Bibi Osterwald
Nacimiento : 1918-02-03, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Muerte : 2002-01-02
Neighbor Woman
Melvin Udall, un escritor obsesivo y maniático, es uno de los seres más desagradables y desagradecidos que uno pueda tener como vecino. Pero, un buen día, tiene que hacerse cargo de un perro al que odia a muerte. La presencia en su vida del animal ablandará su corazón.
Widow Hansen
A 14 year old boy named Gunther moves to a small town with his parents and little brother. He meets up with a group of overly charitable paper boys who want him to sub for their friend while he's out of town. Gunther agrees so he can get enough money for concert tickets to take his blonde and beautiful crush too, all the while dealing with Chad, her wannabe boyfriend and his bully friends. All in all, Gunther learns to respect himself and other people and to have fun during it all.
Matilda
Película que recopila tres de los episodios más famosos de "Historias de la cripta", todos ellos digiridos por directores famosos y protagonizados por actores de renombre. En concreto, se trata de "Carrion Death", "None but the lonely heart" y "Abra Cadaver"
Dr. Gould's Nurse
Angie vive en una hermética comunidad de Brooklyn y no se siente nada satisfecha con su rutinaria vida. Cuando se entera de que está embarazada de su novio, Vinnie, decide tener el niño pero sin casarse con el padre. El vecindario no entiende la decisión de Angie, ni tan sólo su mejor amiga, así que la joven decide emprender un viaje donde se descubrirá a sí misma. Esta película, a caballo entre la comedia y el melodrama, está centrada en la figura femenina y en algunos temas que pueden afectar a la mujer, como la maternidad en soledad. Se trata de una adaptación de la primera novela de Avra Wing, y también está dirigida por una mujer: Martha Coolidge ("Tres deseos").
Mrs. Nakamura
Henry Crawford is the titular absent-minded professor busy at work in his laboratory. He has a girlfriend, but she is getting frustrated at his repeatedly missing their dates and spending more time with his experiments than with her. One day, Prof. Crawford makes an incredible discovery a form of rubber that defies gravity with each bounce, which he names Flubber. Hopefully, with this invention Crawford can prove to his love that he's not just a hopeless loser stuck doing dead-end research.
Margaret Langley
Television journalist, Patricia Traymore, moves to Washington to do an in-depth interview with vice presidential hopeful, Senator Abigail Winslow. She moves into a house where she lived as a child and where her father murdered her mother and attempted to kill her. She wants to face the past and, with the help of a psychic neighbor, Lila Thatcher, find some answers about this tragic event. In the meantime, Senator Winslow has some secrets she is hiding.
Mrs. Dooley
Nick is a writer full of hope, Lisa is a promising singer. They both have heartache after becoming single, but soon their newly formed friendship starts to develop into something more.
Annie McCarigle
An old trucker steals his truck for one last cross-country run, with a madam and her crew on board.
Matron
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of underage girls working in prostitution. Pretty, young runaway Hailey Atkins has been turned out. Down deep she wants to go straight but has had great difficulty escaping her pimp and doesn't even have a place to go. York and Garfield go out on a limb to try and help.
Mums Gornik
Walter Upjohn Ballantine es un conocido atracador que está confinado en un penal de alta seguridad. El alcaide de la prisión, al que todos llaman Bulldog, le vigila de cerca pero Ballantine consigue escapar para participar en un plan para robar un banco situado en una caravana, en compañía de su viejo socio, una joven socia capitalista, un ex agente del FBI y un experto en abrir cerraduras.
Mrs. Theodora Ratner
During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns he has been paying rent to a woman who hasn't owned his building in 6 years. No longer able to endure the injustices of society, he decides to activate the ferocious tiger within himself by abducting a helpless female and dragging her back to his lair.
Mrs. Fitzgerald
Samson Shillitoe es un poeta misógino, cuyo trabajo se ve constantemente interrumpido por las mujeres que entran y salen de su vida. Esta situación lo hunde en una depresión nerviosa, de la que intenta salir buscando ayuda médica, pero el remedio acaba siendo peor que la enfermedad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Erica 'Boothy' Booth
Dos colegialas, fascinadas por un concertista de piano, lo espían, lo siguen por todas partes y conspiran para introducirse en su vida en una desenfrenada y loca historia. Con Nueva York como telón de fondo, las precoces adolescentes harán todo lo posible por no perder de vista a su héroe, poniendo patas arriba la vida de Henry Orient.
Rosie
Parrish es un honrado, valiente y atractivo joven. Un día su madre recibe una oferta de trabajo para convertir en una señorita a una joven malcriada, que es la heredera de un importante productor de tabaco. Parrish se traslada con su madre a la mansión de la acomodada familia y no tardará en ser el centro de atención de todas las jovencitas del lugar.
Mme. Sofronie
A musical version of O. Henry's famous Christmas story.
Hazel
Short promotional film for a Saturday Evening Post sales convention.