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Amanda Duff

Nacimiento : 1914-03-06, Fresno - California - USA

Muerte : 2006-04-06

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Amanda Duff was born on March 6, 1914 in Fresno, California. She was an actress, known for The Devil Commands (1941), Just Around the Corner (1938) and Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939). She was married to Philip Dunne. She died on April 6, 2006 in San Francisco, California. After abandoning her acting career, she turned to photography in the 1940s. Her photographs of American children ended up part of designer Charles Eames and Ray Eames' multi screen presentation at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Amanda was also active in local California politics, the League of Women Voters and the Audubon Society. The Malibu home she shared with husband/screenwriter/director Philip Dunne was a social and political gathering salon for Hollywood's liberal elite for decades, particularly during the Cold War.

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Películas

The Devil Commands

Anne Blair

Un científico se ve obsesionado con la posibilidad de comunicarse con su esposa ya muerta y utiliza a su hija como medium, durante un peligrosa experiencia que ya ha costado la vida a otro medium.

City of Chance

Lois Carlyle Blane

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

The Escape

Juli Peronni

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.

Hotel for Women

Receptionist

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

Mr. Moto in Danger Island

Joan Castle

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.

The Three Musketeers

Undetermined Role

A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

Just Around the Corner

Lola Ramsby

Penny ayuda a su padre arquitecto idealista a conseguir su sueño de un proyecto de limpieza de barrios marginales; La pequeña señorita baila con el cabo Jones.