Nydia Westman
Рождение : 1902-02-19, New York City, New York, USA
Смерть : 1970-05-23
История
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Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television.
Westman's parents, Theodore and Lily (Wren) Westman were active in vaudeville in her native New York City. In addition to their working together on stage, her mother was a writer and her father was a composer. She attended the Professional Children's School.
Her sisters, Lolita and Neville were actresses, and her brother, Theodore (d. November 20, 1927), was an actor and playwright.
Westman's career ranged from episodic appearances on TV series such as That Girl and Dragnet and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in groundbreaking films (such as Craig's Wife, which starred Rosalind Russell, and the first film version of Little Women.
Westman's screen debut came in Strange Justice (1922). She appeared in 31 films in the 1930s.
She appeared as the housekeeper Mrs. Featherstone in the 1962–1963 ABC series, Going My Way, which starred Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll as Roman Catholic priests in New York City.
Westman's first Broadway play was Pigs (1924); her last was Midgie Purvis (1961).
She broke ground on stage, debuting the role of Nell off-Broadway in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, for which she won one of the first Obie awards.
Westman was married to Robert Sparks, a producer, from 1930 until 1937; they had a daughter, actress Kate Williamson, born on September 19, 1931.
Westman died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight in Burbank, California.
Mrs. Smith
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
Aunt Zana
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
Aunt Cora
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
Mrs. Henderson
Штат Техас. В тихом провинциальном городке следит за порядком добропорядочный шериф Колдер. Однажды покой городка нарушает известие о том, что из тюрьмы бежал Баббер, который желает свести старые счеты кое с кем из жителей города. Коррумпированные отцы города испугались появления беглеца, ведь он слишком много знает об их грязном прошлом.
Mrs. Cobb
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Milo's Wife
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.
Amy
A TV executive tries to create a musical special to save his network.
Serena Applegate
In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.
Susan Crane
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Jane Willing
George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.
Aunt Penolope
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Mrs. Bowers (uncredited)
Пилот влюбляется в европейскую принцессу, которая скрывает свой статус во время поездки в США.
Nurse Willing
Декабрь 1943 года. США вступает в воздушное противостояние с Германией, открыв второй фронт с союзниками. Американские летчики готовят свои боевые машины к полету через Атлантику в оккупированную фашистами Европу. Популярная певица Пени Крэйг знакомится в пункте переливания крови красного креста с Биллом Морли летчиком дальней авиации США, который, ради шутки выдает себя за врача. Они влюбляются друг в друга с первого взгляда, но война есть война и её любимый должен лететьна фронт. Пени решает внести свой вклад в борьбу с нацистами, она надевает рабочий комбинезон и как многие её сверстницы идет работать на авиазавод, чтобы помочь стране в тяжелые дни. В перерывах между работой она поёт своим друзьямпрекрасные песни, которые подхватывает вся Америка.
Lewis, M.J.'s Secretary
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?
Miss Van Buren
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Angela Hardy
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan.
Lulu Perkins
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Cicily
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
Lulu
Официантка Хелен встречает Филиппа Шагала, представившегося безработным музыкантом, и влюбляется в него. Филипп приглашает её на свидание, и она узнаёт, что он знаменитый пианист. Начинается ураган, на их машину обрушивается дерево, и влюблённые продолжают путь пешком. На ночь они находят убежище в церкви. А утром Хелен узнаёт, что Филипп женат...
Gwen Longworth
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
Midge
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Ada
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.
Gwen Longworth
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
'Dotty' Leonard
In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a mentor turns her into a successful Broadway entertainer. She returns to her former college to get sweet revenge.
Susie Reynolds
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
Slavey - Hotel Maid
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Mazie
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
Maybelle
Это историческая драма, когда штаты государства боролись против объединения в мощный союз и за собственную самостоятельность. Все это происходит на фоне рассказа о жизни Маргарет «Пеги» О`Нил Итон, которая получила известность в годы президентства Эндрю Джексона. История начинается еще до избрания в президенты ее дяди. Девушка, является дочерью хозяина гостиницы в Вашингтоне, где предпочитают останавливаться политики. Она прекрасно образована и свободно выражает свои политические пристрастия. Но эти же самые политические убеждения заставляют ее отказаться от самой большой любви своей жизни Джона Рэндолфа, сенатора штата Вирджиния, который был политическим оппонентом ее дяди Джексона. После ее скоропалительного брака с морским офицером, который заканчивается для нее статусом вдовы, Пеги, по совету своего дяди, выходит замуж за влюбленного в нее сенатора и военного министра Итона, который поддерживал политику президента.
Briggs (uncredited)
Доктор Янош Рух обнаруживает источник нового излучения, которое обладает почти волшебными целебными свойствами. Но вещество таит в себе и опасность, и оно начинает влиять на разум Руха. Охваченный паранойей, он подозревает, что его открытие украли другие ученые. Одержимый жаждой мести, Рух собирается использовать собственное отравленное тело в качестве орудия убийства.
Peggy 'Peg' Woofers
Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
Emily Judson
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
Gertie
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
Nellie
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
Susie Flamberg
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
Muriel
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Annette
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
Carmela Ramirez
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.
Dinah McCabe
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
Corie
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Mamie
Гражданская война в США. Сестры Мэг, Джо, Бесс и Эмми живут дружно, невзирая на внешние обстоятельства. Их отец находится на фронте, и семье, ведомой их любимой мамой, необходимо как-то свести концы с концами. Существенную помощь семейству оказывают их сосед мистер Лоуренс и его внук Лори…
Sister Sagrario
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Annette
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
Irma
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
Sue
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Sue Wells
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
Miss Wood
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Gwen
Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and is blackmailed by him into continuing. Close to being found out, the two devise a scheme which sends Wally, the ex-con boyfriend of pretty hat check girl Rose Abbott, to death row.
