Almira Sessions

Almira Sessions

出生 : 1888-09-16, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

死亡 : 1974-08-03

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ウイラード
Carrie Smith
ソクラテスとベンと名付けた2匹の鼠を飼う孤独な青年ウィラードは、私的な復讐のために鼠を使って人を襲わせるが……。スティーヴン・ギルバードの小説『ねずみ男の手帖』の映画化。
Watermelon Man
Woman On Bus
Jeff Gerber, a racist insurance agent and fitness freak, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself, when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him.
… tick… tick… tick…
Townswoman
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
The Over-the-Hill Gang
Mrs. Fletcher
A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.
The Boston Strangler
Emma Hodak
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
The Last of the Secret Agents?
Middle-Aged Lady at Topless a Go-Go (uncredited)
Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty.
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Woman (uncredited)
A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tanant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.
Summer and Smoke
Committee Woman (uncredited)
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
The Female Animal
Mabel (uncredited)
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...
Calling Homicide
Mrs. Ida Dunsetter
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?
理由なき反抗
Planetarium Teacher (uncredited)
ジェームズ・ディーン主演による彼の代表的作品。酔った17歳の少年ジムが警官に捕まった。その晩に起こった集団暴行事件の容疑者として警察に連行された彼は、そこで美しいジュディと、まだ子供のようなプラトーと知り合う。間もなく二人は帰宅を許され、ジムも温情ある少年保護係のレイ主任の取り計らいで帰ることができたが、この三人の出会いは、やがて彼らの持つやり場のない苛立ちを露呈する事件へと結びついてゆく……。
いつも上天気
Desk Clerk at Longwood House (uncredited)
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
Hell's Outpost
Mrs. O'Sullivan's Companion (uncredited)
A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
Forever Female
Mother at Airport (uncredited)
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
Paris Model
Mrs. Boggs
A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Aunt Naomi
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.
The Blue Gardenia
Cleaning Lady
A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess.
Wagons West
Ada
Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Mrs. Mergatroyd (uncredited)
A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans.
Oklahoma Annie
Carrie Fudge
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
Here Comes the Groom
Wife on Airplane
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
The Old Frontier
Mrs. Smedley
Monte Hale is cast as town marshal Barney Regan. It is Barney's formidable task to round up a gang of bank robbers and expose the "Mr. Big" behind all the robberies.
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Mrs. Hardwig
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Kill the Umpire
Baseball Spectator (uncredited)
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.
Roseanna McCoy
Cousin Zinny
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
The Fountainhead
Dominique's Housekeeper at Quarry (uncredited)
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Night Unto Night
Hotel Maid
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
Dynamite
Jennie (uncredited)
Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at odds regarding safety precautions for their co-workers.
Ladies of the Chorus
Party Guest
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
Apartment for Peggy
Mrs. Landon
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
Arthur Takes Over
Mrs. Barnafogle
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.
気まぐれ天使
First Lady in Michel's
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
Merton of the Movies
Mammoth Studio's Nurse (uncredited)
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
殺人狂時代
Lena Couvais
大恐慌のために失業した銀行員ヴェルドゥの新事業とは? 結婚詐欺と連続殺人をブラック・ユーモアで描く異色のチャップリン喜劇。黒い笑いの中に込められているのは大量殺人に対する怒り……。
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Miss Claybourne
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Love and Learn
The Bride (uncredited)
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
素晴らしき哉、人生!
Potter's Secretary (uncredited)
主人公のジョージという男は、いつも何処かでツキに見放され、逆境にばかり立ち向かう運命にあった。自分のミスではなく大金を失った彼は、全てに絶望して自殺を図る。ところが、12月の冷たい河に飛び降りようとしたとき、彼より先に一人の男が身を投げて救けてくれと叫んだ。あわてて救けたジョージに、男は、自分は見習い天使だと告げるが……。
The Missing Lady
Miss Effie
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
Fear
Mrs. Williams - Landlady
B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Marianne
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
Woman Who Came Back
Bessie
A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.
The All-Star Bond Rally
Woman Next to Fibber in Audience
Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits.
The Southerner
Mrs. Burke
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
The Doughgirls
Hotel maid
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Mrs. Mariah Woodson (uncredited)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Maisie Goes to Reno
Lady with Reno Bus Ticket (Uncredited)
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Dixie Jamboree
Mrs. Ellabella Jackson, Susan's Aunt
A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.
Bathing Beauty
Ms. Phillips (uncredited)
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Aunt Maude
Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.
Madame Curie
Madame Michaud (uncredited)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
The Heat's On
Hannah Bainbridge
Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest production.
My Kingdom for a Cook
Hattie
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
Presenting Lily Mars
Boardinghouse Manager
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Slightly Dangerous
Peggy's landlady (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
牛泥棒
Miss Swanson (uncredited)
牧場主が殺されて牛が盗まれた、という街に通りかかった2人の放浪者。彼らは町民と協力して自警団を組み、牛を連れた怪しい3人組を追い詰めるが……。実話をもとに製作された重厚な西部劇。
Obliging Young Lady
Maid at Lake Mohawk Lodge
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Sullivan's Travels
Ursula Kornheiser
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Three Girls About Town
Tessie Conarchy, scrubwoman
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Sun Valley Serenade
Nurse
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
Blossoms in the Dust
Mrs. Brown
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
She Knew All the Answers
Elaine Wingate
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
Little Nellie Kelly
Nellie's Nurse Miss Corrigan (uncredited)
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
Paul Revere, Jr.
Townswoman
A drunken fool by the name of Paul Revere Wilson (or Williams or something) drinks too much and imagines himself living in 1776.
Wayward
Aunt Mary Lou Reed (uncredited)
Story of mother's antagonism to her son's wife. From the novel "Wild Beauty" by Matsel Farnham.
The Symphony Murder Mystery
Concert-Goer (uncredited)
A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?