Astrid Allwyn

Astrid Allwyn

Nacimiento : 1905-11-27, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA

Muerte : 1978-03-31

Perfil

Astrid Allwyn

Películas

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Hit Parade of 1943
Joyce Germaine
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
No Hands on the Clock
Gypsy Toland
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
Tío improvisado
Sara Cochran
Un caballero jubilado acude en auxilio de una joven, haciéndose pasar por su tío.
Cracked Nuts
Ethel Mitchell
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
Puddin' Head
Yvonne
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders.....
Melody for Three
Gladys McClelland
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.
City of Missing Girls
Nora Page
A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.
Meet the Missus
Violet Stevens
Gran Higgins cae bajo el hechizo de una viuda ansiosa de amor.
The Leather Pushers
Pat Danbury
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
Al amparo de la ley
Virginia Brandt
Un criminal utiliza sus conocimientos legales para alcanzar sus propósitos, no siempre acordes con la ley, traicionando de paso a sus amigos.
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Binnie Weldon
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
Reno
Flora McKenzie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Caballero sin espada
Susan Paine
Jefferson Smith, un joven ingenuo e idealista, que parece fácilmente manipulable, es nombrado senador. Ignora que en Washington tendrá que vérselas con políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos que le harán perder la fe. Sin embargo, gracias a su secretaria, una joven que conoce muy bien los entresijos de la política, protagoniza en el Senado una espectacular y maratoniana intervención en la que, además de defender apasionadamente la democracia, pone en evidencia una importante trama de corrupción.
Honeymoon in Bali
Fortune Teller
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Miracles for Sale
Mrs. Zelma La Claire
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Tú y yo
Lois Clarke
Un elegante play boy y una bella cantante de un club nocturno se conocen a bordo de un transatlántico, gracias a la invitación de otras dos personas. Ella es la amante de un magnate y él está comprometido con una rica heredera. Entre ellos surge un apasionante romance que los llevará a la siguiente promesa: romper con sus compromisos actuales, buscar trabajo y encontrarse a los seis meses, para continuar su vida juntos. Pero un trágico accidente impide a Terry acudir a la cita, con lo que el futuro de ambos sufrirá un giro emotivo e incierto.
Crimen Internacional
Phoebe Lane
La segunda y última película de Grand National Pictures que presenta The Shadow, interpretada nuevamente por Rod La Rocque. En esta versión, Lamont Cranston es un detective aficionado y presentador de un programa de radio con su asistente Phoebe (no Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz y el Comisionado Weston también aparecen.
Love Takes Flight
Diane Audre
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
The Westland Case
Miss Brentino
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
It Could Happen to You
Angela
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
Venus Makes Trouble
Iris Randall
A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.
Murder Goes to College
Greta Barry
Whodunit in a college setting.
Woman-Wise
'Bubbles' Carson
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Stowaway
Kay Swift
Chin-Ching se pierde en Shanghai y se hace amigo del playboy estadounidense Tommy Randall. Ella se queda dormida en su auto, que termina en un barco que se dirige a América. Susan Parker, también en el barco, se casa con Randall para dar una familia a Chin-Ching.
Flying Hostess
Phyllis Crawford
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
Dimples
Cleo Marsh
Shirley Temple vive con el abuelo de bolsillo en la ciudad de Nueva York del siglo XIX. Ella entretiene a la multitud mientras él trabaja su raqueta. Una mujer rica hace posible que la niña se haga legítima. Se realiza "Cabina del tío Tom".
Star for a Night
Josephine Hall
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
Sigamos la flota
Iris Manning
Cuando la flota atraca en el puerto de San Francisco, Bake Baker sólo piensa en recuperar a su antigua novia y pareja de baile, Sherry Martin. Mientras tanto, su amigo Bilge Smith mantendrá un romance con Connie, la hermana de Sherrie. Pero las cosas no discurrirán apaciblemente: Bake tiene la costumbre de hacerle perder sus trabajos a Sherrie, y Bilge no parece preparado para sentar la cabeza.
El secreto de Charlie Chan
Janice Lowell Gage
En esta ocasión el detective oriental Charlie Chan resuelve el caso de una heredera a quien se presume muerta, aparece sana y salva y posteriormente es asesinada de verdad. (FILMAFFINIT)
A través de la tormenta
Kate
Una familia residente en una granja de Maine acoge a una mujer joven, sin saber que tiene un secreto oculto que a nadie ha querido contar.
Candidata a millonaria
Vivian Snowden
Regi Allen trabaja como manicurista en un hotel de lujo y su sueño es casarse con un millonario para dejar de trabajar. Uno de sus clientes es un adinerado paralítico que podría responder a sus expectativas. Sin embargo, en su camino se cruza Theodore Drew III, un playboy arruinado que igualmente trata de casarse con una mujer rica que solucione sus problemas económicos.
Accent on Youth
Genevieve Lang
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
It's A Small World
Nancy Naylor
Jane Dane tiene un accidente de tráfico con el abogado Bill Shevlin en Clummmerhorn, un pequeño pueblo donde deciden resolver su litigio.
One More Spring
Girl at Auction
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
The White Parade
Gertrude Mack
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.
Servants' Entrance
Sigrid Hansen
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Monte Carlo Nights
Blondie Roberts
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
Mystery Liner
Lila Kane
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
Beggars in Ermine
Mrs. Vivian Dawson
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
All of Me
Ray (uncredited)
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
He Couldn't Take It
Blonde
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
Hello, Sister!
Webster's Secretary
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
The Iron Master
Flo Lancert
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
The Girl from Calgary
Mazie Williams
A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
Hat Check Girl
A Party Guest (uncredited)
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
The Night Mayor
Patsy
Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal rocks his administration, Tracy has his girl friend marry Dillaway, a writer friend, so that the press will leave him alone.
Love Affair
Linda Lee
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
Una mujer con pasado
Lola Goadby
Una chica rica de la alta sociedad neoyorkina con fama de aburrida se da cuenta de que se es mucho más popular entre los hombres cuando se pretende ser una chica "mala". De viaje en París conoce a Guy, un joven americano arruinado que le ayudará a inventarse esa "mala" fama para llamar la atención de la sociedad en la que se mueve y en particular la de su amado Donnie.