Kay Medford

Kay Medford

Рождение : 1919-09-14, New York City, New York, USA

Смерть : 1980-04-10

История

Margaret Kathleen Regan (born September 14, 1919 – April 10, 1980), better known as Kay Medford, was an American actress. For her performance as Rose Brice in the musical Funny Girl and the film adaptation of the same name, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Профиль

Kay Medford
Kay Medford
Kay Medford
Kay Medford
Kay Medford
Kay Medford

Фильмы

Windows
Ida Marx
Emily Hollander becomes the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen, her next-door neighbour.
More Than Friends
Gertie
Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she does too.
Fire Sale
Ruth Fikus
Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.
No Place to Run
Landlady
An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Hallie
An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him.
Лола
Mrs. Wardman-Scott's mother
Чарльз Бронсон исполняет в этом фильме роль матерого литератора,подвизающегося на ниве порнороманов. Именно это его умение завлекает в любовные сети молоденьких несмышленых девчонок, даже не достигших половой зрелости.
Angel in My Pocket
Racine
The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Self (uncredited)
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
Смешная девчонка
Rose Brice
На пути к славе и успеху, Фанни Брайс пришлось пройти от гадкого утенка до прекрасного лебедя. На сцене она — звезда, охапки роз падают к ногам, зал взрывается овациями. Но за эти упоительные, волшебные секунды ей приходится расплачиваться горькими, одинокими ночами, полными слез и ревности.
The Busy Body
Ma Norton
Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
Прекрасное безумие
Mrs. Fish
Доведенный до нервного срыва, поэт Самсон Шиллито никак не может закончить свою поэму. Ему мешают постоянные неурядицы в личной жизни и многочисленные истории с женщинами, метания, непонимание окружающих, преследования обиженных мужей, кредиторов и судебных приставов, требующих с него алименты… в общем, за что бы он ни взялся, где бы ни появился, там наступает хаос и разрушение. На свое произведение, свой шедевр, поэт возлагает большие надежды. Но поэма не пишется, да и как же обрести вдохновение, когда в голове и в жизни царит полный бардак?
Ensign Pulver
Head Nurse
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. In one word: he drives his crew crazy. They are near mutiny, but no-one dares to do the first step. Until Ensign Pulver plays a prank on the captain that triggers fatal consequences...
Two Tickets to Paris
Aggie
In this musical, fairly light movie, two young people, Joey and Piper are in love. They embark on a cruise to Paris to get married, with the acerbic but kind Aggie as a chaperon. Along the way, their sweet innocent romance runs into trouble when Coco, a french dancer uses Joey to make her straying boyfriend jealous.
Girl of the Night
Rowena Claiborne
Bobbie is a sensitive, lonely call girl who is manipulated and ultimately used by her madam.
Баттерфилд 8
Happy
Элизабет Тэйлор играет роль Глории, высококлассной проститутки, заказать которую можно, попросив оператора соединить с «Баттерфилд 8». Характер у Глории очень твердый и женщина она неординарная — с одной стороны, бушует горячая плоть, с другой — ум и совесть на страже. Росла она без отца, мать ею пренебрегала, красотка порхала от одного любовника к другому, пока. Коса нашла на камень, когда она познакомилась с Лоренсом Харви, человеком из высшего общества. Их страсть переходит в любовь, они пытаются справиться со своими эмоциями, ведя непрерывную войну друг с другом. Ситуация осложнена тем, что у Харви любящая, преданная жена, много денег, спокойная респектабельная работа и пр.
Мышиная возня
"Soda" Gallo
Романтическая комедия о взаимоотношениях многообещающего музыканта, приехавшего в Нью-Йорк в поисках денег и славы, и профессиональной танцовщицы…
Jamboree!
Grace Show
Jamboree adheres to the usual formula of late-1950s rock&roll films: A plethora of musical numbers linked together by the wispiest of plotlines. Kay Medford heads the cast as manipulative showbiz agent Grace Shaw. Hoping to land pop singer Pete Porter (Paul Carr), Grace connives to break up Pete's romance with female vocalist Honey Wynn (Freda Holloway). But who cares? The audience came to see such musical faves as Fats Domino, Count Basie, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jodie Sands, Ron Coby, Slim Whitman, Carl Perkins, Frankie Avalon, Charlie Gracie and the Four Coins. As a promotional tie-in, Jamboree also features appearances by 21 of North America's top rock-and-roll deejays.
Лицо в толпе
First Mrs. Rhodes
В поисках новых имен радиожурналистка раскапывает в захолустной тюрьме быковатого люмпена с гитарой. Год спустя он уже воспитывает нацию с экранов национального ТВ, приводя в ужас создательницу.
Singing in the Dark
Luli
Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a bar in the hotel gives him a drink, he breaks out in song and discovers a great voice. Under a psychiatrist's treatment, and because of a blow to the head by some hoodlums, he realizes his name is David and that he was the son of a great Jewish Cantor, and gradually recovers his memory of losing his parents. He gives up a promising career singing in nightclubs to return to the synagogue.
Mr. Walkie Talkie
Marge
Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.
La bisarca
Anna Paperiska
Guilty Bystander
Angel
A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
The Undercover Man
Gladys LaVerne
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
Tap Roots
Caller (uncredited)
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Adventure
Red (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Return from Nowhere
Waitress (uncredited)
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.
Swing Shift Maisie
Ann Wilson
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Slightly Dangerous
Girl getting off bus (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Northwest Rangers
Girl in Casino
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Flossie Jones
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
Maisie Gets Her Man
Woman in Audience (Uncredited)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?