Frances Gifford
Nacimiento : 1919-12-07,
Muerte : 1994-01-15
Historia
Frances Gifford had a somewhat unorthodox introduction to the movie business. Born and raised in Long Beach, California, she had no ambition to be an actress, and in fact had applied to UCLA when, at age 16, she and a friend got to visit the Samuel Goldwyn Studios, where they watched a movie being shot. A studio exec saw her and asked if she would take a screen test. She did, the studio was impressed with the result and put her under contract. Nothing much came of it, however, other than bit parts, and she moved to RKO. Nothing much happened there, either. She had married actor James Dunn and decided to retire, which she did, in 1938. Off the screen for almost two years, she got a small part in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and her career began to revive. She was signed by Paramount, which soon loaned her to Republic, where she made the film she is probably most remembered for: the serial Jungle Girl (1941), based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story.
Unfortunately, her career never really took off, and she bounced around among several studios. In 1948 she was involved in an auto accident in which she received severe head injuries. Although she seemed to recover physically, her career took a nosedive, and she made her last film in 1953. In 1958 newspaper stories reported that as a result of the injuries sustained in the accident, she was admitted to a California state mental hospital. Nothing further was heard from her or about her until 1983, when a writer for a film magazine found her in Pasadena. She had apparently fully overcome her physical and mental problems and was working for the city library. She died of emphysema in Pasadena in 1994.
Doris
Dos cortos de animación clásicos de los estudios de Disney. En 'El Dragón Chiflado' (1941), un jovencito y un famoso luchador de dragones se unen para enseñar a un dragón dócil el arte de ser una fuerza a tener en cuenta. En 'Mickey y las Judías Mágicas' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy y Donald Duck enfrentan al temible Willie the Giant para intentar recuperar el arpa de canto mágico a Happy Valley.
Jo McWethy
Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war correspondent assigned to the squadron become more friendly than meets Wyatt's approval. When Wyatt's plane is forced down behind enemy lines, he orders his crew to proceed to the American lines with the vital film they have shot, while he remains behind to hold off the enemy.
Margaret Higgins
Un entrenador de hípica que pasa por una mala racha pone toda su confianza en su caballo para la próxima competición. No obstante, éste se escapa de su cuadra. Los problemas se complican cuando el sheriff del condado reclama a Dan su caballo al no haber hecho frente al pago de unas facturas. A medida que se acerca la hora del Derby, cuando tenía previsto competir su caballo "Broadway Bill", los nervios atenazan a Dan Brooks, quien una vez que ha recuperado a su caballo se encuentra con un nuevo imprevisto.
Laura Dene
Polly Bradford, la hija de un capitán de crucero de lujo, viaja como polizonte en el barco de su padre. El objetivo de la chica es encontrar una nueva pareja para él, viudo desde hace tiempo, antes de que termine el trayecto.
Jean Tukker
After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.
Anne Parkson
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
Dr. Ann Wotters
Una hermosa apostadora a carreras de caballos, con un método infalible, se enamora de un entrenador.
Viola Johnson
En un modesto pueblo, llamado Fuller Junction, viven los inmigrantes noruegos Martinius (Edward G. Robinson) y Bruna Jacobson (Agnes Moorehead), junto a su hija Selma (Margaret O'Brien), una pequeña de siete años que, con su primo Arnold ("Butch" Jenkins), nos hará pasar por emotivas (y a veces muy divertidas) aventuras. Cuando se entera de que su padre anhela tener un establo como el que acaba de montar uno de sus vecinos... la niña guardará la esperanza de que, un día, su entrañable padre va a tener uno como ése.
Maude Bancroft
Cynthia se casa con un rico hombre de negocios al que acompaña el éxito. Pero durante la luna de miel le abandona la suerte, y se arruina. Cynthia está triste, pero conoce a un encantador soldado, héroe de guerra, por el que se siente atraída. No sabe si quedarse con él o con su marido...
Sissy Mortimer
Una chica rica y mimada no está dispuesta a que el matrimonio se entrometa en su afición a perseguir a los hombres.
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Helen
II Guerra Mundial, Filipinas. Un grupo de enfermeras del ejército estadounidense necesita refuerzos urgentemente. La teniente Mary “Smitty” recibe a un equipo de voluntarias que carecen completamente de experiencia y deberá formarlas en unas circunstancias cada vez más complicadas: los conflictos entre ellas, el avance del ejército japonés y la malaria.
Hilary Dane
Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.
Zandra
Poco después de la partida de Jane Parker hacia Inglaterra, Tarzán y su hijo Boy reciben la petición de ayuda de Zandra, hija del rey de la ciudad perdida de Palandria, cuyo pueblo acaba de ser invadido y esclavizado por tropas nazis. Sin embargo, Tarzán decide permanecer al margen y se limita a "confiscar" una radio portátil de los alemanes. Pero cuando un destacamento de soldados al mando del coronel nazi Von Reichart, buscando la radio, secuestra a Boy, Tarzán decide romper su aislamiento y combatir al III Reich, que amenaza expandirse por su selva.
Abigail 'Abby' Taylor, Dan's Sister
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
Grace Saunders
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
Nurse
Durante la campaña para la reelección, el político corrupto Paul Madvig decide limpiar su pasado, rechazando el apoyo del gángster Nick Varna y asociándose con el respetable político reformista Ralph Henry. Cuando el hijo de Ralph, Taylor Henry, un jugador y el amante de la hermana de Pablo Opal, es asesinado, el brazo derecho de Paul, Ed Beaumont, encuentra su cuerpo en la calle. Nick utiliza la situación financiera de The Observer para forzar al editor Clyde Matthews a utilizar el periódico para sembrar la sospecha de que Paul Madvig podría haber matado a Taylor
Charlotte (uncredited)
Una mujer que ha permanecido en una isla desierta desde que sus padres fueran asesinados por una manada de furiosos elefantes, es rescatada y llevada de nuevo a San Francisco, donde tiene que reclamar su herencia.
Ruth Grant
Wyatt Earp limpia Tombstone y se enfrenta a los Clanton en O.K. Corral.
Miss Halsey
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Frances Gifford (uncredited)
Pop, un guardia de seguridad de Paramount le dijo a su hijo que él es el jefe del estudio. Las cosas se vuelven más complicadas cuando Pop acepta organizar un espectáculo para la Marina protagonizado por las principales estrellas de la Paramount.
Nyoka Meredith
Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith. With his infant daughter, he settles in the African jungle, where his ability to cure the native ills has resulted in his virtual control of the Masamba tribes, who possess vast diamond mines coveted by a gang of crooks.
Daphne
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Doris
Un entrañable dragón se distingue del resto de su especie porque no se siente violento ni malvado. Antes que atacar a los seres humanos, prefiere entretenerse en cantar canciones o recitar poesía. Un día aparece un famoso caballero andante, que le enseñará a combatir.
Helen Forbes
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss, and so are the vigilantes.
Mary Mulvaney
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Granville Girl
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Brenda Gordon
Air-race champions "Speed" Leslie and Branda Fowler combine to open a very profitable airplane service that flies patients to other cities for special treatment. Gangsters soon move in and offer to take over, without an invitation.
Hopper Girl (uncredited)
Jefferson Smith, un joven ingenuo e idealista, que parece fácilmente manipulable, es nombrado senador. Ignora que en Washington tendrá que vérselas con políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos que le harán perder la fe. Sin embargo, gracias a su secretaria, una joven que conoce muy bien los entresijos de la política, protagoniza en el Senado una espectacular y maratoniana intervención en la que, además de defender apasionadamente la democracia, pone en evidencia una importante trama de corrupción.
Salesgirl (uncredited)
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Nightclub Patron
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
Bus Passenger
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
Showgirl
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
