Mary Beth Hughes

Mary Beth Hughes

Nacimiento : 1919-11-13, Alton, Illinois, USA

Muerte : 1995-08-27

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Mary Beth Hughes (November 13, 1919) – August 27, 1995) was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in B movies.

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Mary Beth Hughes
Mary Beth Hughes

Películas

The Working Girls
Mrs. Borden
A groupie, an escort, and a strip club dancer get thrown into danger by the illegal activities of the men they love.
How's Your Love Life?
Linda Roberts
Jack Romanti runs a theater company that offers sexual therapy as well as a break in the movie business to insecure and inexperienced young new talents. This boils down to them being pimped out to sponsors but they all benefit from it.
The Blue Hour
THE BLUE HOUR tells the story of Tanya, a young woman with a mysterious past who finds herself trapped in a sexual hell in Los Angeles. Punctuated by striking visuals and avant-garde editing, THE BLUE HOUR is a lost masterpiece of late period sexploitation.
Gun Battle at Monterey
Cleo
An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.
Dig That Uranium
Jeanette
The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.
Las Vegas Shakedown
Mabel Dooley (as Mary Bethe Hughes)
A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster.
Loophole
Vera
Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Despite many setbacks, Donovan attempts to clear his muddied name.
Highway Dragnet
Terry Smith - Bar Girl
An ex-Marine on the lam from a murder charge. He hitches a ride from glamor-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the woman realize the man with them may be a killer.
Cerca de mi corazón
Arlene
El periodista Brad Sheridan (Ray Milland) y su esposa Midge (Gene Tierney) no pueden tener hijos. Midge se inclina por la adopción y se somete al igual que su marido a las rigurosas exigencias de las agencias de adopción. Cuando se entera de que un niño ha sido abandonado en una comisaría de policía, Midge solicita la custodia pero Brad se niega a secundar los planes de su mujer mientras no averigüe algo sobre los padres de la criatura.
Holiday Rhythm
Alice
A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his fiancé that he may have to postpone their honeymoon, she goes off on him, and as he backs away from her he hits his head on a fire extinguisher and knocks himself out. While unconscious he dreams his own version of the show he's trying so hard to sell.
El trompetista
Marge Martin
Con una trompeta de segunda mano, y siguiendo los pasos de un brillante músico de blues, un chaval se convierte en un músico excelente cuyo talento le lleva de los más lúgubre tugurios a los clubs con más clase de la ciudad. Pero su desesperada búsqueda por la melodía atrapada en su mente (pero que le es imposible tocar) le lleva al tortuoso mundo de la bebida.
Riders in the Sky
Julie Stewart
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the cattle business with his pal Chuckawalla Jones but decides instead to help Anne Lawson clear her father, rancher Ralph Lawson, of a false murder charge. He looks for the three witnesses who can testify that Lawson shot only in self defense in killing a gambler, but the witnesses are terrorized by another gambler, town boss Rock McCleary, who shoots witness Pop Roberts Morgan. Fatally wounded, Pop gives Gene the information needed to clear Lawson, then dies crying the "Ghost Riders" are coming for him. Gene then heads for a showdown with McCleary.
Square Dance Jubilee
Barbara Clayton
Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent out West to get authentic western singing acts. They find what they're looking for, but also get mixed up in cattle rustling and murder.
The Devil's Henchman
Silky
Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves, supposedly headed by Tip Banning. Arno is aware that a gang member has been murdered by Rhino, Banning's simple-minded right-hand man, but says nothing when he is questioned by the police, who are unaware of his real profession. Banning, knowing that Jesse knew who the killer was, admits him into the gang.
Grand Canyon
Terry Lee
A film company is shooting a western on location when the star breaks his leg. A local mule herder, who had never acted before, is "shanghaied" into taking over the role. Complications ensue.
Rimfire
Polly
An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.
El Paso
Stagecoach Nellie
Al ex oficial confederado Clay Fletcher se le concede la oportunidad de reunirse de nuevo con una amiga muy querida para él, Susan Jeffers, cuando su padre, el juez Fletcher, le manda un documento.
Last of the Wild Horses
Terry Williams
A cowboy must clear himself of a murder he did not commit.
Víctima de su destino
Jean Maxwell
La película sigue a un asesino que está huyendo y escondiéndose en un pequeño pueblo. Se esconde en la misma casa de huéspedes donde se hospeda el único testigo de su crimen y el azar hace que compartan la misma habitación...
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Millie
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
The Return of Wildfire
Judy Marlowe
In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can become king of the horse market. One stubborn rancher refuses to relent and his killed. His two surviving sisters then continue the fight. They are soon assisted by a passing drifter who ends up falling for one of them. In the end a gunfight between the good and bad guys ensues.
Waterfront at Midnight
Ethel Novack
Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has joined Barstow's gang. Things get worse after a bloody shootout, in which Mike apparently guns down his own brother.
Caged Fury
Lola Tremaine
Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.
The Lady Confesses
Vicki McGuire
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.
Rockin' in the Rockies
June McGuire
Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
El Gran Flamarion
Connie Wallace
Flamarion es la atracción de un Music Hall. Con éxito presenta su show en vivo. Dentro de su espectáculo se encuentra su bella ayudante, casada pero enamorada de un acróbata que participa en el show. La ayudante decide seducir a El Gran Flamarion para que mate a su marido y poder huir con el acróbata. Cuando El Gran Flamarion descubre la trama, la busca para acabar con ella
I Accuse My Parents
Kitty Reed
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
Take It Big
Gaye Livingston
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Men on Her Mind
Lily Durrell
A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan to her fame as a singer, as she tries to decide which of her three suitors she will choose.
Timber Queen
Elaine Graham
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
Never a Dull Moment
Flo Parker
Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
Melody Parade
Anne O'Rourke
The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
Good Morning, Judge
Mira Bryon
A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the plaintiff's attorney.
Follow the Band
Dolly O'Brien
Un granjero de Vermont va a Nueva York para convertirse en cantante, tiene éxito y se casa con la novia de su vecino.
Incidente en Ox-Bow
Rose Mapen/Rose Swanson
El asesinato de un ranchero rompe la aparente tranquilidad de un pueblo del oeste americano. Ausente el sheriff, los hombres del pueblo deciden formar una partida para encontrar a los culpables.
Orchestra Wives
Caroline Steele
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
The Night Before the Divorce
Lola May
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
Over My Dead Body
Patricia Cordry aka Pat Preston
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Blue, White, and Perfect
Merle Garland
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Design for Scandal
Adele Blair
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Charlie Chan in Rio
Joan Reynolds
In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.
Dressed to Kill
Joanne La Marre
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
The Cowboy and the Blonde
Crystal Wayne
A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.
Ride on Vaquero
Sally Slocum
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
Sleepers West
Helen Carlson
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
The Great Profile
Sylvia Manners
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Lucky Cisco Kid
Lola
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
Four Sons
Anna
Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
Star Dust
June Lawrence
When the studios reject her because she"s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.
Free, Blonde and 21
Jerry Daily
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
The Covered Trailer
Betty Higgins
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
Fast and Furious
Jerry Lawrence
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Dancing Co-Ed
"Toddy" Tobin
Una universitaria se esfuerza por sobrevivir en la academia y en el mundo del espectáculo.
Mujeres
Miss Trimmerback
Un grupo de mujeres pasan la mayor parte del día entre salones de belleza y tiendas de ropa, siempre murmurando, con cotilleos y rumores. De repente, una de ellas descubre que su marido se ve a escondidas con una dependienta. Esta situación provoca un escándalo entre sus amigas, produciéndose diversas situaciones de celos, envidias y rumores. (FILMAFFINITY)
These Glamour Girls
Ann
Un estudiante universitario borracho invita a una chica al gran baile, pero luego olvida que se lo pidió. Cuando ella se presenta en la universidad, él trata de deshacerse de ella, pero la chica no se marcha, se mantiene en sus trece y se deja ver con él ante sus presumidos compañeros de clase.
Bridal Suite
Bride
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
The Kid From Texas
Polo Match Spectator
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
Se llevó mi corazón
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Hale y Jimmy Seymour son una pareja que trabaja en en pequeños clubes nocturnos con la esperanza de tener éxito. Una noche, Larry Bryant (un productor de Broadway) ve a Mary y se enamora de su belleza y su voz. Larry Bryant le pide que haga una audición para el Sr. Collier y que Jimmy la acompañe. Después de escuchar a Mary, Collier quiere que Mary esté en su show. Jimmy anima a una Mary reacia a seguir el camino sin él.
Within the Law
Mamie (voice)
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.