Martha Vickers
Nacimiento : 1925-05-28, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Muerte : 1971-11-02
Historia
Martha Vickers (born Martha MacVicar) was an American film and television actress.
Mary Hoag
A loner (James Craig) on the lam wanders into an Old West town run by a disabled villain that no one wants to fight.
Della
El ladrón Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) y sus dos socios le echan el ojo a la espiritualista rica Hermana Sarah, que ha heredado una fortuna, incluyendo un famoso collar de esmeraldas, de un financiero de Filadelfia. Usando a Gladden (Jayne Mansfield), pupila de Nat, para fingir ser un admirador y acceder a la mansión donde vive la mujer, establecen un plan perfecto. Las cosas se complicarán.
Valerie Bancroft
When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.
Katie Klinger
A promising young composer is tempted away from his devoted wife by a fortune-seeking woman who cares more for his prospects than for him.
Lila Strawn
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
Lolita Moreno
A convent-raised woman (Martha Vickers) learns of her American Indian heritage through romance with an educated Navajo (Philip Reed) during the 1880s.
Susan Duane
Horace Vendig es, en apariencia, un generoso filántropo, pero en realidad se trata de un hombre obsesivo con una codicia sin límites y una afición desmedida a enamorar y abandonar mujeres.
Herself (uncredited)
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Barbara Wyngate
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
Marcia Alden
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
Victoria Cassel
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.
Virginia 'Ginny' Brown
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
Carmen Sternwood
El detective Philip Marlowe investiga qué ha ocurrido con un cadáver que ha sido rescatado en el muelle Lido. La familia que le ha contratado para resolver el caso tiene una hija muy atractiva de la que Marlowe se enamora sin remisión.
Barbara Wade
La nueva intriga implica un reciente cuadro con la firma de un artista muerto 15 años atras, y el misterioso asesinato del dueño de una galería de arte, Tom termina con sus huesos en México en compañía de la bella Barbara (Martha Vickers), la hija del artista que busca respuestas acerca de la pintura y de su padre.
Sally Parker
Durante la 2ª Guerra Mundial, dos Marines ven comprometida su amistad cuando uno intenta terminar con el romance del otro.
High School Girl
El hijo de un oficial de la Marina se pone al frente de la familia, dirige el esfuerzo bélico y monta un espectáculo musical para elevar la moral de los trabajadores.
Dorothy Colman
Cuando Beth lleva a su hermana para que sea asistida quirúrgicamente, conoce al misterioso doctor Walters, quien efectúa extraños experimentos con animales. El prometido de Beth es Fred, un domador de fieras. En una visita casual del doctor, éste conoce a Fred… y también a una preciosa gorila, Cheela, a quien secuestrará para perpetrar experimentos con ella: primero le hace una transfusión con la sangre de la hermana de Beth, consiguiendo que adquiera apariencia levemente humana, y después le trasplanta el cerebro de una enfermera entrometida, convirtiéndose en la bellísima Paula Dupree... Primera entrega de la "trilogía de Paula Dupree, la mujer simio", formada por Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1944) y The Jungle Captive (1945).
Maid at Inn (uncredited)
El resucitado Hombre Lobo, buscando una cura para su enfermedad acude en busca de la ayuda del doctor Frankenstein. Cuando llega a su castillo descubre que el Dr. ha muerto a manos del los habitantes del pueblo, y levanta las sospechas de éstos, que comienzan a perseguirlo. En su huida se esconde en las galerías del castillo donde libera del hielo al monstruo de Frankentein.
