Beatrice Roberts
Рождение : 1905-03-07, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Смерть : 1970-07-24
История
From Wikipedia
Alice Beatrice Roberts (March 7, 1905 – July 24, 1970) was an American film actress. She was briefly married to the cartoonist and showman Robert L. Ripley and a mistress of Louis B. Mayer.
She married Robert Ripley at age 14 on October 31, 1919, about the time he invented his Believe It or Not cartoon strip. The marriage was short lived—they separated three months later and were divorced in 1926. Ripley never spoke about the marriage, calling himself a "confirmed bachelor".
After her marriage, Roberts entered several beauty pageants including the 1924 and 1925 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey (as Miss Manhattan, 1924, and Miss Greater New York, 1925). She won the "Most Beautiful Girl in Evening Gown" award each time.
She went to Hollywood in 1933 and between then and 1946, she appeared in nearly 60 films, including Tall Timber (1937) and Love Takes Flight (also 1937), in which she starred opposite Bruce Cabot. Many of her roles were small and uncredited. Her most notable role was that of Queen Azura in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, a 1938 serial.
She was a mistress to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer in 1935 and 1936, while under contract to his company. In the 1940s, Roberts married John Wesley Smith.
Her last movie contract was with Universal, and her final appearances were in Criss-Cross and Family Honeymoon. Her acting career never becoming the success she had dreamed of, she left Hollywood in 1949. She died in Plymouth, Massachusetts from pneumonia, aged 65.
Nurse (uncredited)
Через год после развода Стив Томпсон возвращается в Лос-Анджелес, надеясь начать с Анной все сначала. Кажется, и Анна не прочь вернуться к бывшему мужу, но ее нынешний дружок, гангстер Слим Данди, не собирается ее отпускать. Чтобы получить Анну, Стив готов на все, даже на то, чтобы самому стать гангстером — грабить и убивать.
Maid (Uncredited)
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
Dorothy
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Mother
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictable complications follow in rather tame fashion.
Nurse (Uncredited)
Желая начать новую жизнь после возвращения с войны, городской пижон Боб покупает фермерское угодье с большими планами на развитие-взращивание кур и последующей продажей яиц. Правда, своими планами он не поделился со своей новоиспеченной супругой, городской штучкой Бэтти. У молодых разные взгляды на ферму, которая на самом деле требует больших усилий, чтобы превратиться в место, пригодное для жилья и ведения бизнеса. Боб и Бэтти знакомятся со своими соседями, среди которых Бэтти ждет настоящее испытание для терпения: гламурная соседка Харриет Путнэм определенно имеет виды на Боба.
Nurse (uncredited)
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
Marie (uncredited)
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
Nurse (uncredited)
От пуль наемных убийц погибает скромный служащий бензоколонки. Страховой агент Реардон расследует это на первый взгляд случайное преступление. Раскручивая нить жизни погибшего «Шведа», Реардон раскрывает тайну кровавых преступлений и предательств, в центре которых ослепительная женщина-вамп Китти Коллинз. Он слишком близко подходит к давней загадке исчезнувших 250 000 долларов и теперь у него появляется новая задача: выжить!
Secretary (uncredited)
Крис Кросс, застенчивый, наивный господин, утомившийся от собственного благополучия, спасает красивую девушку Китти от неуравновешенного приятеля. Герой увлекается Китти и позволяет ей считать себя состоятельным и успешным художником, не подозревая, что у новой знакомой и ее жениха имеются свои планы относительно него.
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
WAVE
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
The Nurse
Роберт Гриффин, считавшийся пропашим во время экспедиции в Африку за бриллиантами, пять лет спустя появляется у дверей дома своего бывшего компаньона Джаспера Херрика и начинает требовать свою долю прибыли. Однако Херрик выставляет старого товарища вон. Загоревшись идеей мести, Гриффин принимает участие в научном эксперименте профессора Друри и становится невидимым, а стало быть, почти неуязвимым.
Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
War Plant Worker
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
Divorcee
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Nurse (uncredited)
Скромный и тихий скрипач средних лет Эрик Клодин отказывает себе во всем и тратит все сбережения на тайное спонсирование уроков пения юной Кристин Дюбуа, к которой питает тайную страсть. Та об этом не подозревает и не обращает никакого внимания на музыканта, у неё уже есть два поклонника - оперный тенор Анатоль Гаррон и Рауль Д`Обер, инспектор Сюртэ. Доведенный до отчаяния Эрик совершает убийство музыкального издателя, но в результате его лицо становится обезображенным кислотой. Теперь цель его жизни - уничтожить всех, кто окружает Кристин...
Bernice
This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.
Barmaid (uncredited)
Картина режиссера Роя Уиллима Неилла начинается как обычный детектив, но постепенно напряжение нарастает, и зрителей подводят к незабываемой схватке героев. Воскресший Человек-волк, который хочет излечиться от своей болезни, обращается за помощью к сумасшедшему ученому Патрику Ноулесу. Последний заявляет, что не только навсегда избавит Человека-волка от его ночных превращений, но и вернет жизнь замороженному телу нечеловеческого творения Франкенштейна.
Tenement Girl (uncredited)
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
Anna Bailey
Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Orlebeck.
Azura, Queen of Mars
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS: Flash Gordon fights Ming the Merciless once again to ensure the survival of the Earth.
Helen McCoy
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
Passerby (uncredited)
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Queen Azura
A 15-episode serial starring Buster Crabbe.
Joan Lawson
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
Alice
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls.
Susan Bailey
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
Peggy O'Shea
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.
Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Party Guest (uncredited)
Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is built on unconditional trust, friends, and even Van's mother, caution Linda about the dangers of allowing Whitey, her husband's extremely sexy secretary, to continue to have access to him. Although Whitey has a faithful boyfriend, she secretly harbors unrequited feelings for her boss. When they take a business trip to Havana, circumstantial evidence convinces Linda that the rumors she's heard may have a basis in fact.
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Драматический мюзикл по мотивам одноимённой оперной постановки. Действие разворачивается накануне первой волны колонизации. В поисках любви и приключений, принцесса Мариетта бежит прочь из королевского дворца. Под видом переселенки она садится на судно, плывущее в Новый Орлеан. У берегов Вест-Индии корабль путешественников подвергается нападению пиратов. К счастью, оказавшийся рядом капитан Уортингтон быстро освобождает пленников.
Woman in Party at Night Club
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Party Guest (Uncredited)
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
