Marjorie Rambeau
Nacimiento : 1889-07-15, San Francisco, California, USA
Muerte : 1970-07-06
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Marjorie Burnet Rambeau (July 15, 1889 – July 6, 1970) was an American film and stage actress. She began her stage career at age 12, and appeared in several silent films before debuting in her first sound film, Her Man (1930). She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Primrose Path (1940) and Torch Song (1953), and received the 1955 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in A Man Called Peter and The View from Pompey's Head.
Gert
La turbulenta vida y carrera profesional del actor de vodevil y estrella de terror del cine mudo Lon Chaney (1883-1930), el hombre de las mil caras; portador de muchas desgracias personales que ni siquiera su gran éxito pudo mitigar.
Mrs. Manley
A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer's career.
Lucy Devereaux Wales
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?
Miss Laura Fowler
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
Mrs. Roger Nelson
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
Elderly Stage Actress
Él (William Holden) es un autor teatral de gran fama, y ella (Ginger Rogers) una veterana estrella de la interpretación, que se encuentra en el momento culminante de su carrera, pero que tiene que hacer frente a la competencia de las jovencitas. Una de ellas, Sally (Pat Crowley), trata por todos los medios de ganarse la simpatía del escritor.
Mrs. Stewart
Jenny Stewart es una dura artista de musical, que no acepta críticas de nadie. Pero hay una persona, Tye Graham, un pianista ciego, que podría romper su dura coraza.
Mrs. Donner
Paula Consodine comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko, investigating on Paula's behalf, discovers that the sister is dead, a supposed suicide. The whole thing seems a bit fishy to Sitko, and indeed it is: the girl's death was engineered by a black-market adoption racket, headed by one DeCola.
Sarah Calbern
Melodrama sobre la adicción al juego en el cual, el propietario de un casino con problemas de conciencia intenta arreglar las cosas con su mujer e hijo. Cuando éste último comienza a tener malas compañías y entra en prisión, su padre le hace recapacitar para que no pierda la vida como él en negocios sucios y deudas de juego.
Hattie Hatfield
Un abogado asusta a unos gangsters al fingir la muerte de una cantante en la silla eléctrica.
Mrs. Dunham
En 1908, en la pequeña localidad de Jericho (Kansas), Dave Connors, el fiscal del condado que está casado con una mujer alcohólica, se siente atraído por Julia, una compañera de profesión. Al mismo tiempo es acosado por Algeria, la mujer de su amigo Tucker.
Anopheles Annie (voice)
A haggard mosquito complains how tough life is with the military taking the proper precautions against malaria infection.
Madam Europe
Una bailarina hace su debut en el Tivoli, como invitada del Duque de Prusia Von Bismark. Cuando llega la revolución de 1865, Mariana, que actúa bajo el nombre artístico de Salomé, debe huir del país.
Mrs. Shannahan
When Jerry Van Dyke, a young debutante, decides to marry Barney, an Army corporal, whom she met at a USO dance, her family objects and consequently, the couple are unable to obtain a marriage license because Jerry doesn't come of age for four days.
Lil Vanderhoven
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
Bessie Baxter (hotel proprietor)
El vaquero Dan Somers y el magnate del petroleo Jim "Hunk" Gardner compiten por obtener los derechos sobre el petróleo en tierra india en Oklahoma, así como por los favores de la maestra Cathy Allen
Lillian Rice
Antes de iniciarse en el cine, George Raft se vio envuelto en un caso de tiroteo entre bandas rivales sucedido en el club donde trabajaba de bailarín.
Aunt Lottie
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
Sister Bessie Rice
Jeeter Lester, un perezoso y pícaro padre de familia, es expulsado de sus tierras por no pagar la renta. Todo el que intenta ayudarle se ve abocado a la pobreza.
Mama Teresa Lorenzo
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
Annie
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Josie Johnson
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
Mamie Adams
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Ma Burton
U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ringleader is none other than sweet li'l ol' Ma Burton.
Sylvia Swan
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.
Mamie
Un oficinista de Nueva York se une a un vagabundo y a un inmigrante ilegal que se dirigen a unas tierras de Arizona que acaban de comprar.
Mrs. Simon
El médico hindú Rama Safti, después de hacer unas prácticas en Estados Unidos, regresa a su país para curar a los pobres de Ranchipur. Allí conoce a Lady Edwina, una mujer infelizmente casada, que intenta paliar su soledad con efímeras aventuras. La vida de ambos cambiará cuando se produzca un gran terremoto.
Elsie Patterson
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
Mrs. Kingsley
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Mrs. Harlan
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
Marjorie (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Belle Hardwick
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
Lillian Bennett / Lillian Marlowe
A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
Amelia 'Amy' Hardcastle
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
Goldie Tate
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
Daisy Hemingway
Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in love with a married woman.
Mme. Azais
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
Mayme Palooka
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
Flossie
Melodrama ambientado en Estados Unidos en la época de la Gran Depresión.
Hippolyta
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
Annie Gibson
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
Mame Kelsey
Historia de la rivalidad entre dos aviadores, tanto estando de servicio como no.
The Duchess
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
Mrs. Darsay
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
Ruby
Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens intenta suicidarse cuando Hamilton la abandona. Menos mal que aparece un predicador del Ejército de Salvación que está dispuesto a ocuparse de ella.
Peaches
El contrabandista y propietario de un club nocturno, Johnny Franks, recluta a un joven hombre llamado Louis Scorpio para unirse a su banda, que está liderada por el deshonesto abogado Richard Newton. Scorpio finalmente se hace cargo de la administración de Franks, vence a una banda rival, se vuelve rico y domina la ciudad por varios años, hasta que un grupo secreto de seis empresarios enmascarados lo procesan y lo envían a la silla eléctrica con la ayuda de su rival, el periodista Carl Luckner y Hank Rogers. La camarera Anne Courtland se debate entre su amor por el honesto periodista Rogers y su dependencia financiera de su generoso jefe, Scorpio.
Geneva
Lisbeth es una mujer moderna que piensa que el matrimonio está pasado de moda. Ella tiene dos hombres en su vida, Steve, que quiere casarse con ella y Alan, que quiere que viaje con él. A pesar de todas las advertencias de sus amigos y familiares, Lisbeth va a México con Alan, donde ella es feliz hasta que descubre que él tiene una esposa en París...
Kitty DuPuy
John Paul Bart plancha pantalones en una tintorería, pero sueña con llegar muy alto. Una noche toma prestada ropa de caballero y se cuela en una fiesta de la alta sociedad. Conoce a un millonario, y pronto asciende hasta la cumbre de la empresa...
Elfie St. Clair
Laura, que se ha criado en una humilde familia, harta de la pobreza decide aceptar a Will Brockton, un hombre rico y bastante mayor que ella. Poco tiempo después, Laura se enamora del joven Jack Madison y deja a Brockton; sin embargo, cuando el dinero vuelve a escasear, vuelve con él.
Lulu
Yvonne es una bella modelo que adora frecuentar los ambientes de la vida bohemia parisina, pues le encanta codearse con los artistas. Antes no se había avergonzado nunca de su pasado, pero ahora intentará borrarlo por amor.
Bella Pringle
Mins es la propietaria de un hotel costero donde vive Bill, el capitán de un barco costero. También vive y trabaja en el hotel Nancy, una joven que Min recogió años atrás cuando era una niña abandonada. (FILMAFFINITY)
Annie
A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.
Marjorie Rambeau
Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successful star-maker, calls her into his office to complain about her loud piano under him, and she haughty replies that if he gives her a chance on stage, she will do it.
America - Final episode
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.