Sheila Bromley

Sheila Bromley

Nascimento : 1911-10-31, San Francisco, California, USA

Morte : 2003-07-23

História

From Wikipedia Sheila Bromley,  (October 31, 1911 – July 23, 2003) was an American television and film actress. She is best known for her roles in B-movies, mostly Westerns of the era. Born in San Francisco, California, she began her career in the 1930s under contract with Monogram Pictures. She was first billed as Sheila LeGay starring in 1930 westerns alongside Tom Tyler. She frequently co-starred with Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Cody, and Dick Foran. She starred alongside Bill Cody in Land of Wanted Men (1932), John Wayne in Westward Ho (1935), Lawless Range (1935) and Idol of the Crowds (1937). In 1944 Bromley appeared in the touring production of Good Night Ladies. On television she guest-starred in episodes of Rawhide, I Love Lucy, and Perry Mason. During World War II she worked often for the USO, continuing that service until the war ended in 1945. There she met her husband Jairus Bellamy. She is credited with seventy-five films in her career, of which seventeen were westerns, for which she is best known. Bromley retired from films and lived in the Greater Los Angeles Area until her death in 2003, aged 91.

Perfil

Sheila Bromley

Filmes

Barn of the Naked Dead
Mrs. Baynes
Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have car trouble and are stuck all night out in the desert. The next morning cheerful Andre offers them help in fixing their car. However, Andre is really a maniac with a lot of family problems; his mother ran out on him when he was a child so now he keeps kidnapped women chained up in his barn and trains them to perform circus tricks. Andre's father is still around of course, but because the old homestead is next to a nuclear test site he has been transformed into a raving homicidal mutant that Andre keeps locked up in a shed.
Hotel de Luxo
Mrs. Grandin
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
The Girls on the Beach
Mrs. Winters
The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, bragging that they know the Beatles, the girls plan a concert with the Fab Four as the main attraction.
Juventude Desenfreada
Mrs. Harkness
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
Julgamento em Nuremberg
Mrs. Ives (uncredited)
Após a 2ª Guerra Mundial, um juiz americano é convocado para chefiar o julgamento de quatro juristas alemães responsáveis pela legalização dos crimes cometidos pelos nazistas durante a guerra. À medida que surgem provas de esterilização e assassinatos de judeus, a pressão política vai-se tornando cada vez maior, pois a Guerra Fria está chegando e ninguém quer mais julgamentos como os da Alemanha. Além disso, os governos aliados querem fortemente esquecer o passado, mas a coisa certa a ser feita é a questão que esse tribunal tentará responder. Baseado em fatos reais, principalmente no caso Katzenberger, o último julgamento dos Processos de Guerra de Nuremberg, que ocorreram depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial para julgar os criminosos nazistas.
Young Jesse James
Mrs. Samuels
When Missouri farm boy Jesse James witnesses the lynching of his father by the Yankees, he forsakes his family's homestead to find his brother Frank, a soldier in Quantrill's Raiders, a renegade band of Confederates. Bent on revenge, Jesse begs to join the raiders.
O Gigante de Gelo
Lucy Husack
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
The Lawless Eighties
Mrs. Sutter
After deceitful Indian agent Grat Bandas has his men shoot Brother Van, gunfighter Linc Prescott saves the peaceful circuit rider and agrees to help him put a stop to Bandas's plans to start an Indian war and grab their land for himself. Meanwhile, Prescott takes a shine to the daughter of a local rancher.
Spoilers of the Forest
Linda Mitchell
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest.
Domingo Sangrento
Marie
Delegado, no dia de seu casamento, é salvo de uma emboscada por pistoleiro, que indiferente a modernidade, passa a tumultuar a cidade.
World in My Corner
Mrs. Mallinson
A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, but fears he doesn't have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, Shea decides to work with crooked fight-promoter Harry Cram, even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As the big fight approaches, however, Shea begins to have second thoughts.
Chamas Que Não Se Apagam
Woman from Pasadena
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Nasce uma Estrela
Shrine Auditorium Reporter (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.
Time to Kill
Lois Morny
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
A Fugitive from Justice
Ruby Patterson
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Três Horas Trágicas
Doris Delafield
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Julie Mancini
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
Torture Ship
Poison Mary Slavish
A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship.
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Jackie McGuire
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Waterfront
Marie Cordell
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
Death Goes North
Elsie Barlow
Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.
Women in the Wind
Frieda Boreman
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Bonnie Lucas
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Girls on Probation
Hilda Engstrom
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Rebellious Daughters
Flo Russell
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
Reformatory
Mrs. Regan
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
Mystery House
Terice Von Elm
When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to get to the bottom of the case.
Accidents Will Happen
Nona Gregg
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
Making the Headlines
Grace Sandford
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.
King of the Newsboys
Connie Madison
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Breakdowns of 1938
Gladys Wagner (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Midnight Intruder
Peggy Reitter
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
Missing Witnesses
Gladys Wagner
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Susan Oakhurst
When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggings. But when they strike it rich the money is gambled away instead.
Às Portas de Shanghai
Lola Galt
American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
Ídolo da Torcida
Helen Dale
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
Mrs. John Jones
Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of indigestion, didn't speak to him when he came to work on Friday and is convinced he is going to get fired.
Born to Fight
Ada
An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out. Thinking he's killed him and believing that the police are after him, the horrified boxer runs off and takes to the road, promising never to box again. However, one day he comes upon a small but scrappy young kid who has the potential to be a champion. The former boxer takes the kid under his wing and trains him, but the kid's ensuing success starts to go to his head. Pretty soon he finds himself mixed up with gamblers, too.
Lady Be Careful
Hazel
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
Kelly of the Secret Service
Sally Flint
A secret apparatus that controls bombs by remote control is stolen from a laboratory. A federal agent is assigned to recover it, and his investigation leads him to a creepy mansion that is honeycombed with secret passage ways.
Desert Phantom
Jean Halloran
Billy Donovan arrives looking for his sister's killer. When he hires on at the Halloran ranch where the mysterious Phantom has killed all the hands, it's not long before the Phantom shoots him.
The Pace That Kills
Fanny
Drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.
Lawless Range
Ann Mason
John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help each other escape and learn that a local banker is trying to scare everyone away to grab up some secret gold mines.
Moonlight on the Prairie
Barbara Roberts
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Da Derrota à Vitória
Mary Gordon
John Wyatt testemunho a morte dos pais e o sequestro do irmão quando criança. Determinado a se vingar, ele forma um grupo de justiceiros que sai a cavalo entoando hinos pelo caminho. Um dia ele reencontra o irmão, que hoje trabalha para os fora-da-lei, e ambos se apaixonam pela mesma mulher.
Together We Live
Mary
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement in America.
Danger Ahead
Lorraine Matthews
Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad's henchmen. Newspaper reporter Jerry Mason witnesses the robbery and steals the cash from Conrad.
Carnival
Puppet Assistant
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Behind the Evidence
Ruth Allen
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
Prescott Kid
Dolores Ortega
Cowboy Tim Hamlin arrives in a town plagued by a gang of cattle rustlers.
The Merry Widow
Sonia's Maid (uncredited)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
The Woman Condemned
Actress
Jerry Beall, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara Hammond, a girl accused of murdering a female radio-star, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence, abetted by the lack of truth in many of Barbara's statements. But Barbara winds up in a romantic clinch instead of the electric chair, after a series of sequences that reveal the fallacy of jumping to conclusions.
King for a Night
Telephone Operator
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Only Yesterday
May (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Meet the Baron
Equestrienne Wearing Black Vest (uncredited)
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
The Cowboy Counsellor
Ruth Avery
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
Tiger Shark
'Red' (uncredited)
Realizado pelo cineasta John Farrow, a partir de um roteiro escrito por Jonathan Latimer, “O Tigre dos Mares” é um bom filme produzido pela Paramount Pictures em 1951. Sua trama, baseada numa estória do próprio Latimer, é marcada por uma boa dose de ação, própria dos filmes de guerra.
Os Gênios da Pelota
Wagstaff's Receptionist (uncredited)
O professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) acaba de ser nomeado o Diretor da Faculdade Huxley. Seu filho Frank (Zeppo Marx), que está mais interessado em namorar do que estudar, sugere que ele incentive o time de futebol americano da escola. Tentando ajudar, o filho diz ao pai que os melhores jogadores do país costumam se encontrar num bar próximo à faculdade. Quando o professor chega lá, contrata dois esquisitões (Chico e Harpo Marx) achando que são ótimos esportistas. Essa dupla fará de tudo - menos jogar futebol.
Texas Pioneers
Nancy Thomas
In order to find out who is smuggling guns to the Indians, an army officer pretends to have been demoted and hold a grudge against the army, hoping that the smugglers will try to contact him and take him into their gang.
Uma Hora Contigo
Colette's Downstairs Maid (uncredited)
Os formosos Andre e Colette Bertier são um casal extremamente feliz. Quando Colette apresenta seu marido para a sua melhor amiga Mitzi, que flerta com todos os homens que vê pela frente, Andre tenta ao máximo resistir às investidas da amiga. Mas ela é bastante insistente, além de ser muito bonita, que faz com que ele invariavelmente traia sua mulher. O marido de Mitzi quer se divorciar, e a está mantendo sob vigilância constante. Andre acaba sendo descoberto, e tem de se confessar para Colette. Mal sabe ele, que sua belíssima mulher também tem mantido alguns segredos para si...
Lady with a Past
Party Guest (Uncredited)
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Texas Gun Fighter
Jane Adams
Bill Dane and Banty quit Kell's outlaw gang. When Dane prevents Kell and his men from getting a bullion shipment, he is made Sheriff. Learning Dane is Sheriff, Kell and gang return, force Dane to give them the bullion, and make Dane a prisoner. Escaping, Dane trails the gang and engages them in a gunfight while his horse Tarzan goes for help.
Working Girls
Carrie
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Girls About Town
Party Girl (uncredited)
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
Land of Wanted Men
Cynthia
A cowboy takes a job as sheriff in a small town and finds that one of his first jobs is trying to stop trouble between newly arrived sheepmen and local cattle ranchers, who don't want the sheep grazing on "their" range.
Daddy Long Legs
Gloria
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
Ten Nights in a Bar-room
June Manners
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
Chiselers of Hollywood
Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
The Canyon of Missing Men
Dave Brandon (Tom Tyler) tries to break away from his life of crime, but his old gang won't let him.
Call of the Desert
Tod Walker takes Rex Carson's map to a gold mine and leaves him in the desert. Carson recuperates at Jean Walker's ranch and she takes a liking to him. But when her uncle Tod arrives, he claims Carson tried to jump his claim. She sides with her uncle and Carson, banished from the Walker ranch, sets out to get his claim back.