Brenda Joyce
Nacimiento : 1917-02-25, Excelsior Springs, Missouri, USA
Muerte : 2009-07-04
Historia
Brenda Joyce (born Betty Graftina Leabo, February 25, 1917 – July 4, 2009) was an American film actress.
Herself (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Jane
Una mujer piloto emerge de la jungla tan joven como cuando su avión se había estrellado muchos años antes. Unos cazadores descubren que este fenómeno se debe a la existencia de una fuente secreta cuyas aguas proporcionan la eterna juventud. Tarzán tratará de mantener a los cazadores alejados del valle donde se esconde la fuente.
Narrator
A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who used to give him trouble now engaged in sports and activities, furnished them gratis, under self-supervision. Abbott and Costello furnish a couple of bits to liven it up some.
Jane
La última ocasión en la que Weissmuller ofrece su grito de guerra en su papel de hombre-mono. Pero no antes de cumplir la misión de rescatar a una bella sirena que es forzada a contraer matrimonio con un impostor que se hace pasar por el Dios Balu. Tarzán incluso llega a estar atrapado por un pulpo gigante cuando trata de llevar la calma a una comunidad de buscadores de perlas.
Dale Bullock
Although Dale and Ken Bullock should be a happily married couple, their marriage is on the verge of a break-up, because Dale refuses to give up her well-paying job in order to devote more time to Ken and their two children Jimmy, age 9, and Tommy, age 6. They sue for divorce and the Judge rules that the children be placed in the custody of their father. Dale realizes what she has lost but she is too proud to say anything to Ken, whom she still loves. Ken, shopping for the perfect stay-at-home wife to take care of his children, falls for the charms of his secretary, Millie Lynch. Not quite.
Jane
Tarzán y su familia acuden a Taronga con regalos para el rey Farrod, quien celebra su cumpleaños. Mientras tanto, llegan Tanya Rowlins, Paul Weir y Karl Morley con la intención de capturar animales salvajes para venderlos a varios zoológicos.
June Spenser
A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
Jean Kingsley
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
Miss Ruby Burke
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...
Jane
Una tribu africana dedicada a la adoración del leopardo, ataca a una caravana y luego captura a Jane y a Boy.
Donna Kincaid
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
Anne
Pastoral fantasy about a hermit who prefers the serene company of the woods and its denizens to the world outside.
Mary Carter
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
Lorna Gray
A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.
Jane
Un grupo de arqueólogos piede ayuda a Tarzán para encontrar un antigua ciudad oculta en un valle habitado por amazonas... Una nueva adaptación al cine del famoso personaje de Edgar Rice Burroughs que contó con dos importantes cambios: el personaje de Jane ya no estuvo interpretado por la dulce Maureen O'Sullivan (pareja habitual de Johnny Weissmuller en todas sus versiones anteriores), sino por Brenda Joyce, y la productora, que en todas las películas de tarzán anteriores había sido la MGM, fue en esta ocasión la RKO Radio Pictures.
Louise Latimer
In this wartime musical, a feisty singer working in a London dive swears that she will become a star. She gets a job in an airplane plant when she learns that her fiance, a producer, and his partner are looking for new talent at the war factories. While working there, the woman meets a handsome RAF officer and falls in love. This causes some trouble.
Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Maris Hanover
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.
Julie Martin
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
Betty Woods
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.
Fredericka Barrett
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
Mary Malloy
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
Penny Cooper
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Linda
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Harriet Livingston
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Simpson Daniels
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
Fern Simon
El médico hindú Rama Safti, después de hacer unas prácticas en Estados Unidos, regresa a su país para curar a los pobres de Ranchipur. Allí conoce a Lady Edwina, una mujer infelizmente casada, que intenta paliar su soledad con efímeras aventuras. La vida de ambos cambiará cuando se produzca un gran terremoto.