Betty Furness
Nacimiento : 1916-01-03, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1994-04-02
Historia
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Elizabeth Mary Furness (January 3, 1916 – April 2, 1994) was an American actress, consumer advocate, and current affairs commentator. She began her professional career as a model before being noticed by a talent scout and being signed to a film contract in 1932 by RKO Studios. Her first film role was as the "Thirteenth Woman" in the film Thirteen Women (1932) but her scenes were deleted before the film's release.
Over the next few years, she appeared in several RKO films, and became a popular actress. Among her film successes were Magnificent Obsession (1935) and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Swing Time (1936). By the end of the decade, she had appeared in over forty films, but during the 1940s, she found it difficult to secure acting roles. In 1948, Furness was performing in the television series Studio One, which was broadcast live. She filled in for an actor to promote Westinghouse products during the advertisement break, and impressed the company with her easy and professional manner. They offered her a contract to promote their products and she thus became closely associated with them.
Self / Commercial Spokeswoman
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.
Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.
Herself / Commercial Spokeswoman
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
Self
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
Self - Commercial Spokeswoman
Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the three. Jeff is seen as a fugitive in the eyes of this bloodthirsty community...and there seems to be no way to stop them.
Spokeswoman for Westinghouse
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.
Self - Commercial Spokeswoman
To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a neurotic young woman (Louise Allbritton) fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her graceful nurse (Grace Kelly) discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final and desperate act of revenge.
Helen Warner
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
Carol Wilson
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
Lucy Hawley
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
Kate Farnham
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Sheila Hunter
Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She even likes his pigeon, who travels everywhere with him.
Leila Cuppy
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
Patricia 'Pat' Randolph
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
Kitty Crane
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
Charlotte Brown
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
Margaret Watson
John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire) es un destacado bailarín que llega tarde a su boda con Margaret Watson (Betty Furness). El padre de esta le reta a que vuelva a pedir la mano de su hija cuando haya ganado la astronómica cantidad de 25.000 dólares. Para ello John se traslada a Nueva York, en compaía de su amigo Everett "Pop" Cardetti (Victor Moore), donde conoce a Penélope "Penny" Carroll (Ginger Rogers). La relación entre ambos se irá estrechando hasta el nivel de que acabarán enamorándose.
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
Joyce Hudson
El filántrópico doctor Hudson muere ahogado, pues la bombona de oxígeno que podría haberle salvado la vida se utilizó en beneficio del joven Robert Merrick (Robert Taylor), un frívolo heredero. Éste inmediatamente se da cuenta del rechazo que inpira a los demás, sobre todo, a Helen (Irene Dunne), la viuda del doctor, de la que se ha enamorado. Para conquistarla, decide convertirse en un filántropo anónimo como Hudson. Sin embargo, cuando Helen se queda ciega en un accidente, todos lo culpan a él. Robert decide entonces, oculto bajo una identidad falsa, llegar a ser un gran médico para poder devolverle la vista.
Phyllis Allen
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Molly
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
Mary Elizabeth Allenby
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Molly McFadden
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
Lisa
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Kitty O'Brien
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Yancey Stroud, aka Yancey Trice
Naomi mata a su marido maltratador para proteger a su familia, y construye una nueva vida para criar a sus cuatro hijos.
Mrs. Betty Whitehouse
Durante una fiesta, unos amigos descubren un oscuro secreto cuando comparan notas sobre un robo y un suicidio.
Jane Thurston
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Joan Shadwell
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
Joyce 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.
Linda
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
El director de una flota de aviones tiene problemas con su plantilla por culpa de los enredos entre sus chicos y las mujeres. Cuando le ofrecen un contrato para viajar a Río de Janeiro, surgen problemas porque ahora es él el que se enamora de una joven que ya está prometida.
Card Playing Party Guest (uncredited)
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
Evangeline
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men es una película inteligente y perceptiva sobre las relaciones de clase que deja suficientes preguntas para que el final sea absolutamente perfecto o absolutamente devastador, dependiendo de tu punto de vista.
Ruth Rogers
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Miss Saunders
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Alice Averill
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Pat "Mike" Plummer
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
Babe Jewel
Durante el rodaje de unas localizaciones, un vaquero de cine ha de actuar como si lo fuera de verdad.
Sylvia Bradfield
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. Drama.
Ginger
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Mary Fawcett
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
Trece mujeres que fueron compañeras de escuela piden a un swami que les haga sus horóscopos. Las noticias que reciben no son buenas para ninguna de ellas…
