Poppy Wilde

Poppy Wilde

Nacimiento : 1914-12-05, Oakland, California, USA

Muerte : 2000-08-01

Historia

Poppy Wilde was born on December 5, 1914 in Oakland, California, USA as Ruby Stella Wall. She was an actress, known for Gold Diggers in Paris (1938). She died on August 1, 2000 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA.

Perfil

Poppy Wilde

Películas

La bella del Yukon
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
En la ciudad minera de Malemute, Yukon, el dueño del salón John Calhoun y una variedad de personajes sombríos buscan las bolsas de polvo de oro que los mineros depositan en el nuevo banco administrado por el mismo Calhoun.
Vieja amistad
Patron at Garden Center Club (uncredited)
Adaptación de una obra de teatro de John Van Druten. Dos amigas de la infancia, al hacerse mayores, se convierten en rivales, tanto en el terreno profesional como en el privado. En 1981, George Cukor hizo una nueva versión: "Ricas y famosas", con Jacqueline Bisset y Candice Bergen como protagonistas.
Three Cheers for the Girls
Brunette Chorus Girl (uncredited)
This short film showcases six production numbers from various Warner Bros. musicals.
Ruta de Marruecos
Handmaiden (uncredited)
Crosby y Hope son dos náufragos de un crucero por el Mediterráneo que acaban en Arabia intentando conquistar a una bella y exótica princesa.
Between Us Girls
Nightclub Patron
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
Moontide
Well-Dressed Woman in Bar
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
Yanqui Dandy
Chorus Girl for 'Little Johnny Jones' Number (uncredited)
La biografía del bailarín de vodevil George M. Cohan, creador del himno norteamericano ”Over There”, sirvió de base para este musical donde Cagney pudo demostrar sus grandes dotes para el baile. La obra, aunque se trata de una comedia, tiene un importante trasfondo de propaganda bélica ya que está realizada en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial.
The Dawn Express
Restaurant Patron
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
Anillos en sus dedos
Mannequin
Susan Miller trabaja detrás del mostrador en unos grandes almacenes, y sueña con ropa bonita y el glamour que nunca puede aspirar a tener. Cuando un par de timadores que estafan a millonarios convence a Susan de que puede cumplir todos sus sueños, el trío se dirige a Palm Beach. Susan conoce a John, que dice que está buscando comprar un velero. Creen que él es millonario, los estafadores tratan de venderle un barco que no es suyo, y se apropian de sus ahorros. Hay una petición de boda y la trama se complica.
Brooklyn Orchid
Party Guest
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
A la Habana me voy
Roulette Player
La empleada de unos almacenes de Nueva York es premiada con un crucero con destino La Habana. La compañía envía a uno de sus directivos para asegurarse de que el viaje se desarrolla sin problema alguno, pero no advierte a la muchacha que el acompañante en cuestión tiene novia. Decepcionada por la falta de interés del caballero, la joven acepta el galanteo de un atractivo jugador – con gran enfado de su compañera y cantante – que la toma por una rica millonaria en vacaciones. El apuesto ejecutivo no tarda en comprender que está comprometido con la mujer equivocada.
Navy Blues
Aloha Club Girl
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
La llama de Nueva Orleans
Party Guest
Claire Ledoux es una seductora mujer que, después de huir de su propia boda, reaparece en Nueva Orleans como un ser misterioso y fascinante que provoca la admiración de todos los hombres que le son presentados. Pronto ella debe escoger entre un rico solterón, Charles Giraud, y el rudo marinero Robert Latour.
All the World's a Stooge
Party Guest (uncredited)
The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the stooges to her friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax.
They Dare Not Love
Society Girl
Durante la huida que emprende un grupo de personas tras la invasión de las tropas alemanas, el príncipe austriaco Kurt von Rotenberg se enamora de Marta Keller. Al ser descubiertos por los nazis en Checoslovaquia, Von Rotenberg decide entregarse a cambio de que liberen a cuatro detenidos, entre ellos el novio de Marta. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Great American Broadcast
Minor Role
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.
Aquella noche en Río
Model
An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.
Al fin solos
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Danny y Hank son dos estudiantes de trompeta que han estado siete años estudiando y tocando juntos en la banda de la universidad. Los dos compiten en el trabajo y en el amor para conseguir los favores de su mánager, la bella Ellen Miller.
Adelante, mi amor
Hungarian Girl at Maxim's (Uncredited)
Año 1939. El americano Tom Martin, que luchó con los republicanos en la Guerra Civil Española, espera el día de su ejecución. Pero una reportera que busca una exclusiva le ofrece ayuda para escapar. Drama basado en las relaciones entre una periodista y un aviador tras la guerra civil.
Glamour for Sale
Club Patron (uncredited)
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
Hired Wife
Swan Club Patron
Un publicista le pide a su secretaria que se case con ella, por pura conveniencia, para poder cerrar un negocio que tiene entre manos. El pacto conlleva el divorcio inmediato, una vez cerrado el asunto. El problema viene cuando ella rehúsa cumplir con su parte, quiere seguir casada con su 'maridito'.
From Nurse to Worse
Assistant Surgeon
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
His Bridal Fright
Mail Order Bride
Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
City in Darkness
One of Petroff's Girlfriends
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
La historia de Irene Castle
Guest with Grand Duke (uncredited)
Vernon Castle, que se gana la vida como actor cómico de segunda fila, conoce en una playa a Irene, quien ve en él grandes aptitudes como bailarín. Ambos se enamoran y poco después se casan. Irene convence a Vernon para formar juntos una pareja de baile. Un malentendido les lleva a París, donde en realidad sólo le querían a él para interpretar un grotesco número cómico de vaudeville. La suerte, sin embargo, les sonríe de inmediato: una empresaria pone sus ojos en ellos y les hace debutar en el Café de París. Vernon e Irene triunfan por todo lo alto en el mundo de la moda. Pero estalla la guerra y Vernon siente la necesidad de alistarse.
Dramatic School
Nightclub Patron
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Ángeles con caras sucias
Girl at Gaming Table
Un sacerdote presencia impotente cómo los niños marginados de su parroquia sucumben a las malas influencias de un criminal que fue compañero suyo de la infancia. Sin embargo, con el tiempo los dos hombres siguieron caminos muy diferentes: uno abrazó el sacerdocio y el otro se convirtió en un gángster.
Gold Diggers in Paris
Golddigger
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
Volvió el amor
Parisian Party Guest
Julie e Ives Tower se conocen en la universidad y se enamoran. Proyectan casarse cuando terminen sus estudios. Sin embargo, debido a la oposición de los padres de ella, la relación se rompe y Julie acaba casándose con un escritor alcohólico, con el que se traslada a París.
Hollywood Hotel
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Living on Love
Aladdin Shaver Saleswoman
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Siempre Eva
Starlet
Un tímido contable (Leslie Howard) trata de salvar de la bancarrota a un estudio de Hollywood con la ayuda de una sexy mujer (Joan Blondell) y un cínico productor de buen corazón (Humphrey Bogart).
Sing, Baby, Sing
Member of Girls Band
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Suzy
Cafe Patron
Una cabaretera americana llamada Luzy se marcha a Londres en 1914, donde se enamora de un inventor irlandés llamado Terry, quien trabaja para una empresa de ingenieria alemana. Tras casarse con él, Terry es asesinado por lo que Suzy huye a Paris donde intentará rehacer su vida. En su reparto destaca la presencia de Franchot Tone (1905-1968), un secundario con clase de actor principal, que rodó multitud de títulos durante los años 30 y 40, pasando después a ese cementerio de estrellas que es la televisión. La romántica balada del filme, "Did I Remember", con música de Walter Donaldson y letras de Harold Adamson, fue candidata a un premio de la Academia."
A Thrill for Thelma
Nightclub Patron
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.
Melodías de Broadway 1936
Showgirl (uncredited)
Bob Gordon recibe una buena oferta económica para su representación de Broadway, pero debe contar para su espectáculo con la viuda Lilian. Delicioso musical que optó al Oscar a la mejor película, en la que se habla de los entresijos del Broadway de la época, donde los artistas desean alcanzar la fama y el reconocimiento.
Hoi Polloi
Woman with Cigar Smoker
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as gentlemen.
Times Square Lady
Race Track Spectator / Passerby
Toni viene de una pequeña ciudad de Iowa dispuesta a hacerse con el negocio de su difunto padre en Nueva York, relacionado con el mundo de las apuestas deportivas. Aunque los socios del fallecido tratan de quedarse con el negocio, Toni no está dispuesta a abandonar su meta tan fácilmente, y encuentra apoyo en un cantante y su novia.
El refugio
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Un mujeriego mafioso (Montgomery) es herido por la policía y se esconde en una casa de campo, donde se enamora de una chica de campo (O'Sullivan).
Change of Heart
Party Guest
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.