Dorothy Tree
Nacimiento : 1906-05-21, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Muerte : 1992-02-13
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Dorothy Tree (May 21, 1906 – February 13, 1992) was an American actress, voice teacher and writer. She appeared in a wide range of character roles in at least 49 motion pictures between 1927 and 1951.
Her best-known roles were probably as Martha, mother of Knute Rockne, in Knute Rockne, All American and as May Emmerich, invalid wife of Louis Calhern, in The Asphalt Jungle.
After being blacklisted as a communist because of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings, she began a second career as a voice teacher in New York. Emphasizing good diction and clarity, and the subtleties of intonation, she published four books on the subject.
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Marie Elsner
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
Caraway Secretary (uncredited)
Lily es una mujer que llega a Nueva York con el firme propósito de convertirse en una modelo. Las cosas le van bien y triunfa en su carrera. Además se siente atraída por un hombre casado con una mujer que se ha quedado inválida.
Ellen's Mother
Película sobre la difícil reincorporación a la vida civil de los soldados parapléjicos a causa de las heridas recibidas en la guerra. Norm es uno de ellos y ha perdido completamente la esperanza y las ganas de vivir. Cuando se enamora de una muchacha y decide casarse con ella, recupera la ilusión y la esperanza de la recuperación
May Emmerich
La meticulosa planificación de un atraco a una joyería por parte de una banda de delincuentes le sirve a Huston para ofrecer un poderoso relato lleno de intensidad, amén de un realista e insuperable estudio de personajes y sus motivaciones. Sin lugar a dudas, una de los mejores películas del cine negro de todos los tiempos, con el gran Hayden y una seductora y sexy Marilyn Monroe.
Frieda Miles
Una mujer descubre que padece una enfermedad terminal y decide ocultárselo a su familia y hacer que los pocos meses que le quedan de vida sean los más felices para sus seres queridos.
Nurse Clark
Casanova Q. Brown, profesor de historia de una pequeña ciudad, está a punto de casarse con Magde Ferris, cuando recibe noticias de Isabel, su anterior esposa, que le comunica que es padre de un niño.
Pearl Adams
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Solveig Brategaard (uncredited)
Dos años después de la invasion de Noruega por los nazis, los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo pesquero esperan la llegada de armas para iniciar la revuelta contra los alemanes. Karen Stensgard, la hija del médico del pueblo, y Gunnar Brogge, un pescador que pensaba combatir a los nazis desde Inglaterra, serán los jefes de la sublevación.
Else von Brandt
Un grupo de matones es contratado por un millonario para que, nada menos, vayan a Alemania y maten a Hitler.
Miss Harper
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Bella, Salvo's Moll
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Mrs. Bennett
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Mrs. Van Avery
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
Martha Rockne
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Kathe
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Clara Stone
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
Elizabeth Edwards
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Charlotte Ronnell
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Reni Vonich
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Hilda Kleinhauer
Un agente del FBI (Robinson) investiga una amplia red de espionaje nazi que opera en Estados Unidos. Sus contactos llegarán hasta Suramérica y Europa. Se trata de una de las pocas películas del género antinazi rodadas antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, época en la que los Estados Unidos y, por consiguiente, Hollywood seguían una política aislacionista.
Valerie Edwards
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
Lady Photographer
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Alma Platt
Dos actores que interpretan el papel de detectives se verán involucrados en un asesinato en el hotel en el que acaban de registrarse.
Mme. Dufresne
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
Clara (Uncredited)
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Mrs. Massarene
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.
Frances
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Mme. Moreau
Siglo XVIII, El célebre actor inglés David Garrick (Brian Aherne) anuncia, con prepotencia y arrogancia, que irá a París para enseñar los actores franceses el arte de la interpretación. Entonces los miembros del grupo teatral de la Comedia Francesa deciden darle una lección.
Woman in Raid (uncredited)
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.
Daphne Roth
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the resistance of the lad's surviving relatives, who worry that growing in the Navy will be hard on the boy, the officer loves and takes good care of the boy. At least he does until the child is abducted by a gangster who has mistaken him for his long-lost boy. Fortunately for the young fellow, the officer rallies the entire Navy and comes to the rescue.
Blackie Winters
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
Marion Courtney, aka Mary Court
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Mae Danish
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
Kiki
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Mittie Federie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
Mrs. Olga Goodyear
A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.
Mrs. Jolan Brandt
Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.
Adelaide, the King's Daughter
Dolores Del Rio plays 18th-century French courtesan DuBarry like a 20th-century golddigger on the make. Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon (Victor Jory), former street waif DuBarry charms her way into the heart -- and boudoir -- of gouty King Louis XV (Reginald Owen).
Lucy Benton
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
Ruby Steele
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
Ilka
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
Countess Olga Andrei Misitalsky
Un hombre tímido y apocado finge ser un sofisticado hombre de mundo cuando recibe la visita de un antiguo compañero de la universidad.
Gladys
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
Kitty Green
A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unfold. Borrowed money, a lovelorn chorus girl, and a tragic misunderstanding set in motion the chain of events in East of Fifth Avenue’s tender pageant of life.
Rita (uncredited)
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Cecily Reid
A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.
Bride of Dracula (in catacombs) (archive footage) (uncredited)
El conde Drácula cambia su residencia desde los Cárpatos a occidente. Para ello se procura la ayuda del abogado Renfield que le visita para acompañarle en su mudanza como servidor. Una vez instalado, conoce a una joven, ya prometida, de quién se enamora. Comenzará a visitarla por las noches, para ir bebiendo su sangre poco a poco, y convertirla así en su esposa. Pero el malestar que sufre la joven alerta a su familia, que contacta con el doctor Van Helsing... Versión alternativa al Drácula de Tod Browning interpretado por Bela Lugosi, que se grabó simultáneamente a la versión de habla inglesa, usando de noche los mismos estudios cuando el equipo de Browning terminaba su jornada diaria de rodaje. Fue el primer y último intento de la Universal de intentar abarcar el mercado hispano.
Dracula's Bride (uncredited)
El conde Drácula abandona los Cárpatos y se traslada a Londres, llevándose como sirviente a un contable. Una vez instalado, se enamora de una joven que ya está prometida. Empieza a a visitarla por las noches y va bebiendo su sangre poco a poco para convertirla así en su esposa. Pero el malestar que sufre la joven alerta a su familia, que busca la ayuda del doctor Van Helsing.
Waltham Employee (uncredited)
En el departamento de almacenes Waltham, la humilde dependienta Betty Lou se desmaya sobre Cyrus Waltham Junior, distinguido señorito, hijo del propietario. Betty tiene "ello" (atractivo sexual) en abundancia, pero conseguir llamar la atención de Cyrus no es una empresa sencilla. Finalmente, sus ardientes y pasionales miradas comienzan a hacer efecto. Por supuesto, desconociendo haber intervenido. ¿Pueden una mujer que ama los perritos calientes de Coney Island y un hombre que cena en el Ritz llegar a juntar sus caminos alguna vez?