Breed of Courage
Claire Dean
During a feud between remote families, a dog saves the day.
The Great Mail Robbery
Laura Phelps (as Jeanne Morgan)
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant Donald Macready, assigned by his commanding officer to squelch a train-robbery gang. Going undercover, Macready infiltrates the gang and monitors their every move.
The Sorrows of Satan
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
Fascinating Youth
Mae Oliver
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.