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Ghost Diver (1957)
Character: Anne Stevens
While deep sea diving off the South American coast, Papa Rico, the owner of a fishing boat, finds the statue of an idol, a remnant of the lost treasure of the Paracan Indians.
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Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997)
Character: Self
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his Hollywood successes and eventual decline. The film features a vast array of never-before-seen footage of the actor, ranging from remains of his 1918 film Struggle for Life to behind-the-scenes home movies on the set of RKO Studios. Lugosi is peppered with dozens of rare films clips and photographs, with the story itself coming to life thanks to the vast array of on-camera interviewees.
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Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004)
Character: Self
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments and speaks, among others, with directors such as Richard Fleischer and Robert Wise as well as with "femme fatale" actresses. Filmmakers of the following generations explain how the style and themes of noir continue to shape cinema today.
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The Nativity (1978)
Character: Elizabeth
The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
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The Outsider (1967)
Character: Mrs. Bishop
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.
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The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway (1980)
Character: Judge
Two teenagers on the run with a quarter of a million dollars belonging to an illegal drug ring are pursued by a suave crime czar and, after they gain a celebrity of sorts, by the whole country, which wants to partake of their largesse in their coast-to-coast spending spree.
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That's Entertainment! (1974)
Character: (archive footage) (uncredited)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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Tension (1949)
Character: Claire Quimby
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it. He decides to assume a new identity in order to murder his wife's lover without leaving a trace. Along the way, his plans are complicated by an attractive neighbor, as well as a shocking discovery that opens up a new world of doubts and accusations.
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Massacre Canyon (1954)
Character: Flaxy
A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
Character: Martha Osten
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!
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City Killer (1984)
Character: Receptionist
An attractive young girl is being watched closely by her ex-lover, but matters soon start to escalate and run out of control.
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A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Character: Joyce Geary
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
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Cruisin' Down the River (1953)
Character: Sally Jane Jackson
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his worse enemy.
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The Beginning or the End (1947)
Character: Jean O'Leary
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
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Under the Gun (1951)
Character: Ruth Williams
A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.
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The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Character: Prostitute
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.
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Chubasco (1968)
Character: Theresa
A wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.
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Dangerous Partners (1945)
Character: Lili Roegan
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
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Women's Prison (1955)
Character: Joan Burton
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
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Bewitched (1945)
Character: Karen (voice)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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Bewitched (1945)
Character: Karen (voice) (uncredited)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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Jet Attack (1958)
Character: Tanya Nikova
A Soviet nurse helps a U.S. pilot, his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Suicide Battalion".
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The Blue Veil (1951)
Character: Helen Williams
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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High Wall (1947)
Character: Dr. Ann Lorrison
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
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Any Number Can Play (1949)
Character: Alice Elcott
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)
Character: Jennifer Griggs
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
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The Secret Heart (1946)
Character: Dinner Party Guest (Voice)
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
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The Set-Up (1949)
Character: Julie
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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The Saxon Charm (1948)
Character: Alma Wragg
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
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Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006)
Character: Self
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing intimate peeks at its tough, scheming dames, mischievous misfits and flawed men - all caught in the wicked web of a twisted fate.
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FBI Girl (1951)
Character: Shirley Wayne
G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.
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The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)
Character: Lisa Borescu
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each other and get married that night. However, when the sailor is notified that he has been reclassified as 4-F (unfit for service) by the Navy and then discharged, he and his new wife realize that, having to set up house before they expected to, they actually know very little about each other. Complications ensue.
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My Pal Gus (1952)
Character: Joyce Jennings
A single father falls in love with his son's schoolteacher.
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Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
Character: Kate Quantrill / Kitty McCoy
Led by its female mayor, a neutral town on the Arkansas-Missouri border during the Civil War attempts to stay peaceful. A newcomer looking for her brother is pulled into the town’s violence.
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Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
Character: Woman on Rooftop (uncredited)
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
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Champ for a Day (1953)
Character: Miss Peggy Gormley
An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.
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The Sellout (1952)
Character: Cleo Bethel
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
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Lady in the Lake (1946)
Character: Adrienne Fromsett
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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Man or Gun (1958)
Character: Fran Dare
Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town of Dusty Flats. After outdrawing wanted outlaw Buckstorm Corley in the saloon, Smith finds himself up against the entire corrupt Corley clan -- who've been running roughshod over the fearful townsfolk for years.
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The Hidden Eye (1945)
Character: Perfume Sales Clerk
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
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The Unsuspected (1947)
Character: Althea Keane
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
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Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Character: Donna Allen
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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Assignment: Paris (1952)
Character: Sandy Tate
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
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The Vanishing American (1955)
Character: Marion Warner
A woman arrives in New Mexico to claim property she's inherited and receives an education in the greedy exploitation of the local Navajo.
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Man in the Dark (1953)
Character: Peg Benedict
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.
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Harlow (1965)
Character: Marilyn
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley in the title role that begins as Jean Harlow, a bit player in Laurel and Hardy comedies, is invited to test for director Jonathan Martin for the lead in Howard Hughes's "Hell's Angels." She is an instantaneous sensation, and in a series of films devoted more to her body than her talent, she becomes Hollywood's "Platinum Blonde."
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Operation Heartbeat (1969)
Character: Eve Wilcox
Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be transplanted into the doctor's ailing mentor and friend. Operation Heartbeat was the pilot movie for the TV series Medical Center.
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Adventure (1945)
Character: Ethel (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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