Anne Gwynne
Рождение : 1918-12-10, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Смерть : 2003-03-31
История
Anne Gwynne was signed by Universal Pictures when she was 20 yrs old, and co-starred in "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" with Buster Crabbe soon thereafter . Over the next years, Miss Gwynne would be featured in some thirty-eight Universal films, and become one of the studio’s most recognizable stars. She co-starred in an additional 20 films, for MGM, Allied Artists, and RKO Pictures among other studios.
Anne Gwynne co-starred in what was the first filmed dramatic series for television, 1947-1948's "Public Prosecutor", filming 26 episodes for NBC (also known as "Crawford Mystery Theatre"). Anne Gwynne's motion picture and television career spanned the years 1939 through 1970.
Mrs. Gaines
A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.
Rita, the girl
An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.
Ruth Cannon
In a little Western town, a boy is subjected to rays from a meteor. As a result, he grows into a teenaged, hairy, psychopathic killer. His mother hides him in her basement.
Candy Allen
A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.
Jane Kerrigan
A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thief.
Nancy Craig
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
Kitty Kelly
Gene Autry hunts bank robbers Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas with his old friend Mike. Bartlett, to throw off his pursuers, kills Trot and his own brother. When Kitty Bartlett comes to town claiming to be the slain Bartlett's widow, Gene has to save her from the irate townspeople who are not aware that her name isn't Bartlett but she really is the daughter of a law officer slain by Al Bartlett. Ben Luder, a local hood, tricks Bartlett back into town by saying he has to fixed to have Doc Larry Taylor do plastic surgery on him. En route they meet Doc and his assistant Helen Ellis and Ben's ruse is exposed. Bartlett kills Ben and forces Doc to drive him to the railroad. Gene, in a fight atop a runaway train, captures Bartlett.
Jane Jennings
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
Midge Gray
Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.
June O'Carroll
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
Tess Trueheart
Преступники узнают о секретном газе, который парализует человека. Один из бандитов случайно вдыхает газ и падает в обморок. Полицейские, думая что он мертв, относят его в морг, откуда он, ожив, убегает. Этот случай привлекает внимание Дика, и когда преступники используют газ, чтобы ограбить банк, Трейси начинает действовать.
Phyllis Beecher
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
Judy Parker
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
Belle Martin
Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.
Eileen Stevens
B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.
Brooke Peters
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her.
Rita Hussman
Учёный Густав Ниманн восхищён трудами своего коллеги Виктора Франкенштейна и обещает сокамернику — горбуну Дэниэлу — новое здоровое тело, если им удастся покинуть застенки и найти рукописи Франкенштейна. Воспользовавшись случаем, они совершают побег и тут же убивают проезжавшего мимо некоего Лампини, колесящего по округе со своей передвижной «Комнатой ужасов». Ослеплённый жаждой мести, Ниманн направляется в город, где некогда его приговорили к тюремному сроку, чтобы не только совершить возмездие, но и возродить к жизни Человека-оборотня и чудовище Франкенштейна, похороненных под руинами лаборатории...
Frances Carlyle
The president of a settlement-house group puts on a benefit variety show.
Nan
A singer, her girlfriends and a mystery writer stay in the house where her father was killed.
Dixie Holister
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
Marion Corbett
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
Paula Clayton Reed
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
Gerry Vail
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
Pat Warren
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.
Chris Prentice
A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get for their beef. They set out to change the situation.
Nina Lambert
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate.
Nurse (uncredited)
World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis.
Nurse
Topical wartime short depicting the plight of civilians who must stay in shape in order to fight the good fight.
Laura Kirby
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.
Jane Baxter Scott
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
Pearl
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Kit Bellamy
Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
Kit Logan Church
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
Anne Shaw
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Doris Daniels
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
Susan Blair
Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.
Patricia Leavitt
Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their alibi checks out. Far from offended by his ill treatment, Duke agrees to take the job of sheriff, retaining Pancho and Andy as his deputies. The gruesome threesome then sets about to solve a series of mysterious Wells Fargo robberies
Patricia Reynolds
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."
Marion Barker
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
Ruth
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
Elaine Winslow
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Mary Morgan
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
Sylvia Dana
Провинциальная Америка. Отец семейства поглощен работой над книгой «О вкусной и здоровой пище». Старшая дочь Сильвия стремится стать актрисой. Младшая дочь Нэнси — неугомонный подросток, а средняя дочь Джейн сыта по горло своей ролью местной «хорошей девочки».
Ее друг Дон Уэбб больше интересуется автомобилем, чем ею и это обстоятельство расстраивает Джейн. Однажды в их доме появляется коллега отца — молодой ученый Ричард Калверт. Джейн поручается сопровождать гостя и надо же такому случится, чтобы заглохла машина Джейн. В конечном результате молодая девушка провела ночь в квартире незнакомого мужчины, а затем вернулась в родной дом в чужой пижаме.
По городку поползли недобрые слухи, что «хорошая девочка» помолвлена с Ричардом. Чтобы прекратить сплетни Ричард и Джейн симулировали сначала влюбленность, а затем «ссору». Дон тем временем поступил на военную службу. Влюбленная в него Джейн примчалась к солдату в часть, где бывший автомеханик признался девушке в любви.
Julie Mason
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
Jenny
Симпатичная девушка крестьянка Илонка Толнэй из горной деревушки направляется на ярмарку в ближайший городок, где птица цыгана вытаскивает ей записку-предсказание с обещанием счастливой судьбоносной встречи и скорой свадьбы. Девушка, волею судьбы, попадает в Вену, в дом пекаря, который поставляет выпечку императору. Однажды она встречает армейского барабанщика Гарри Мартена, тайно мечтающего стать композитором и дирижером. К сожалению, военный устав запрещает молодому капралу создавать свою собственную музыку. На помощь загрустившему таланту приходит предприимчивая и наивная Илонка. Девушка отправляет листы с нотами вместе с ежедневной порцией печенья во дворец. С этого момента начинают сбываться волшебное предсказание цыгана…
Tibby Mason
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder.
Millie
Mary and Joe Phillips' (Nan Grey and Tom Brown) attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
Sonja
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov, this time with ready-made allies waiting: Prince Barin of Arboria and Queen Fria of the frozen northern land of Frigia; where, it so happens, is found polarite, antidote to the plague. But Ming will use all his forces to keep our heroes from thwarting his plans of conquest.
Society Girl (uncredited)
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
Jean Sovac
Во время уличной драки профессор университета Кингсли оказывается серьёзно ранен. В это же время аналогичный случай происходит с гангстером Кэнноном. Чтобы спасти своего друга, доктор Совак трансплантирует профессору часть мозга гангстера, который умирает. Но теперь Кингсли знает, где находится тайник с награбленными деньгами, которые Кэннон похитил у своего соперника Марнея. Получив мозг гангстера, Кингсли начинает вести себя соответствующим образом.
Cecile Blades
Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to make sure he doesn't get too friendly with any members of the opposite sex, either.
Josephine Weaver (uncredited)
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
Miss Larkin, Charlie's Nurse
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
Doris Blair
The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The stars are cast respectively as fur trapper Clark Manning and constable Bones Blair, who carry on a friendly rivalry in the Canadian Northwest. Our heroes team up in the final reels to put the kibosh on a fur-smuggling racket, permitting Universal to plunge deeply into its stock-footage files. The leading ladies this time out are Anne Gwynne and Kay Sutton, their billing status indicating which one of the two ladies will land Clark Manning in the last scene. Incredibly, the Arlen-Devine series lasted for 14 films, none of them classics but all of them worthwhile Saturday-matinee fare.
Janet Rankin
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is also after the same section and has hired outlaws to make sure he gets it. When Jeff gives Rankin a map, the outlaws kill Rankin, steal the map, and frame Jeff for the murder. Scheduled to be hung the day of the land rush, Jeff's pal Frosty has a plan to free him.
Kitty - showgirl
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.