Joan Shawlee
Nascimento : 1926-03-05, Forest Hills, New York, USA
Morte : 1987-03-22
História
Reliable character actress who is perhaps known for her performance as Sweet Sue in Billy Wilder's comedy classic, "Some Like It Hot" (1959).
Wanda
A man heads for Mexico with a mobster's girlfriend.
Receptionist
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.
Isaac's Mother
A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.
Margo
Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.
Rose
Gang of robbers use dune buggies for their big heist.
Woman in Ballroom
O detetive particular Philip Marlowe tenta encontrar Velma, dançarina de um clube noturno e namorada de Moose Malloy, um pequeno criminoso que acaba de sair da prisão. Mas rapidamente percebe que nada neste caso é o que aparente ser à primeira vista. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Saleslady
In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.
Polly Grant
A photographer is chased by professional killers who have mistaken him for the person they're really after.
Alice Rickles
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.
Big Nellie
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot.
Hooker
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.
Robbie's Mother
Greg Nolan (Elvis Presley) é um fotografo que trabalha para dois clientes sem que o outro saiba: Mike (Don Porter), um dono de uma revista masculina e Louis Penlow (Rudy Valee), dono de uma agência de publicidade. Nas horas vagas ele namora Bernice (Michele Carey).
Fat Candy
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.
Blonde in Bar
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
Edna, Frank's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Chicago, 1920. Al Capone (Jason Robards) enfim consegue se estabelecer como um gângster de renome ao organizar uma emboscada contra peças chave da gangue de "Bugs" Moran (Ralph Meeker), um gângster rival. Em pleno dia dos namorados, integrantes da gangue de Capone se vestiram de policiais e encurralaram os rivais, matando-os sem pensar duas vezes. Este evento foi crucial para a ascensão de Capone dentro do crime organizado.
Momma Monahan
Anos antes de "Sem Destino", Peter Fonda estrela como Heavenly Blues, o líder de uma ganga de motociclistas selvagens. Quando seu melhor amigo (Bruxe Dern) é ferido em meio a uma tentativa de roubar uma motocicleta da polícia, tentam raptá-lo em um hospital, onde encontra-se muito debilitado. Começa assim, uma jornada desesperada de fuga. Motociclistas do Hell's Angels, foram contratados para trabalhar no filme. Mais uma pérola na filmografia do diretor produtor e mestre do "low badget", Corman.
Miss Gloria Maxine
An American gambler masquerades as a Catholic priest during the fall of Manilla early in World War II in the Pacific to obtain clearance to fly out on an official military transport. Five American showgirls wrangle a pass with the aid of a helpful U.S. Army colonel to leave on the same plane. Ironically, the transport crashes at sea. The gambler and the girls wind up on a Japanese held island. Initially, they stay out of sight from the enemy, but inevitably things change.
Amazon Annie
Nester Patou, a naive police officer, is transferred to the red light district in Paris and organizes a raid on a dodgy hotel running as a brothel. In doing so he inadvertently disrupts the corrupt system of the police and the pimps union, and even nets his station superior. Fired from his job, Nester goes to the local bar for a drink and befriends a pretty young lady named Irma la Douce. Upon realizing she is a prostitute, Nester invents a crazy scheme to keep her from seeing other men.
Marge Orr
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
Sylvia
Um funcionário ambicioso (Jack Lemmon) descobre um atalho para subir na companhia em que trabalha: Ceder seu apartamento para os encontros amorosos de seus chefes. A tática inicialmente dá certo, mas passa a ser ameaçada quando ele se apaixona pela amante de um de seus chefes.
Sweet Sue
Em 1929, Joe e Jerry, dois músicos desempregados, testemunham sem querer o cruel Massacre do Dia de São Valentim. Desesperados para não serem pegos pelos gangsters, eles se disfarçam de mulheres e entram para um grupo feminino musical, que está indo para Miami fazer shows. Joe se apaixona por Sugar, a garota problema do grupo, enquanto um milionário se apaixona pelo disfarce de Jerry, tudo isso em meio a uma convenção de criminosos, que também está acontecendo em Miami.
Rosie McCann
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Velma, alias "Cindy Lou Calhoun"
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
Joan (uncredited)
Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland) é uma sonhadora artista que deseja se tornar uma grande estrela do cinema americano. Seu sonho se torna realidade quando ela conhece o astro de Hollywood Norman Maine, e os dois se apaixonam. Depois de um tempo, eles se casam, e a carreira de Esther começa realmente a decolar, e ela passa a ser chamada pelo nome artístico de Vicky Lester. Só que enquanto sua fama aumenta, seu marido está cada vez mais decadente e afundado no álcool, o que começa a abalar a carreira da esposa. Segunda versão da clássica história e primeiro filme colorido do diretor George Cukor.
Sergeant Kipp
Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!
Mrs. Casey
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The girl finally rehabilitates the horse then enters it in a big race.
Hedy
Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
Blonde
Frank Johnson foge da polícia depois de se tornar uma testemunha ocular de um crime. Ele é perseguido pela cenográfica San Francisco por sua esposa, um repórter, a polícia, e ... o verdadeiro assassino. Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), única testemunha de um assassinato de gangues, vai se esconder e é perseguido pelo inspetor de polícia Ferris (Robert Keith), na suposição de que Frank está tentando escapar de uma possível retaliação. A esposa de Frank, Eleanor (Ann Sheridan), suspeita que ele está realmente fugindo de seu casamento fracassado. Auxiliada pelo jornalista Danny Leggett (Dennis O'Keefe), Eleanor vai para as ruas tentar localizar seu marido. O assassino também está procurando por ele e faz marcação cerrada sobre Eleanor. e 12.
Lotee
Tigri and her stone age friends, all of which are women, hate all men. However, she and her Amazon tribe see men as a "necessary evil" and capture them for potential husbands. Engor, who is smarter than the rest of the men, is able to escape them. He discovers fire and battle enormous beasts.
Soubrette
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
Ben's Girl (as Joan Fulton)
Marshal Johnnie Taggart (Jon Hall) , posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden. The Judge doesn't know that Louise is in love with Curtwright, and she tips him off as to Johnnie's real identity. Curtwright frames Johnnie for a murder and arranges for the crooked sheriff to promote a lynching and Andy and Kitty help Johnnie escape jail. Johnnie rounds up vigilantes and heads for a showdown at the Bull Whip saloon
Sylvia Hunter
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Blonde
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
Virgie
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
Ann (as Joan Fulton)
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but complications arise when the squeaky-voiced, addle-brained sponsor of the program decides she wants to be the vocalist on the program.
Janie
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
Ruth (as Joan Fulton)
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
Rocco's Blonde (as Joan Fulton)
Maria Montez plays a Spanish dancer named Rita, who is determined to bring Nazi collaborator Colonel Jose Artiego (Preston Foster) to justice. Artiego is at presently working incognito, as military governor of the North African city of Tangier. Maria finds an unexpected ally in the form of Artiego's discarded mistress Dolores (Louise Allbritton).
Mamie 'Baby' Willis (as Joan Fulton)
Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.
Stella McNally
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.