Almira Sessions

Almira Sessions

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

Morte : 1974-08-03

Perfil

Almira Sessions

Filmes

Calafrio
Carrie Smith
Willard Stiles é um rapaz com problemas sociais. Ele se diverte com seus amigos, dois ratos, Ben e Socrates, e outros que se juntam. Quando um deles é morto por um colega de trabalho, ele se vinga, treinando os ratos contra quem o atormenta.
A Noite em Que o Sol Brilhou
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.
Os Xerifes Quarentões
Mrs. Fletcher
O comediante clássico Western, Capitão Oren Hayes, do Texas Rangers, faz uma pausa para visitar sua filha em uma cidade vizinha. Quando ele chega, encontra o marido de Hannah, sua filha, que está concorrendo a prefeito contra um chefe corrupto da cidade, Nard Lundy. Lundy não tem intenção de permitir a eleição livre do honesto Jeff Rose, por isso seus espancadores os espancam. Hayes então pede a ajuda de alguns de seus antigos amigos dos Rangers. Ao chegar na cidade, eles percebem rapidamente que a idade os alcançou e devem confiar em sua inteligência para ser espertos e derrotar Lundy.
O Homem Que Odiava as Mulheres
Emma Hodak
Por que 13 mulheres voluntariamente abrem suas portas para o Estrangulador de Boston? Boston está sendo atacada por um serial-killer que já matou 13 mulheres. Até que a polícia captura Albert DeSalvo (Tony Curtis), um encanador que por não lembrar dos acontecimentos, dificulta as investigações da polícia. Baseado em fatos reais.
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.
Don Juan Era Aprendiz
Woman (uncredited)
A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tanant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.
O Anjo de Pedra
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?
Juventude Transviada
Planetarium Teacher (uncredited)
Em uma das performances que mais influenciaram a história do cinema, James Dean interpreta um jovem recém-chegado a uma cidade e cuja solidão, frustação e fúria e que espelharia os adolescentes do pós-guerra — e ainda reverberaria pelos 50 anos seguintes...
Dançando nas Nuvens
Desk Clerk at Longwood House (uncredited)
Ted, Doug, and Angie são três ex-G.I.s (soldados) que resolveram marcar um encontro 10 anos depois num bar de Nova Yorke em 11 de outubro de 1955. Todos apareceram no dia marcado, mas rapidamente percebem que a amizade não é a mesma de antes. Um diretor de programa quer levar os três amigos para um Live TV show. As circunstâncias ficam ainda mais complicadas porque um grupo de gângster está atrás te Ted. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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.
Entardecer da Vida
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.
A Gardênia Azul
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.
Abbott & Costello e o Pé de Feijão
Mrs. Mergatroyd (uncredited)
A versão de Abbott & Costello do famoso conto de fadas, sobre um menino que troca a vaca da família por feijões mágicos.
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.
Órfãos da Tempestade
Wife on Airplane
Pete Garvey improvisa uma agência de adoção de órfãos de guerra, em Paris, quando um ultimato de sua antiga noiva chama-o de volta para Boston, com dois órfãos adotados para derreter o coração dela.
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.
Vontade Indômita
Dominique's Housekeeper at Quarry (uncredited)
Howard Roark é um jovem arquiteto idealista e individualista, que deseja realizar um trabalho inovador e sem interferências, mas encontra resistência por parte do articulista do jornal "The Banner" Elsworth Toohey, que prefere apoiar medíocres e manipuláveis como Peter Keating. Roark fica sem clientes e para não contrariar seus princípios, fecha seu escritório e vai trabalhar como operário em uma pedreira, onde conhece a rica Dominique. (Gerigato)
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.
Um Anjo Caiu do Céu
First Lady in Michel's
Um bispo tentando construir uma nova catedral pede a Deus uma orientação. Um anjo (Cary Grant) chega, mas a sua ajuda não é sobre a captação de recursos. Henry Brougham é um bispo dedicado à nova construção de uma catedral que será paga pela viúva Agnes Hamilton. Dudley, um anjo, é enviado pelo céu para ajudá-lo. Mas Dudley acaba sendo tão prestativo e bondoso para todos que Henry acaba se sentindo ameaçado.
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.
Monsieur Verdoux
Lena Couvais
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) é um assassino em série golpista. Ele casa com senhoras ricas e logo depois as mata para ficar com toda a herança. Esse dinheiro ele usa para sustentar sua verdadeira família, que se encontra em dificuldades financeiras desde que Verdoux se deu mal nos negócios.
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.
Do Céu Caiu Uma Estrela
Potter's Secretary (uncredited)
Com tanto problemas a atormentá-lo, George Bailey está decidido em acabar com tudo de vez, embora seja véspera Natal. Enquanto os Anjos conversam sobre George, a sua vida passa em retrospectiva. Mas quando George está prestes a saltar de uma ponte, é salvo por Clarence, o seu Anjo da Guarda, que lhe mostra como seria a cidade se ele não tivesse feito tantas coisas boas. Será que Clarence consegue convencer George a regressar à sua família e esquecer o suicídio?
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.
Segredos de Alcova
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.
Amor à Terra
Mrs. Burke
Sam Tucker, um colhedor de algodão, em busca de um futuro melhor para sua família, decide cultivar sua própria plantação de algodão. No primeiro ano, os Tuckers enfrentam uma doença, uma inundação e um vizinho ciumento. Será que vão conseguir se transformar em agricultores? (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
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.
Papai Por Acaso
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.
Por Conta do Cupido
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.
Escola de Sereias
Ms. Phillips (uncredited)
O compositor de canções românticas Steve (Red Skelton) ingressa numa faculdade feminina para tentar reconquistar sua esposa Caroline (Esther Williams), uma treinadora de natação. A partir daí começam muitas confusões, risadas garantidas e memoráveis balés aquáticos. Skelton em ótima forma e Esther Williams abalando os corações com seu corpo escultural, sem contar com inúmeras beldades como alunas da bela Williams. Uma comédia deliciosa.
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.
Sedução Tropical
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.
Senhorita Ventania
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.
Consciências Mortas
Miss Swanson (uncredited)
Dois vagabundos estão passando por uma cidade no oeste, quando chega a notícia de que um fazendeiro local foi assassinado e seu gado roubado. As pessoas da cidade se juntam aos vagabundos, formam uma patrulha para capturar os criminosos. Eles encontram três homens na posse do gado, e estão determinados a ver a justiça ser feita no local. Quando uma patrulha alcança três homens suspeitos de matar um fazendeiro local, alguns deles ficam fortemente divididos sobre se devem ou não linchar os homens.
Obliging Young Lady
Maid at Lake Mohawk Lodge
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Contrastes Humanos
Ursula Kornheiser
Acostumado a dirigir filmes simples e sem grandes implicações, o cineasta John L. Sullivan decide fazer um filme sobre os problemas sociais, mas é desencorajado por seus produtores, que o acham incapaz para tal. Para provar o contrário, ele se traveste de mendigo e vai para as ruas, para viver a experiência de perto e ter contato com a realidade.
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.
Quero Casar-me Contigo
Nurse
Quando a banda de Phil Corey chega à estância de esqui Sun Valley em Idaho seu pianista Ted Scott se apaixona pela refugiada norueguesa Karen Benson. Quando a solista Vivian Dawn sai, Karen assume o show no gelo.
Flores do Pó
Mrs. Brown
Este drama biográfico do diretor Mervyn LeRoy mereceu uma indicação ao Oscar de melhor filme por retratar com grande sensibilidade a vida da engajada dona de casa Edna Gladney (Greer Garson). Após passar por amargas experiências de vida, ela se casa com o texano Sam Gladney (Walter Pidgeon). O casal tem um filho, que morre precocemente. Ao mesmo tempo, Edna descobre que não poderá ter outra criança e assim decide se dedicar a algo para preencher sua vida. Ao observar que o tratamento dado às crianças órfãs e abandonadas não é exatamente o que poderia chamar de terno, ela abre uma casa de adoção e encaminha as crianças a lares onde possam ter uma vida digna.
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?