Vanessa Brown

Vanessa Brown

Nascimento : 1928-03-24, Vienna, Austria

Morte : 1999-05-21

História

Known as the bright radio "Quiz Kid," Vanessa Brown became a popular leading lady in films and stage productions of the 1940s and 1950s and later a respected writer. During her heyday as an actress, Brown appeared in such varied productions as "The Seven Year Itch" opposite Tom Ewell on Broadway (a role later assumed by Marilyn Monroe in the film version) and the motion picture "Tarzan and the Slave Girl." Brown toured with Katharine Hepburn in a Theatre Guild production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and became something of a protege of the legendary actress. Among Brown's major films of the late 1940s and the early 1950s were "I've Always Loved You," "The Late George Apley," "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," "The Foxes of Harrow," "The Heiress," "The Fighter" and "The Bad and the Beautiful."

Perfil

Vanessa Brown

Filmes

The Witch Who Came from the Sea
Cathy
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Bless the Beasts & Children
Mrs. Goodenow
A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.
Rosie!
Edith Shaw
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
Assim Estava Escrito
Kay Amiel
Narrado em flashback, o filme traça a ascensão e a queda de um produtor de Hollywood duro e ambicioso, Jonathan Shields, visto pelos olhos de vários conhecidos, incluindo o escritor James Lee Bartlow, a estrela Georgia Lorrison e o diretor Fred Amiel. Ele é um homem difícil e ambicioso que impiedosamente usa todos - incluindo o escritor, estrela e diretor - na escalada para se tornar um dos maiores de Hollywood. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
The Fighter
Kathy
A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.
The Basketball Fix
Pat Judd
A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving.' A sportswriter tries to get him back on the right track.
Three Husbands
Mary Whittaker
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Jane
The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.
Tarde Demais
Maria
Uma jovem ingênua se apaixona por um bonito jovem, mas seu pai emocionalmente abusivo suspeita que seja um caçador de fortunas. Em meados do século XIX, a rica família Sloper - o cirurgião viúvo Dr. Austin Sloper, sua filha adulta Catherine Sloper (única filha sobrevivente de Dr. Sloper) e Lavinia Penniman, recentemente viúva irmã de Dr. Sloper - moram em uma casa suntuosa em 16 Washington. Square, Nova York. Apesar de todas as lições que Dr. Sloper pagou para encentivar as graças sociais para ela, Catherine é uma mulher simples, desajeitada e extremamente tímida, que passa todo o seu tempo livre sozinha fazendo bordados quando não está idolatrando seu pai. A falta de charme e beleza social de Catherine é óbvia para o Dr. Sloper, que espera que sua irmã Lavinia atue como sua guardiã e ajude socialmente .O primeiro homem a mostrar interesse por Catherine é o belo Morris Townsend, que ela conheceu em uma festa de família.
The Secret Of St. Ives
Floria Gilchrist
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
Big Jack
Patricia Mahoney
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
The Foxes of Harrow
Aurore D'Arceneaux
An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
Mother Wore Tights
Bessie
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
O Fantasma Apaixonado
Anna Muir as an Adult
Um ano após a morte do marido, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) decide não mais viver com a sogra e a cunhada e aluga o "Chalé Gaivota", uma casa a beira-mar, e para lá se muda com sua filha e sua empregada. Porém, logo o fantasma de Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), o falecido proprietário da casa que morrera em um suposto suicídio, surge para a amendrontá-la, mas isto não surte efeito e entre os dois nasce gradativamente uma amizade. Assim, quando ela se vê em uma grave situação financeira, ele decide lhe narrar sua vida para ser transformada em livro e tirá-la deste aperto. Posteriormente, Lucy acaba conhecendo um escritor de histórias para crianças e pensa em se casar com ele. Apesar de não concordar com esta decisão, Daniel decide não mais aparecer e fazer com que Lucy acredite que todas as conversas que tiveram juntos foi produto da imaginação dela.
Tenho Direito ao Amor
Agnes Willing
George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.
I've Always Loved You
Georgette 'Porgy' Sampter at 17
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
Margie
Wanda (uncredited)
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
The Girl of the Limberlost
Helen Brownlee
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.
Youth Runs Wild
Sarah Taylor
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.