Renie Riano
Nacimiento : 1899-08-07, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1971-07-03
Historia
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Renie Riano (August 7, 1899 – July 3, 1971) was an English-born American actress who, with the exception of the Jiggs and Maggie comedies, had minor roles in 1940s-1950s films.
She was the daughter of Irene Riano (1871–1940), the daughter of Joseph Rice, a Philadelphia theatre owner, who, in the early 1890s, married vaudeville acrobat Robert Riano (b. 1867, Yonkers, New York – 1909, New York City). Irene Riano was a stage actress, the sole female member of vaudeville's popular Four Rianos acrobatic act, eccentric acrobat act which toured the world in vaudeville, variety and music halls, and the mother of actress Renie Riano. Irene was the daughter of Joseph Rice, a Philadelphia theatre owner. In the early 1890s, she married vaudeville acrobat Robert Riano (b. 1867, Yonkers, New York – 1909, New York City) who organised the famous "Four Rianos" eccentric acrobat act which toured the world in vaudeville, variety and music halls.
Marthy
El piloto de cars Dave Owens de California va a competir en Spartanburg, Carolina del Sur, donde tiene la intención de competir contra el campeón local Sonny Leander Fox. Dave vence a Leander en una carrera, impresionando a su novia, Jane, y a la adinerada Martha Brian.
Airline Passenger
Cuando una pobre niña rica (Donna Butterworth) se queda repentinamente huérfana, uno de sus seis chiflados tíos (todos interpretados por Jerry Lewis) será elegido como tutor. La heredera de nueve años ha de visitar a cada uno y decidir qué tío es el idóneo. Pero el proceso de selección no va a ser sencillo, ya que tan sólo uno es realmente sincero, y los demás tienen puestos los ojos en la herencia de 30 millones de dólares.
Maid
Go Go, un marciano explorador, vuela a la tierra para preparar una invasión que hará con sus camaradas de Marte. Aterriza mientras se está celebrando una fiesta en la piscina de la tía Wendy, excéntrica propietaria de una tienda de ropa para adolescentes.
Old Lady #2
Frankie, Dee Dee y todos sus amigos se dirigen a Bikini Beach para pasar unas vacaciones de diversión, surf y mucha música. Allí descubren una peculiar tienda que resulta ser el cuartel general de Potato Bug, una estrella británica de la canción, que está protegido por un inusual guardaespaldas, Lady Bug y sus técnicas francesas de autodefensa.
Mrs. Crotty
Unos niños encuentran una foca extraviada y deciden cuidarla y darle un hogar. Esto traerá consecuencias cómicas a la vez que varias desventuras con el animal y con ciertos hombres que quieren robarlo.
WAF Sgt. Anderson
Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.
Maggie Jiggs
Monogram's Bringing Up Father series, based on the popular comic strip by George McManus, hit a high point of sorts with 1950's Jiggs and Maggie Out West. Joe Yule Sr. (Mickey Rooney's father) and Rene Riano are perfectly cast as nouveau riche Jiggs and Maggie, who head thataway when Maggie inherits a goldmine. As usual, Maggie spends her time trying to climb the frontier social ladder, while down-to-earth Jiggs is more interested in finding a plate of corned beef and cabbage.
Maggie Jiggs
With Maggie laid low with sneezing fits, Jiggs spends his time listening to radio trivia contests. Maggie, an inveterate social climber, wants to join the prestigious Northchester Hunt Club, and sends them a check for the $38,000 membership fee. When Jiggs finds out, he manages--after a struggle with Maggie--to take care of the check. Consoling himself at his favorite bar, he's convinced by his drinking buddies that the way to make up with Maggie is to buy her a racehorse that is coming up for auction. He does, only to discover that a doctor has told Maggie that her sneezing fits are due to a rare allergy she has--to horses. Complications ensue.
Maggie
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
Lorene Smith
Adaptación de una obra teatral. Un extraño cliente de un bar (James Cagney), una especie de filósofo e insaciable bebedor de caro champagne, al que le gusta escuchar viejas canciones en la gramola del bar, se hace amigo de Morris, un chico muy formal y un poco retrasado, que se ocupa de hacer todos los recados que Cagney le encarga: apostar a los caballos, recoger juguetes de niños y comprarse goma de mascar...
Maggie Jiggs
Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
Maggie
Based on the comic strip by George McManus about the adventures of the social-climbing Maggie and her long-suffering husband Jiggs. In this film, one of Maggie's society friends enlists her help in evicting an undesirable tenant, who turns out to be Jiggs.
Lucy Lovejoy
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
Mrs. Schuyler-Riggs
A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.
Emily
Un excéntrico inventor del siglo XIX está prometido a una hermosa mujer, convencida de que su novio le aportará la estabilidad económica que tanto desea. Al final, el amor se impondrá a la codicia.
Mrs. Cavendish
A doctor answers a suicide call in a Latin nightclub.
Mrs. Hawkins
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
Studio Waitress (uncredited)
Gene Kelly y Frank Sinatra son dos marineros de personalidades opuestas: uno (Sinatra) es tímido y un tanto ingenuo, mientras que el otro (Kelly) es un hombre de mundo. Ambos vivirán mil peripecias en la ciudad de Los Ángeles
Eurydice Lanning
Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.
Genevieve
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
Mrs. Nellie Bramble
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Ms. Tobin
A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.
Christina Kellogg - Housekeeper
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
Miss Aphrodite Phipps
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Stella (aka Meg)
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.
Nurse (uncredited)
George Custer (Errol Flynn) llega a la Academia de West Point lleno de arrogancia y vanidad. Su carácter indisciplinado le ocasionará numerosos problemas con sus superiores. A pesar de todo, y debido a la acuciante necesidad de oficiales para la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), es enviado al frente. Terminada la guerra, se casa con Beth (Olivia de Havilland), pero pronto le asignan un nuevo destino: la guerra contra los indios. Al frente del Séptimo de Caballería, el Teniente Coronel Custer se enfrentará a los indios de Caballo Loco. La campaña termina con la famosa batalla de Little Big Horn (Montana, 1876).
Minnie
Peter Kirk es un atractivo playboy que se ha casado con una atractiva doctora, Helen Hunt. Al poco tiempo los celos van a hacer que Peter sospeche de todos los pacientes masculinos de su mujer, para desesperación de ella.
Karen Vadja
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Mrs. Snell
Un reportero casado aprovecha que le mandan a cubrir noticias a diferentes ciudades de todo el mundo para conquistar mujeres de diversas nacionalidades. Mientras está en Lisboa, con su última conquista, su mujer le dice que ha encontrado a otro hombre y que se quiere divorciar. Decide regresar a casa para intentar arreglar su matrimonio.
Annie
Tres mujeres sueñan con actuar en los musicales de Broadway de Florence Ziegfeld. Susan teme que su éxito apene a su padre, actor de vodevil en declive. Sheila se debate entre el amor a su novio y las atenciones de un millonario. Sandra está casada con un virtuoso del violín que no soporta que su mujer consiga el éxito en el mundo de las lentejuelas.
Miss Bunson, the Photographer
Adam y su esposa contratan a Emilie como institutriz de sus cuatro hijos. Poco después muere la esposa de Adam, y Emilie, fiel a la promesa que le hizo en sus últimos momentos, continúa con la familia. Pero una crisis financiera arruina a Adam.
Mrs. Gattles
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
Sarah Jones
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Mrs. Dixon
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
Miss Genevieve Pilchard
Kit Carson admite a regañadientes guiar a un grupo de colonos a través del territorio indio de California. Kit deberá enfrentarse por una parte al capitán Fremont, enamorado de la misma mujer que él, y a las emboscadas indias que harán peligrar las vidas del grupo.
Telegraph Operator
Una autora de libros feministas y un profesor de medicina bastante retrógrado, encuentran que les beneficia mutuamente simular que están casados.
Sarah Osborn
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive. Director William Thiele's 1940 film stars Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton, Harold Huber, Donald Meek, Nat Pendleton, Renie Riano, Frank Albertson, Reginald Owen, Ann Morriss and Richard Carle.
Miss Grace
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Customer (uncredited)
Alfred Kralik es el tímido jefe de vendedores de Matuschek y Compañía, una tienda de Budapest. Todas las mañanas, los empleados esperan juntos la llegada de su jefe, Hugo Matuschek. A pesar de su timidez, Alfred responde al anuncio de un periódico y mantiene un romance por carta. Su jefe decide contratar a una tal Klara Novak en contra de la opinión de Alfred. En el trabajo, Alfred discute constantemente con ella, sin sospechar que es su corresponsal secreta.
Lilly Wigham
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Miss Briggs
Cuando una pareja va a celebrar su segundo aniversario de boda, ella descubre una mancha de carmín en el cuello de su esposo; así que comienza a sospechar de todas las mujeres que trabajan con su marido. Para pagarle con la misma moneda, ella acepta un trabajo como secretaria de un afamado playboy.
Mrs. Riley
Adaptación de una novela de Lloyd C. Douglas ("Sublime obsesión", "La túnica sagrada"), cuyos protagonistas son médicos que tienen concepciones contrapuestas de su profesión: unos son idealistas, y otros materialistas.
Head Saleswoman (uncredited)
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Effie Schneider
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Ugly Saleswoman (uncredited)
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)
Effie Schneider
Nancy Drew clears her Uncle Matt of murder charges when she exposes the real murderers. She and Ted find themselves in many dangerous positions such as trying to fly an airplane after the pilot parachuted out and being face-to-face with the murderer.
Olga - Maid (uncredited)
Michael Cassidy es el editor de un pequeño periódico que está a punto de ser cerrado. El nuevo propietario, Matthew Cooper, dueño de otro periódico de la ciudad, sólo lo ha comprado para deshacerse de la competencia
Mrs. Pujol
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
Librarian
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
Mrs. Craig
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Chick's Pilot Girlfriend (Uncredited)
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Effie Schneider (uncredited)
Mientras participa en un concurso del periódico local en el que se les pide a los escolares que envíen una noticia, la hija del abogado local Carson Drew, Nancy, intercepta una asignación de historia real. Ella "cubre" la investigación de la muerte de una mujer que fue envenenada. Nancy no cree que la joven acusada del crimen sea culpable y acorrala a su vecino Ted para que busque una evidencia vital y tropieza con la identidad del verdadero asesino.
Train Passenger
Dos hermanos pilotos de aviación se disputan la misma mujer.
Effie Schneider, Drew's Maid
Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy becomes a "widow" in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.
Mildred
Un estudiante de Harvard corteja a una compañera de otra universidad cercana.
Mrs. Jenkins
La reportera Jean Christy trabaja para un periódico que está a punto de quebrar debido a las desavenencias entre Pat Buckley, el propietario, y Robert Lansford, el editor jefe. Mientras tanto, Lansford, que aspira a trabajar para otro director, le hace publicidad en el periódico de Buckley con el fin de ganarse así su confianza.
Woman Bailiff
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Mrs. Pinkel
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
Ellen
Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property...which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers.
Mrs. Hepplethwaite
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Madame Courtois
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Maid (uncredited)
A la muerte del propietario de un periódico de Nueva York, hereda el negocio su pariente más próximo, Martha Aldrich, una profesora de Nebraska. Aunque desconoce el negocio, decide intentar tomar las riendas.
