Hope Summers
Nascimento : 1896-06-07, Mattoon, Illinois, USA
Morte : 1979-06-22
História
Hope Summers could portray a friendly neighbor or companion as she did for Frances Bavier's Aunt Bee character on many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) or a seemingly amiable Satanist in Rosemary's Baby (1968).
Born in Mattoon, Illinois, she developed an early interest in the theater. Graduating from Northwestern School of Speech in Evanston, Illinois, she subsequently taught speech and diction there. This, in turn, led to her the head position in the Speech Department at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, teaching students privately on the side as well. In the 1930s Hope began to focus on acting. She found work in community and stock theaters in Illinois and earned some notice for putting on one-woman shows such as "Backstage of Broadway." She made use of her vocal eloquence by building up her resumé on radio, performing in scores of dramatic shows, including "Authors' Playhouse," "First Night," "Ma Perkins", and "Step-Mother".
In 1950 Hope transferred her talents to the new medium of television and earned a regular role on the comedy series Hawkins Falls: A Television Novel (1950). By the age of 50 she was customarily called upon to play slightly older than she was, appearing in a number of minuscule matron roles in such films as Zero Hour! (1957), Hound-Dog Man (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Spencer's Mountain (1963), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), Charley Varrick (1973) and her last, Foul Play (1978). She never had any major stand-out roles in movies; TV would be a more prolific choice of medium. Her gently stern, old-fashioned looks allowed her to be a part of many small-town settings, including Dennis the Menace (1959) and Petticoat Junction (1963), and in various western locales such as Maverick (1957) and Wagon Train (1957).
She played a rustic regular for many years on The Rifleman (1958). Usually assigned to play teachers, nurses and other helpful, nurturing types, her characters were also known to be inveterate gossips. Hope worked until close to the end of her life, passing away from heart failure in 1979.
Alice Wylie (as Hope Summer)
A mad scientist seeks eternal youth by developing a drug derived from human pituitary glands, aided by the local townsfolk, who help abduct visitors to their town for his experiments.
Marcie
Two guys come to Nashville and try to make it on the country music scene. Their vision is to play at the Grand IL' Opry. Rejection after rejection pushes them to the verge of quitting and moving back to wherever they came from.
Ethel
Goldie Hawn no papel de uma bibliotecária que acidentalmente descobre um complô para assassinar o Papa Pio XIII, quando de sua visita à Cidade de São Francisco, por um esquisito grupo de vilões. Uma caçada selvagem se sucede na busca dos perigosos assassinos. Ao lado de Goldie Hawn, está o grande comediante americano Chevy Chase (Tomy), que interpreta um oficial de polícia. Entre investigações e buscas, o oficial da polícia local se apaixona pela moça.
Alice Wylie
Passing through a small town, two young hippie couples stumble upon a town where the old folks all act strange and even stranger things are happening at the local clinic. Filming was completed in 1973 but this original version of the film was barely released two years later under several different titles. It was shot as God Bless Grandpa and Grandma but posters were made for the titles Dr. Shagetz and God Bless Dr. Shagetz, with the "Bless" crossed over and replaced with "Damn."
Emily Boylan
A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and that the real killer is her own husband.
Biology Teacher
Drama about students at a girls' school, their boyfriends, and an unexpected pregnancy.
Mess Vesta
Charley Varrick rouba um banco numa cidade pequena com os seus amigos. Em vez de roubar uma pequena quantia de dinheiro eles descobrem que roubaram uma quantidade muito grande, e o dinheiro pertencente à máfia. Agora Charley agora deve pensar num plano não apenas para fugir a polícia mas também da máfia. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Laura
The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, not long after World War I. Eli (Cliff Robertson), a barn storming pilot who has the emotional make-up of an 11-year-old, and Rodger (Eric Shea), his 11-year-old son who possesses the wisdom of the ancients, set off to see the world, which means flying all the way to San Willow. To Eli, San Willow seems to be as fabled as Xanadu and quite as remote. In essence, "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies" is about the adventures of Rodger and Eli getting from nowhere to nowhere. Eli, a killer with the ladies at first, always leaves them unsatisfied. He seems to have a sex problem. Rodger spends a lot of his time getting his dad out of scrapes. He also drinks, smokes and goes to sleep at night crying for his deceased mom.
Nurse Throttle
In this classic hospital farce, Peter Sellers plays Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a greedy, crooked hospital administrator who has perfected the art of bill padding, unnecessary surgery and kickbacks. Mistrusted by patients, and resented by other staffers, his assistant Alice can no longer endure his scams and plots to have him sent to prison - but not for long enough. Sellers again steals the show with an absurd and hilarious character study.
Mrs. Beeman
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?
Celia
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
Mrs. Gilmore
Um jovem casal se muda para um apartamento em Nova York para começar uma família. As coisas ficam assustadoras quando Rosemary começa a suspeitar que seu futuro bebê não está seguro ao lado dos seus estranhos vizinhos.
Susanna Blush
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Mrs. Hasselrad
O aclamado diretor John Sturges (Sete Homens e um Destino, Sem Lei Sem Alma) vira todas as lendas do Oeste de cabeça para baixo nesta estupenda comédia sobre o ano em que Denver quase foi devastada por um dilúvio - de whisky - e teve que ter quarenta carregamentos importados trazidos por um território cruel - e sedento!
Os premiados Burt Lancaster e Martin Landau juntam-se à ótima Lee Remick neste lindamente filmado épico de aventura que tem "tanto gargalhadas quanto arrepios" (The Hollywood Reporter)! Também estrelando Jim Hutton, Brian Keith e Donald Pleasence, esse irreverente e literalmente seco olhar sobre a fronteira americana é "possivelmente o western mais engraçado já feito!"
Mrs. Elwood Thompson
Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.
Mother Ida
Clay Spencer é um homem trabalhador que ama sua esposa e família numerosa. Ele é respeitado por seus vizinhos e sempre pronto para ajudá-los. Embora não seja um frequentador de igreja, ele até ajuda um ministro local recém-chegado a recuperar seu rebanho depois que ele e Clay se metem em problemas. Se ele tem um sonho na vida, é construir para sua esposa Olivia uma linda casa em um pedaço de terra que ele herdou na montanha de Spender. Quando seu filho mais velho, Clayboy, se forma no topo de sua turma do ensino médio e tem a oportunidade de ir para a faculdade, Clay tem apenas uma opção para ele. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Mrs. Quimby
A psychopath (Grant Williams) calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst (Onslow Stevens).
Agatha
Uma escola particular para meninas se escandaliza quando uma estudante problemática e rancorosa, Mary Tilford, acusa as duas jovens que dirigem a escola de ter um relacionamento lésbico.
Ernestine Peasley (uncredited)
A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order to marry an old rich neighbor but the girl rebels by becoming the town's harlot.
Martha Adrims (uncredited)
Na pequena cidade de Solvang há um assassino à solta... e numa insólita família pode estar a chave do crime. Emily, enfermeira, cuida da ama de infância do seu marido Warren, uma idosa presa a uma cadeira de rodas. Porém, os cuidados desta enfermeira são mortais. À medida que se aproxima da verdade, a meia-irmã de Warren desvenda um arrepiante mistério da cidade... e o segredo mais soturno da sua família.
Mary
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
Mrs. Krebs - Righteous Townswoman
Numa cidade marcada pela forte presença da comunidade religiosa, professor é preso por ensinar a Teoria da Evolução de Darwin. O caso vai para o tribunal, onde acontece uma série de inflamados debates ideológicos, que mexem com a localidade e com seus habitantes. Baseado em caso real ocorrido em 1925, com os debates entre Clarence Darrow e William Jennings Bryan reconstruidos a partir das transcrições do julgamento real.
Jewell Crouch
A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney constantly in hot water for disobeying his mother. The lad should be watching the family farm, but he falls in with his older brother, Clint, and his reckless buddy Blackie Scantling who take him hunting in hillbilly country. The boy falls in love with a beautiful mountain girl, while Blackie has his own fling with another attractive hillbilly maiden, Nita Stringer, and then becomes mixed up with an older, married woman, Sussie Bell.
Motel Attendant
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.
Ethel - Policewoman on Bus (uncredited)
Uma prostituta, condenada à morte por assassinato, clama por sua inocência. Barbara Graham é uma mulher com padrões morais duvidosos, muitas vezes convidada para bares fuleiros. E já foi sentenciada por alguns pequenos crimes. Ela sabe que dois homens mataram uma velha mulher. Quando os dois são pegos, começam a pensar que Barbara ajudou a polícia a prendê-los. Como vingança, dizem à polícia que Barbara é a assassina.
Older Woman
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
