Jean Muir

Jean Muir

Nascimento : 1911-02-13, Northampton, England, UK

Morte : 1996-07-23

História

Jean Muir (born Jean Muir Fullarton) was an American stage and film actress and educator. She was the first performer to be blacklisted after her name appeared in the infamous anti-Communist 1950 pamphlet 'Red Channels'.

Perfil

Jean Muir

Filmes

Northwest Stampede
Writer
In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father bequeathed him a ranch in Calgary, Canada. The rider really tries to settle down to ranching, but finds himself pining for the rodeo. His forewoman, also a former rodeo performer, thinks her employer is shirking his duties and needs to forget about broncos, and bull-riding and settle down. Meanwhile, the fellow also longs to catch the white stallion running wild. The dog helps out.
De Amor Também Se Morre
Kate Sanger
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
Noiva da Fatalidade
Joan Bradley
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
And One Was Beautiful
Helen Lattimer
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
Jane Steps Out
Beatrice Wilton
Wallflower Jane Wilton has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful and popular sister Beatrice. Making things worse, Beatrice is spiteful and cruel, directing all manner of nastiness towards the submissive and uncomplaining Jane. But when Beatrice sets her cap for Jane's erstwhile boy friend Basil Gilbert, she goes a shade too far. For once, the worm turns, and Jane fights tooth and nail to win her man back. A retelling of the Cinderella story.
White Bondage
Betsy Ann Craig
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
Dance Charlie Dance
Mary Mathews
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
Draegerman Courage
Ellen Haslett
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Helen Colby
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Her Husband's Secretary
Carol Blane Kingdon
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Once a Doctor
Paula Nordland
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
Fugitive in the Sky
Rita Moore
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
White Fang
Sylvia Burgess
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Faithful
Marilyn Koster
A musical drama about two pupils from a provincial music conservatory who elope, marry, and move to London to try their luck. The husband becomes a singer in a nightclub, and is soon targeted by a predatory socialite. They start an affair, the wife finds out about it and decides to leave her husband, until matters are smoothed over by a third-party who wishes the couple well.
A Dream Comes True
Herself (uncredited)
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Stars Over Broadway
Nora Wyman
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Sonho de uma Noite de Verão
Helena
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Orchids to You
Camellia Rand
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
Oil for the Lamps of China
Alice
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
Herself (uncredited)
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
The White Cockatoo
Sue Talley
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
Gentlemen Are Born
Trudy Talbot
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Desirable
Lois
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Dr. Monica
Mary Hathaway
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
A Modern Hero
Joanna Ryan Croy
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
Hollywood Newsreel
Herself
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
As the Earth Turns
Jen
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
O Nome é Tudo
Caroline Grant
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
Son of a Sailor
Helen
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
A Humanidade Marcha
Selma Peterson / Granddaughter Selma
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Tu És Mulher
Miss Joyce, Jim's Secretary (Uncredited)
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Os Desaparecidos
Louise Kane (uncredited)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...