Faye Emerson
Nascimento : 1917-07-08, Elizabeth, Louisana, USA
Morte : 1983-03-09
História
Faye Margaret Emerson foi uma atriz americana de cinema e teatro e entrevistadora de televisão que ganhou fama como atriz de cinema na década de 1940, antes de fazer a transição para a televisão na década de 1950, apresentando seu próprio talk show. Nascida em Louisiana, Emerson passou a maior parte de sua infância em San Diego, Califórnia. Ela se interessou pelo teatro enquanto frequentava o San Diego State College e, posteriormente, seguiu a carreira de atriz, aparecendo no teatro de ações na Califórnia. Posteriormente, ela assinou um contrato com a Warner Bros. e começou a aparecer em seus filmes em 1941. Ela estrelou vários filmes noir, incluindo Lady Gangster e o filme de guerra de Howard Hawks, Força Aérea. Em 1944, ela desempenhou um de seus papéis mais memoráveis como ex-amante de Zachary Scott em The Mask of Dimitrios. De 1944 a 1950, ela foi casada com o coronel Elliott Roosevelt, filho de Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Em 1949, Emerson começou a apresentar o The Faye Emerson Show, um programa de entrevistas noturno. Ela se tornou uma prolífica entrevistadora de televisão, o que lhe rendeu o apelido de "A Primeira Dama da Televisão". Ao longo da década de 1950, ela também apareceu em inúmeras produções teatrais da Broadway. Emerson se aposentou formalmente do show business em 1963 e se aposentou na Europa. Ela morou lá até 1983, quando morreu de câncer de estômago em Deià, Espanha, aos 65 anos. Por suas contribuições para a indústria cinematográfica, Emerson recebeu uma estrela na Calçada da Fama de Hollywood em 1960. Sua estrela está localizada em 6529 Hollywood Blvd .
Self
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Georgia
O ex-policial Max Thursday se embebeda em um hotel barato quando sua ex-mulher aparece com más notícias e o manda numa corrida desesperada contra o tempo e a bebida. Uma relíquia noir independente do diretor Joseph Lerner, filmada inteiramente em Nova York. Um filme independente repleto de bebida e paranoia, filmado inteiramente em lugares reais nas ruas de Nova Iorque.
Toni Blackburn
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Ruby Marino
A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman.
Hilda Fenchurch
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Tillie Weiler
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.
Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Cora 'Cuddles' Colton
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
Ann Marlow
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
Irana Preveza
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Maxine Russell
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
Louise
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
Friend of Count Stephan in Nightclub (uncredited)
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.
Mrs. Cassidy
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o Capitão Cassidy e sua tripulação recebem a ordem de ir até a Baia de Tokio em uma missão secreta. O objetivo é reunir informações para o bombardeio planejado de Tóquio. Ao longo do caminho, a tripulação aprende uns com os outros como devem enfrentar o inimigo, e alguns deles perdem a vida. Depois de obter as informações que necessitam, eles enfrentam a angustiante tarefa de escapar da baía uma vez que sua presença foi descoberta.
Hajy
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America's advantage if conserved properly in winning the then current World War.
Mona Vance
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
Anastasia 'Stormy' Hart
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.
Susan McMartin
A tripulação de um bombardeiro da Força Aérea chega em Pearl Harbor no rescaldo do ataque japonês e é enviado para Manila para ajudar com a defesa das Filipinas. Em 6 de dezembro de 1941, nove bombardeiros B-17 partiram em um voo de San Francisco para o Havaí. Um dos bombardeiros, o Mary Ann, é comandado pelo "Irlandês" Quincannon. O bombardeiro, Tommy McMartin, tem uma irmã vivendo no Havaí e o copiloto, Bill Williams, está apaixonado por ela. Os homens são todos altamente profissionais, com exceção do artilheiro Joe Winocki, um homem amargo que tem toda a intenção de deixar a Força Aérea do exército. Eles chegam ao Campo Hickam na manhã de 7 de dezembro, na mesma hora que os japoneses estão atacando Pearl Harbor e outras instalações militares. Todos os homens se preparam para enfrentar o inimigo, inclusive Winocki cuja atitude muda rapidamente. O bombardeiro e sua tripulação participarão de muitas missões, mas nem todos sobreviverão.
Ice Cream Parlor Waitress
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Paula Fengler
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
Violet 'Murph' Murphy
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
Gladys Wayne
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Dorothy Burton
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
Peg
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Dr. Morse's Nurse (uncredited)
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
Miss LaMond
This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
Rose Chadwick
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Nurse Who Lost Draw (uncredited)
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Martha Adams
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Miss Hill
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
