Elena Verdugo
Nacimiento : 1926-04-20, Hollywood, California, USA
Muerte : 2017-05-30
Historia
Elena Angela Verdugo was an American actress who began in films at the age of five in Cavalier of the West. Her career in radio, television and film spanned six decades. In her film career she was often typecast in roles as gypsies, harem dancers, peasant girls, Indian maidens and senoritas over the years before TV instigated the second stretch of her career.
Herself
The One, The Only, The Real Tarzan is a compelling look at the turbulent life of Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic champion who became the most famous Tarzan of the movies.
Self (archive footage)
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
Consuelo Lopez
Marcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an old friend of his who gave up practicing medicine in favor of being the hospital administrator, and his son who is now a doctor and who is currently treating and romancing a woman who has kidney problems. And one of his patients an expectant mother is in an accident along with her husband and her husband dies. She blames Mark and is refusing to bond with her new baby. And the hospital that he has been serving faithfully for years is considering letting some of their elderly staff members go and Mark is on top of the list.
Betty
Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for his father, a successful carpet manufacturer. Bobby's dreams of a cushy junior exec position are quashed when he's told to report to the shipping department, where he's trained as a delivery driver. Learning the business from the ground up embitters Bobby, as well as his coworkers, some of whom, he discovers, are stealing from the company.
Hilda
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.
Lila
The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.
Vera Wax
Cuando al fotógrafo norteamericano Grif Henderson le encargan un trabajo en París, decide viajar con su mujer y con su hijo para dar algo de chispa a su matrimonio, pero la estancia en la ciudad francesa no será tan tranquila como esperaba.
Miss Devi
A young wife's marriage begins to crumble after she's attacked by a knife-wielding woman whom the police believed was already dead.
Sal Regan
The story finds Sal Regan singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive. Wealthy Dennis P. Dennis takes a liking to Sal, and decides to do the "My Fair Lady" bit. He takes the girl back to the States, where, after teaching her the social graces, he makes her famous as a high-toned supper club songstress. Along the way, Dennis falls in love with Sal, much to the dismay of his wealthy pals, who try to break up the romance.
Jane Warren
Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.
Lokawa
Pathfinder, un hombre blanco criado por los indios mohicanos, une fuerzas con el ejército británico para vengarse de los guerreros mingo y los franceses, que han traído la muerte y el saqueo a su pueblo.
Elena Verdugo
Joe Kovak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a son. A competing plane company is seeking the same Army contract as Bentley, and offers a $500 bonus to their publicity woman Marge Stevens if she can entice Joe into quitting Bentley to join their company. When Joe takes repeated unnecessary risks in the air, Bentley fires him and Joe goes to work for the competitor. He almost loses his life when the inferior plane he is testing fails to function at a high altitude, a fault that the designer had anticipated but had let get by because of his greed in getting the contract.
Neela
A young man assembles a band of adventurers to take on an evil sultan.
Marie Duval
Montana Marshals Gene and Scat are tracking some bank robbers. When the baddies cross into Canada, the Mounties are called upon to help.
Orange Girl
José Ferrer ganó el Oscar al mejor actor por su retraro del espadachín y poeta con lengua de plata que intenta atraer a la mujer a la que ama, pero que ama a otro hombre.
Andrée Blanchard
The third installment in low-budget producer Lindsley Parson's "Chinook" series, Snow Dog was ostensibly based on pulp writer James Oliver Curwood's 1915 short-story "The Tentacles of the North," which was also the working title. Kirby Grant again played Rod McDonald of the Canadian Royal Mounted, and once again the vehicle was stolen by his canine sidekick, the white malamute Chinook. This time, Rod and Chinook are tracking a mysterious white wolf, thought to have killed several of the local traders.
Nona
Little David Gordon lives in the jungle with his parents Ruth and Fred, along with their servant Nona. David likes living there while his father captures wild animals; he's made friends with Bomba the jungle boy, who has shown him a great deal about life in the jungle. One day two adventurers come looking for ancient treasure in the shadow of a live volcano.
Connie Jackson
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan--and, of course, his #1 son--must discover the identity of the person who doped the passengers and stole the money.
Li Wanna
Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.
Estrellita Estrada
Gene es contratado para trabajar como capataz en un rancho. La dueña del mismo está siendo presionada para casarse con un villano, que lo que realmente busca es llegar a hacerse con la propiedad del rancho y del resto de la fortuna que tiene la mujer.
Bianca Pereira
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his taciturn family. Eventually, the lad proves himself on all fronts, and is welcomed back into the family fold.
Dolores
Charles Starrett returns as The Durango Kid in Columbia's El Dorado Pass. It all begins when Durango, in his everyday guise of Steve Clanton, is falsely accused of robbing a stagecoach. The genuine criminal is not only a thief but a coin collector, searching for a valuable specimen by staging holdups.
Marilyn
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
Fioretta
En busca de un piano, Nicky, cantante y médico del buque Klin, conoce a una familia de colonos españoles y a su hija Cara que secretamente baila en un cabaret. Pero Nicky parece más interesado en Cara que en la inspiración para sus obras maestras en el futuro.
Carmelita Lopez
A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough seas and each other.
Martha Hill
Un ingenuo campesino llamado Benny Miller, de Cucamonga, California, ha estado tomando clases por correspondencia en materia de ventas. Al finalizar el curso, deja a su madre y a su novia Martha para labrarse un porvenir en Los Ángeles. Va en busca de su tío Clarence, contable de una empresa, quien le va a facilitar una entrevista para trabajar en el departamento de ventas. El día de la entrevista, el corrupto gerente de ventas, John Morrison, lo confunde con uno de los modelos para una nueva campaña de ventas y le pide que se quite la ropa. La esposa secreta de Morrison, Hazel Temple, descubre el error y sugiere que Benny sea contratado para evitar que esa equivocación trascienda a la opinión pública...
Nina Coudreau
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.
Ilonka
El científico trastornado Gistar Niemann (Boris Karloff) escapa de prisión y se convierte en el director de un macabro viaje a través de la cámara de los horrores. Retirando la estaca en el pecho de un esqueleto, resucitará al famoso Conde Drácula (John Carradine), y le enviará a matar al responsable de sus años de presidio. Además, encontrará congelados al Monstruo Frankenstein (Glenn Strange) y al Hombre Lobo (Lon Chaney Jr.), enterrados bajo las ruinas del conocido laboratorio del Doctor Frankenstein. Cuando les devuelve a la vida, el monstruo se volverá incontrolable.
Moana
Tres marineros mercantes huyen de Japón y se refugian en una isla del Pacífico, donde se encuentran con un médico y su hija, que se ocupan de los nativos, una tribu hostil que quiere matar a los marineros por pisar su suelo sagrado.
Ata
Charles Strickland es un agente de bolsa, casado, con dos hijos, y sin conflicto visible con su familia. Un día cualquiera, la esposa encuentra una nota donde su esposo le anuncia que se ha separado y que se ha marchado para siempre a París. Cuando todo el mundo presupone que lo ha hecho por otra mujer, Geoffrey Wolfe, un escritor que se ha acaba de hacer amigo de la familia Strickland, comprueba que el motivo de su huida es otro muy especial. Pasión y vocación de un personaje inspirado en la vida del polémico pintor Paul Gauguin.
Young Girl (uncredited)
Terminada la Guerra Civil norteamericana (1861-1865), las tierras de la familia de Belle Starr (Gene Tierney) han ido a parar a manos de los yanquis. Durante el conflicto, Belle, muy comprometida con la causa sudista, se casó con el líder confederado Sam Starr (Randolph Scott). Una vez concluida la contienda, la hermosa Belle se convierte en una proscrita y se dedica a combatir contra el expolio yanqui de los estados del Sur. (FILMAFFINITY)
Argentine Dancer (uncredited)
Una jovencita que se encuentra disfrutando de unas vacaciones en Argentina se enamora del dueño de un caballo de carreras (Don Ameche). Esta comedia, cuya mayor baza son los animados números musicales, consagró definitivamente a Betty Grable.
Little Girl
Burgess and Greeley are rustling horses and shooting Indians. When they kill Manual they frame Lieutenant Allister. His older brother John now attempts to defend him at his murder trial.