Virginia Christine

Virginia Christine

Nascimento : 1920-03-05, Stanton, Iowa, U.S.

Morte : 1996-07-24

História

Virginia Christine Ricketts was an American stage and screen film actress. She began training for a theatrical career with actor/ director Fritz Feld whom she married in 1940. In 1942, she made her stage debut in the Los Angeles production of "Hedda Gabler". While performing in the play, she was spotted by an agent from Warner Bros. who signed her to a film contract with the studio. Virginia Christie appeared in more than 170 feature films and TV-productions.

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Virginia Christine
Virginia Christine

Filmes

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Miss Cummings
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
Daughter of the Mind
Helga
Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working.
Hail, Hero!
Eleanor Murchiston
Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.
In Enemy Country
Frau Gulden
Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
Adivinhe Quem Vem Para Jantar
Hilary St. George
Joey foi criada por seus pais para ter a mente aberta, mas a situação muda quando ela traz um noivo negro para casa. Embora decidida a se casar apesar de qualquer objeção, seu noivo quer a aprovação dos pais dela e dos seus também.
Billy the Kid versus Dracula
Eva Oster
Graças a sua imortalidade, Dracula desta vez, está na época mágica do velho oeste americano, onde apronta das suas, sugando o sangue de suas vítimas, indígenas ou brancos e, somente um homem, tem a coragem de enfrenta-lo. Filme de terror estrelado por John Carradine, no papel de vampiro, perdido numa pequena cidade do oeste.
Obsessão de Amar
Emma
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
Os Assassinos
Miss Watson
Dois assassinos profissionais são contratados para matar um piloto de corrida. Para surpresa de ambos, o piloto não reage e se deixa assassinar sem tentar escapar. Ao investigarem a razão para essa atitude, descobrem que a vítima estava envolvida em um grande assalto.
One Man's Way
Anna Peale
Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.
Os Quatro Heróis do Texas
Brunhilde
Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra) e Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin) são dois comerciantes rivais, que lutam pelo melhor cassino da cidade e pela atenção de duas belas donzelas.
Criminosos não Merecem Prêmio
Mrs. Bergh, Chaperon
Por alguma razão, o prêmio Nobel de literatura deste ano foi concedido ao jovem escritor Andrew Craig, que parece estar mais interessado em mulheres e bebidas do que em escrever. Outro vencedor é o Dr. Max Stratman, famoso físico germano-americano que vem a Estocolmo com sua jovem e bela sobrinha Emily. O Departamento de Relações Exteriores dá a Craig uma assistente, a Srta. Andersson. Craig logo percebe que o Dr. Stratman está agindo de forma estranha. Na segunda vez em que eles se encontram, o Dr. Stratman nem sequer o reconhece. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Cattle King
Mrs. Ruth Winters (Brassfield's Housekeeper)
A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
Incident in an Alley
Mrs. Connell
A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14-year-old boy but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he really is innocent after all.
Julgamento em Nuremberg
Mrs. Halbestadt
Após a 2ª Guerra Mundial, um juiz americano é convocado para chefiar o julgamento de quatro juristas alemães responsáveis pela legalização dos crimes cometidos pelos nazistas durante a guerra. À medida que surgem provas de esterilização e assassinatos de judeus, a pressão política vai-se tornando cada vez maior, pois a Guerra Fria está chegando e ninguém quer mais julgamentos como os da Alemanha. Além disso, os governos aliados querem fortemente esquecer o passado, mas a coisa certa a ser feita é a questão que esse tribunal tentará responder. Baseado em fatos reais, principalmente no caso Katzenberger, o último julgamento dos Processos de Guerra de Nuremberg, que ocorreram depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial para julgar os criminosos nazistas.
The Careless Years
Mrs. Vernon
A high school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove, and, unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.
Audácia de um Rebelde
Mrs. Lapham
Johhny Tremain é acusado injustamente de um delito que o impede de encontrar emprego. Sendo assim, ele acaba se alistando na guerra e se torna um patriota lutando para libertar as colônias da Inglaterra. Ele acaba descobrindo a si mesmo nesse processo.
Three Brave Men
Helen Goldsmith
A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.
Pesadelo
Sue Bressard
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
Vampiros de Almas
Wilma Lentz
A trama é sobre o médico Miles Bennell. Após voltar de um congresso para a sua cidade natal, ele se depara com um fenômeno estranho: diversas pessoas afirmam que seus parentes não são os mesmos, apesar de manterem a aparência física e as lembranças. Incrédulo no início, aos poucos Bennell vai descobrindo que tudo faz parte de uma invasão alienígena, que assume a forma das pessoas para conquistar seu objetivo.
O Assassino Anda Solto
Mary Gillespie
Um desequilibrado criminoso cuja mulher, acidentalmente foi morta por um detetive da polícia durante sua prisão, pretende vingar-se matando a esposa do policial.
Não Serás um Estranho
Bruni
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.
Paixões Sem Freios
Sally
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
Woman They Almost Lynched
Jenny
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
Never Wave at a WAC
Lt. Myles
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Matar ou Morrer
Mrs. Simpson (uncredited)
Para o xerife Will Kane (Gary Cooper), o dia do seu casamento será marcado não pela emoção, mas pela adrenalina e a perseguição com o perigoso bandido Frank Miller. Miller fugiu atrás de vingança, já que Kane o colocou na prisão. Mas, agora, nem a população local irá ajudá-lo.
The First Time
Nurse
A married couple welcomes their first child.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Sister Marthe
Cyrano devota um amor platônico à prima Roxane, mas ela confessa estar apaixonada por Christian, um dos jovens do regimento, e pede que Cyrano o proteja. Por causa disso, o poeta vai estar presente em todos os momentos da vida do casal, inclusive escrevendo cartas e recitando poemas à amada, sem que ela o saiba.
Special Agent
Mabel Rumpler
A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.
Cover Up
Margaret Baker
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
Night Wind
Jean Benson
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
Women in the Night
Claire Adams
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
The Gangster
Mrs. Karty
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
The Invisible Wall
Mildred Elsworth
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Lola Carson
Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
Os Assassinos
Lilly Harmon Lubinsky
Pistoleiros matam uma vítima que não resiste, e o investigador Reardon descobre seu envolvimento passado com a bela e mortal Kitty Collins. Dois assassinos profissionais invadem uma pequena cidade e matam um atendente de posto de gasolina, "o sueco", que os espera sem opor nenhuma resistência. O investigador de seguros Reardon investiga o caso contra as ordens de seu chefe, que considera o caso trivial. Juntando os fios da vida do sueco, Reardon descobre uma complexa história de traição e crime, tudo ligando com a deslumbrante e misteriosa Kitty Collins.
The Inner Circle
Rhoda Roberts
A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Florice Michaud
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
House of Horrors
Lady of the Streets
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Murder Is My Business
Dora Darnell
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
The Scarlet Horseman
Carla Marquette / Matosca
Government agents work to interfere with schemes to trick the Comanches into war with the Texans.
Girls of the Big House
Bernice Meyers
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
Phantom of the Plains
Celeste
Red Ryder tries to warn a duchess that her newfound beau has a history of murdering his wives.
A Praga da Múmia
Princess Ananka
Após 25 anos dos últimos acontecimentos, a múmia Kharis e a princesa Ananka permanecem submergidos no pântano do vilarejo de Mapleton. Um novo Sacerdote surge destinado a levar ambas múmias de volta ao Egito, mas a múmia da princesa Ananka tomou sua forma mortal e anda pelo vilarejo com amnésia, sem saber quem é e de onde veio... sem se lembrar que estava há 25 anos no pântano da cidade. Agora, Kharis tem que trazê-la até o monastério abandonado onde está o Sacerdote para lhe dar a poção das folhas de tana e transformar a princesa novamente em uma múmia e levar ambas finalmente de volta para o Egito.
The Old Texas Trail
Queenie Leone
In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless outlaws who are trying to take over the reins of a stage coach line.
Raiders of Ghost City
Countess Elsa von Merck, alias Trina Dressard
During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?
Women at War
Mary Sawyer
Three young women arrive at the Women's Army Corps facility in Fort Des Moines for varied reasons and with different goals. Mary Savage is a war widow who wants to become an officer, farm girl Stormy Hart wants to become involved in motor transport, and Lorna Travis seeks to win the approval of her father, a major general, who has very chauvinist views on the role of women in the military. Intensive training and guidance prepares the three to make a contribution to the success of the upcoming war games conducted by General Travis and validate the value of the WACS to the war effort.
Missão em Moscou
Maria - Beautician (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Revolta!
Hulda (Stensgard maid)
Depois de dois anos sob o domínio alemão, uma pequena vila de pescadores noruegueses se levanta e se revolta contra os nazistas que a ocupam.
Truck Busters
Eadie Watkins
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
Woman of the Year
Alma
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.