Sheila Bromley
Nacimiento : 1911-10-31, San Francisco, California, USA
Muerte : 2003-07-23
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Sheila Bromley, (October 31, 1911 – July 23, 2003) was an American television and film actress. She is best known for her roles in B-movies, mostly Westerns of the era.
Born in San Francisco, California, she began her career in the 1930s under contract with Monogram Pictures. She was first billed as Sheila LeGay starring in 1930 westerns alongside Tom Tyler. She frequently co-starred with Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Cody, and Dick Foran. She starred alongside Bill Cody in Land of Wanted Men (1932), John Wayne in Westward Ho (1935), Lawless Range (1935) and Idol of the Crowds (1937). In 1944 Bromley appeared in the touring production of Good Night Ladies. On television she guest-starred in episodes of Rawhide, I Love Lucy, and Perry Mason.
During World War II she worked often for the USO, continuing that service until the war ended in 1945. There she met her husband Jairus Bellamy.
She is credited with seventy-five films in her career, of which seventeen were westerns, for which she is best known. Bromley retired from films and lived in the Greater Los Angeles Area until her death in 2003, aged 91.
Mrs. Baynes
Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have car trouble and are stuck all night out in the desert. The next morning cheerful Andre offers them help in fixing their car. However, Andre is really a maniac with a lot of family problems; his mother ran out on him when he was a child so now he keeps kidnapped women chained up in his barn and trains them to perform circus tricks. Andre's father is still around of course, but because the old homestead is next to a nuclear test site he has been transformed into a raving homicidal mutant that Andre keeps locked up in a shed.
Mrs. Grandin
El elegante y prestigioso hotel St. Gregory de Nueva Orleáns, propiedad del temperamental aristócrata Warren Trent, pasa por serias dificultades económicas. Su apuesto director, Peter McDermott, un profesional impecable, se esfuerza por mantener a flote el establecimiento, pero Curtis O'Keefe, un magnate sin escrúpulos, está dispuesto a todo con tal de incluir el St. Gregory en su cadena hotelera.
Mrs. Winters
The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, bragging that they know the Beatles, the girls plan a concert with the Fab Four as the main attraction.
Mrs. Harkness
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
Mrs. Ives (uncredited)
En 1948, tres años después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), cuatro jueces, cómplices de la política nazi de esterilización y limpieza étnica, van a ser juzgados en Nuremberg. Sobre Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy), un juez norteamericano retirado, recae la importante responsabilidad de presidir este juicio contra los crímenes de guerra nazis.
Mrs. Samuels
When Missouri farm boy Jesse James witnesses the lynching of his father by the Yankees, he forsakes his family's homestead to find his brother Frank, a soldier in Quantrill's Raiders, a renegade band of Confederates. Bent on revenge, Jesse begs to join the raiders.
Lucy Husack
Rechazado por todos en su pueblo natal, un sargento de la I Guerra Mundial emigra a Alaska en busca de una oportunidad; no tarda en entablar amistad con un pescador, que lo admite en su tripulación....
Mrs. Sutter
After deceitful Indian agent Grat Bandas has his men shoot Brother Van, gunfighter Linc Prescott saves the peaceful circuit rider and agrees to help him put a stop to Bandas's plans to start an Indian war and grab their land for himself. Meanwhile, Prescott takes a shine to the daughter of a local rancher.
Linda Mitchell
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest.
Marie
Un pistolero salva la vida de un sheriff. Sin embargo, cuando al poco tiempo, el pistolero entra en el pueblo del sheriff, éste se ve en la tesitura de ceder a la presión de sus ciudadanos contra el pistolero o devolver la deuda contraída con él.
Mrs. Mallinson
A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, but fears he doesn't have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, Shea decides to work with crooked fight-promoter Harry Cram, even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As the big fight approaches, however, Shea begins to have second thoughts.
Woman from Pasadena
Clifford Groves (Fred MacMurray), es un fabricante de juguetes, cansado de la rutina y con la impresión de no ser debidamente apreciado por su mujer (Joan Bennett) y sus hijos. Se reencuentra con una antigua amiga, Norma Miller Vale (Barbara Stanwyck), a la que no ve desde hace veinte años, y a raíz de ello comienza a replantearse su vida. Su hijo (William Reynolds) comienza a sospechar que puede haber algo más entre ellos.
Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
Norman Maine, un famoso actor adicto al alcohol, descubre a Esther, una joven con un gran talento para la canción y decide impulsar su carrera cinematográfica. Ella consigue la fama y, a los pocos meses, la pareja contrae matrimonio. Pero, a medida que el éxito de Esther aumenta, decae el de Norman, y esta situación lo empuja a la autodestrucción.
Lois Morny
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
Ruby Patterson
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Doris Delafield
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Julie Mancini
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
Poison Mary Slavish
A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship.
Jackie McGuire
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Marie Cordell
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
Elsie Barlow
Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.
Frieda Boreman
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Bonnie Lucas
Mientras participa en un concurso del periódico local en el que se les pide a los escolares que envíen una noticia, la hija del abogado local Carson Drew, Nancy, intercepta una asignación de historia real. Ella "cubre" la investigación de la muerte de una mujer que fue envenenada. Nancy no cree que la joven acusada del crimen sea culpable y acorrala a su vecino Ted para que busque una evidencia vital y tropieza con la identidad del verdadero asesino.
Hilda Engstrom
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Flo Russell
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
Mrs. Regan
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
Terice Von Elm
When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to get to the bottom of the case.
Nona Gregg
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
Grace Sandford
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.
Connie Madison
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Gladys Wagner (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.
Peggy Reitter
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
Gladys Wagner
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Susan Oakhurst
When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggings. But when they strike it rich the money is gambled away instead.
Lola Galt
American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
Helen Dale
Johnny desea ganar más dinero para agrandar su granja de pollos. Para ello, juega al hockey, pero unos gangsters se interponen en su camino.
Mrs. John Jones
Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of indigestion, didn't speak to him when he came to work on Friday and is convinced he is going to get fired.
Ada
An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out. Thinking he's killed him and believing that the police are after him, the horrified boxer runs off and takes to the road, promising never to box again. However, one day he comes upon a small but scrappy young kid who has the potential to be a champion. The former boxer takes the kid under his wing and trains him, but the kid's ensuing success starts to go to his head. Pretty soon he finds himself mixed up with gamblers, too.
Hazel
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
Sally Flint
A secret apparatus that controls bombs by remote control is stolen from a laboratory. A federal agent is assigned to recover it, and his investigation leads him to a creepy mansion that is honeycombed with secret passage ways.
Jean Halloran
Billy Donovan arrives looking for his sister's killer. When he hires on at the Halloran ranch where the mysterious Phantom has killed all the hands, it's not long before the Phantom shoots him.
Fanny
Drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.
Ann Mason
John Middleton está investigando un robo de ganado, cuando es capturado y arrojado a una cueva junto a un ranchero que había desaparecido. Escapan y averiguan que el banquero del pueblo está intentando asustar a la población para apoderarse de unas minas de oro secretas.
Barbara Roberts
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Mary Gordon
Mientras busca a su hermano, separados desde su niñez, John Wyatt forma un grupo de vigilantes para coger a un grupo de proscritos. Mientras sigue el rastro, tendrá un cara a cara con el líder de la cuadrilla: su propio hermano.
Mary
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement in America.
Lorraine Matthews
Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad's henchmen. Newspaper reporter Jerry Mason witnesses the robbery and steals the cash from Conrad.
Puppet Assistant
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Ruth Allen
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
Dolores Ortega
Cowboy Tim Hamlin arrives in a town plagued by a gang of cattle rustlers.
Sonia's Maid (uncredited)
Sonia es una viuda, inmensamente rica, de Marshovia, pequeño país centro europeo del que controla la mitad de la riqueza. El país depende de que ella gaste su dinero en él, así que, cuando se traslada a París porque no logra encontrar marido, el rey envía al Conde Danilo a cortejarla y traerla de vuelta. Si no lo consigue, se le formará consejo de guerra.
Actress
Jerry Beall, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara Hammond, a girl accused of murdering a female radio-star, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence, abetted by the lack of truth in many of Barbara's statements. But Barbara winds up in a romantic clinch instead of the electric chair, after a series of sequences that reveal the fallacy of jumping to conclusions.
Telephone Operator
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
May (Uncredited)
Película inspirada en la novela de Stefan Zweig “Carta de una desconocida”. La protagonista es una mujer que es seducida en dos ocasiones por el mismo hombre, sin que éste la reconozca la segunda vez.
Equestrienne Wearing Black Vest (uncredited)
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Ruth Avery
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
'Red' (uncredited)
Mike es un pescador atunero de origen portugués que en una ocasión perdió una mano, cuando intentaba salvar a su amigo Pipes Boley. Ahora Mike está felizmente casado con Quita, hija de un marinero que sirvió de pasto a los tiburones, y no se da cuenta de que su mujer y Pipes están enamorados.
Wagstaff's Receptionist (uncredited)
Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho), el nuevo director del prestigioso Huxley U, contrata a dos ineptos, Baravelli y Pinky, para ayudar a su escuela a ganar un partido de fútbol frente a su rival Darwin U.
Nancy Thomas
In order to find out who is smuggling guns to the Indians, an army officer pretends to have been demoted and hold a grudge against the army, hoping that the smugglers will try to contact him and take him into their gang.
Colette's Downstairs Maid (uncredited)
El doctor André Bertier y Colette, su esposa, viven felices hasta que Mitzi Olivier, una coqueta amiga del colegio de aquélla, les hace una visita. Mediante intrigas, Mitzi consigue quedarse a solas con André, fingiéndose enferma, e intenta seducirle, pero el marido de ella, el profesor Olivier, ha contratado a un detective para que recoja pruebas de las infidelidades de Mitzi.
Party Guest (Uncredited)
Una chica rica de la alta sociedad neoyorkina con fama de aburrida se da cuenta de que se es mucho más popular entre los hombres cuando se pretende ser una chica "mala". De viaje en París conoce a Guy, un joven americano arruinado que le ayudará a inventarse esa "mala" fama para llamar la atención de la sociedad en la que se mueve y en particular la de su amado Donnie.
Jane Adams
Bill Dane and Banty quit Kell's outlaw gang. When Dane prevents Kell and his men from getting a bullion shipment, he is made Sheriff. Learning Dane is Sheriff, Kell and gang return, force Dane to give them the bullion, and make Dane a prisoner. Escaping, Dane trails the gang and engages them in a gunfight while his horse Tarzan goes for help.
Carrie
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Party Girl (uncredited)
Con un argumento parecido a 'Hollywood al desnudo', rodado un año después, dos señoritas llamadas Wanda y Marie llegan a la ciudad de Nueva York deseosas de convertirse en actrices.
Cynthia
A cowboy takes a job as sheriff in a small town and finds that one of his first jobs is trying to stop trouble between newly arrived sheepmen and local cattle ranchers, who don't want the sheep grazing on "their" range.
Gloria
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
June Manners
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
Dave Brandon (Tom Tyler) tries to break away from his life of crime, but his old gang won't let him.
Tod Walker takes Rex Carson's map to a gold mine and leaves him in the desert. Carson recuperates at Jean Walker's ranch and she takes a liking to him. But when her uncle Tod arrives, he claims Carson tried to jump his claim. She sides with her uncle and Carson, banished from the Walker ranch, sets out to get his claim back.
