Isabel Jewell
Nacimiento : 1907-07-19, Shoshone, Wyoming, USA
Muerte : 1972-04-05
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Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her most famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gone With the Wind. After years in theater stock companies, including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska, she hit the big time after getting a part on Broadway in Up Pops the Devil (1930). She received glowing critical reviews for Blessed Event (1932) as well.
Jewell's film debut came in Blessed Event (1932). She had been brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers for the film version of Up Pops the Devil. Jewell gained other supporting roles, appearing in a variety of films in the early 1930s. She played stereotypical gangsters' women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). She was well received playing against type, as the seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine along with Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Jewell's films included Gone with the Wind (1939) (in the role of "that white trash, Emmy Slattery"), Northwest Passage (1940), High Sierra (1941), and the low-budget The Leopard Man (1943).
By the end of the 1940s, her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited, e.g. The Snake Pit. She performed in radio dramas in the 1950s, including This is Your FBI.
In 1972, Jewell appeared opposite Edie Sedgwick in the film Ciao! Manhattan. Her final film was the B movie Sweet Kill (1973), the directorial debut of Curtis Hanson, a future Academy Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Mummy
Warhol superstar and icon of sixties bohemia Edie Sedgwick delivers her final performance in this semiautobiographical look at the price of fame. Fiction and documentary—including snippets from Sedgwick’s own audio dairies—mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar (Sedgwick), a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral. Released after her death from an overdose of barbiturates, CIAO! MANHATTAN endures as a testament to Sedgwick’s unique magnetism and as a haunting elegy for the counterculture she embodied.
Mrs. Cole
Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.
'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Ruby McDuff
A teenager pines for (and sings about) his dream girl.
Lily White
En 1870, unos años después de la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), el Presidente de los Estados Unidos, U. Grant, confía a Johnny McKay (Alan Ladd) la misión de llevar la paz al sur de Oregón, donde una tribu india dirigida por el capitán Jack (Bronson) ha abandonado la reserva arrasándolo todo a su paso.
Katy
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
Belle Starr
Un forajido asesina a Belle Star y culpa de ello al sheriff del pueblo. Poco después llegará su hija para vengar su muerte.
Mrs Laura Nelson
A young crippled girl and her love for a teenage newsboy despite her over-protective and alcoholic mother's objections.
Hysterical Mother
El espítiru navideño parece dominarlo todo, pero no tiene cabida en el hogar del obispo Henry Brougham. En su lucha por recaudar fondos para construir una nueva catedral, el joven clérigo ha desatendido de tal manera a su afectuosa esposa Julia, que ahora lo único que puede salvar su matrimonio es un milagro. Pero el poderoso ángel envíado desde el cielo no se conformará con darle a Henry una lección inmortal de romanticismo
Laury Palmer
En Reno (Nevada), Helen Brent (Claire Trevor), una mujer fría y calculadora acaba de recibir una demanda de divorcio. Esa misma noche, se produce un doble asesinato en su barrio: Sam Wild (Lawrence Tierney), un atractivo psicópata, mata sin motivo alguno a una pareja. Para no verse involucrada en el asunto, al día siguiente, Helen coge un tren para San Francisco, pero Sam ha tenido la misma idea
Belle Starr
Durante la creación de los Estados Unidos de América, una franja de tierra olvidada entre los Territorios Indios y los Estados de Colorado, Kansas, Nuevo México y Texas se convierte en el refugio y hogar de gran parte de los forajidos más famosos y despiadados del Salvaje Oeste. Allí deberá ir el Sheriff Mark Rowley (Randolph Scott) en busca de su hermano y ayudante John (James Warren), quien tras ser traicionado por el despiadado Marshal Bill Hampton (Morgan Conway), tuvo que huir con la banda del forajido Jesse James (Lawrence Tierney) a la ciudad de Quinto, en el corazón del Territorio de Forajidos. Tras llegar a Quinto, Mark Rowley conocerá a Henryetta Alcott (Ann Richards), la comprometida editora del periódico local que lucha por traer la legislación del estado en creación de Oklahoma a su tierra sin ley...
Mae
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Jenny the Juke
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
Rose
Historia de una compañía de vodevil compuesta por la famila Monahan durante las dos primeras décadas del siglo XX.
Mary Phoebus
La Estudiante de un selecto internado de señoritas Jane Harris (Amelita Ward), hará todo lo posible para que el halcón investige el presunto asesinato de un profesor del centro. El docente ha muerto en extrañas circunstancias, y el halcón se hará cargo de la investigación dentro del campus.
Marie
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
Frances Fallon
Mary (Kim Hunter), una joven provinciana, decide ir a Nueva York para buscar a su hermana Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), que ha desaparecido. Con la ayuda de su ex marido (Tom Conway) y de un prestigioso psiquiatra, Mary descubre horrorizada que la desaparición de su hermana está relacionada con una secta satánica. (FILMAFFINITY)
Maria the Fortune Teller
Algunos habitantes de una pequeña ciudad de Nuevo México aparecen muertos. El principal sospechoso es un enorme leopardo.
Amy Devore
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
Blonde
Roy Earle sale de prisión antes de cumplir condena gracias a su buena conducta y a la fianza depositada por Big Mac, jefe de la banda a la que perteneció. Poco después, un miembro de la banda le comunica que Big Mac, que prepara un nuevo golpe, le espera en California. Roy, pese a su intención de cambiar de vida, decide acudir a la cita. En su viaje a través del país, entabla amistad con una humilde familia de granjeros, cuya nieta, Vilma, conquista su corazón.
Stella
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Linda Harkness
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
Esther Harrington
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Edith Drake
Steve Burton es un implacable reportero que está metido hasta las cejas en una espeluznante historia. El periodista dedica cada uno de sus esfuerzos a sacar a la luz un oscuro negocio de venta de bebés. Se trata de un tinglado que, de manera ilegal, convence a mujeres embarazadas para que den en adopción a sus hijos, que, posteriormente, ellos venden a otras parejas.
Jane McGee
Irene O'Dare, empleada de un tapicero, conoce al rico Don Marshall mientras mide las sillas de la señora Herman Vincent en su finca de Long Island. Encantado por la jovencita, Don compra anónimamente Madame Lucy, una exclusiva boutique de Manhattan, e instruye al nuevo encargado, el Sr. Smith, para que ofrezca a Irene un trabajo como modelo. Ella pronto llama la atención de Bob Vincent, un famoso cuya madre organiza un baile en la mansión familiar. Con el fin de promover la línea de vestir de Madame Lucy, el Sr. Smith se las arregla para que sus modelos sean invitadas a la fiesta.
Jennie Coit
Un joven que aspira a convertirse en pintor acaba alistándose en un regimiento del ejército. El mayor Rogers, al mando de la unidad, trata de encontrar un paso que cruce desde el continente americano al noroeste.
Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress
In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
Emmy Slattery
Georgia, 1861. En la elegante mansión sureña de Tara, vive Scarlett O'Hara, la joven más bella, caprichosa y egoísta de la región. Ella suspira por el amor de Ashley, pero él está prometido con su prima, la dulce y bondadosa Melanie. Corren todavía tiempos felices en Tara, pero por poco tiempo, porque la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) está a punto de estallar. En la última fiesta, celebrada antes del comienzo de las hostilidades entre el norte y el sur, Scarlett conoce al simpático, cínico y apuesto Rhett Butler, un vividor arrogante y aventurero, que sólo piensa en sí mismo y que no tiene ninguna intención de participar en el conflicto. Lo que él desea es hacerse rico y conquistar el corazón de la hermosa Scarlett.
Peggy
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
Molly Herkimer
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
Mrs. Martin
Un joven boxeador se ve atrapado entre un mafioso y un mal padre cuando empieza a salir con la hija del jefe, aunque ella no sabe cómo su padre se gana la vida.
Myrtle Montrose
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
Belle Huntley
The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't want to play along until he is given the honor of choosing his own Miss Brooklyn.
Emmy Lou Eagan
El mafioso Johnny Vanning dirige un ostentoso club nocturno de Nueva York en el que explota a sus chicas y las tiene atemorizadas. Mary incita a un juerguista a ganar más dinero del que tiene y, cuando no puede pagar, le matan. El fiscal del distrito, David Graham, convencido de que el caso está ganado, lleva a Vanning a juicio.
Gloria Stone
Varios pasajeros, entre los que se encuentra un joven diplomático inglés, sobreviven a un accidente aéreo en el Himalaya. Cuando creen que la muerte es inevitable, son rescatados por los habitantes de Shangri-La, una idílica y utópica comunidad que vive oculta en el Tíbet. Mientras la II Guerra Mundial amenaza al mundo, ellos descubrirán un lugar donde la gente vive feliz y sin envejecer.
Gracie Clay
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
Gladys
Mavis Arden (Mae West) es una estrella de cine. Su fama la precede por todo el mundo, y sus numerosas apariciones públicas dan fe de su popularidad. De camino a casa, volviendo de una de esas apariciones, su automóvil se avería. Da orden a su agente de publicidad (Warren William) de que le encuentre un lugar para alojarse, pues sospecha que él habría provocado la avería para mantenerla alejada de un hombre. Sin embargo, pronto se ve suspirando por un atractivo mecánico del pueblo (Randolph Scott) y escuchando sus ideas sobre la creación de equipos de cine.
Lilli Eipper
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Peggy Russell
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
Jeanie Benson
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Emily 'Em' Brannan
Kay, una humilde muchacha provinciana, conoce una noche a Bob Dakin, un joven millonario que ha bebido más de la cuenta y que, en ese estado, le propone matrimonio. A la mañana siguiente, una vez sobrio, se da cuenta del error que ha cometido e intenta salir del atolladero, pero no será tan fácil.
Bessie Blair
Danny Barr (Cary Grant) es un oficial de policía que está investigando el robo de unas joyas y el asesinato de un bebé. Su novia Eva Fallon (Joan Bennett), que es manicura, consigue un trabajo como reportera para ayudar a Danny a encontrar a los ladrones de joyas.
Brooklyn
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
Mabel Henry
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
Lou Clarke
Un piloto de avión especializado en transportar correo, a causa de la niebla, debe emprender un vuelo lleno de dificultades.
The Seamstress
Londres y París. Cuando Lucía viaja con su padre a Inglaterra, conoce a varios hombres que se enamoran de ella, entre ellos Sidney, un abogado inglés. Pero ella se casa con Carlos y ambos viven felices en Londres. Mientras tanto, en París, el caos y la agitación previos a la Revolución (1789) se adueñan de las calles. A pesar de ello, Carlos debe ir a París, pues van a condenar a alguien por su culpa y ha de impedirlo. Una vez allí, es encarcelado y condenado a morir en la guillotina.
Amelia
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
Babe
Toni viene de una pequeña ciudad de Iowa dispuesta a hacerse con el negocio de su difunto padre en Nueva York, relacionado con el mundo de las apuestas deportivas. Aunque los socios del fallecido tratan de quedarse con el negocio, Toni no está dispuesta a abandonar su meta tan fácilmente, y encuentra apoyo en un cantante y su novia.
Sally Van Loan
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
Inez
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Judith Wilson
Evelyn, esposa de un prestigioso abogado, mantiene un romance con un mujeriego sin escrúpulos. Éste intentará chantajear a Evelyn, para sacar el máximo provecho económico.
Sally Bates
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
Angy
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
Annabelle
Dos niños que han perdido a sus familias en un accidente son adoptados por el mismo padre. Sin embargo, el destino los llevará por caminos muy distintos y hará que se enamoren de la misma mujer.
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
Plunkett's Stenographer
George Curtis, pintor, y Tom Chambers, autor teatral, que comparten un piso en París, conocen en el tren que se dirige a esta ciudad a Gilda Farrell, americana como ellos y dibujante publicitaria. Ambos se enamoran inmediatamente de ella y, como Gilda es incapaz de decidirse por uno, deciden vivir un menage à trois.
Bessie Green
George Simon, un exitoso abogado judío de Manhattan, tiene que enfrentarse de repente a la infidelidad de su mujer y a su propio pasado.
Catherine Watson
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
Rose
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired from the column he starts to give crazy advice to the readers, but this only makes him even more popular.
Kate Lovett
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
A Girl Friend
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Hortense
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
Beulah
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
Dorothy Lane
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
