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So You Think the Grass Is Greener (1956)
Character: Geraldine Backspace (uncredited)
When he gets to his office after a usual morning of nagging by his wife, Alice, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married to the beautiful office blonde.
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The Web of Love (1966)
Character: Self
This two-minute short film from Scopitone features actress Joi Lansing singing Trapped in the Web of Love.
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Inside Magoo (1960)
Character: Nurse
A public-service announcement from the American Cancer Society featuring Mr. Magoo. Not part of the regular series, this rare cartoon begins with a bunch of clips talking about the history of the movies, then has some discussion about how Magoo is made, and a talk with Jim Backus. Then the bulk of the film is a Mr. Magoo cartoon featuring Magoo learning about cancer danger signs and how to protect yourself.
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So You Want to Be a V.P. (1955)
Character: (uncredited)
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
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When a Girl's Beautiful (1947)
Character: Model
An advertising man has to come with "the perfect woman" for an ad campaign. He puts together a picture of a woman from a composite of several photos, to get an idea of the kind of woman he should look for. His boss sees it, thinks that it is an actual woman, and orders him to find her and use her in the campaign.
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If You Knew Elizabeth (1957)
Character: Miss Swanson
The life and complex relationships of ambitious college professor Walter Hubbard and the titular character, Elizabeth Owen, exploring the deeply intertwined personal and professional conflicts he faces, and how Elizabeth's presence and their history together reshape his trajectory.
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The Best Man (1964)
Character: Girl At Pool
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
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The Brave One (1956)
Character: Marion Randall
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Character: Girl On Train
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
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Queen of Outer Space (1958)
Character: Larry's Girl (uncredited)
An aborted mission strands a crew on Venus where they find the planet inhabited only by women led by their evil Queen Yllana. Yllana had all the men of Venus killed, now that's she met Earth men, she wants them dead, too.
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A Hole in the Head (1959)
Character: Dorine
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
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The House of Tomorrow (1949)
Character: Woman on television (uncredited)
Tex Avery's narrator shows us the amazing features of the ultra-modern House of Tomorrow.
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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Character: Chorus Girl (uncredited)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Character: Miss November (uncredited)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
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Glory Alley (1952)
Character: Chorus Girl
A New Orleans boxer leaves the ring to fight his inner demons.
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The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
Character: Model
Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl". What the world doesn't know is that his pin-up creation is really a composite of parts of the anatomy of 12 different models. In an effort to find one girl who possesses all the proper physical attributes, Randolph and PR man Chuck Donovan pursue Ruth Wilson, a beauteous schoolteacher who prefers to be admired for her brain rather than her curves. Ruth changes her tune, however, when a published photo of her in a swimsuit causes her to be fired by the uptight schoolboard. She sues for reinstatement and in the process learns that swimsuits and sex appeal do have a place in her world, after all. Written by Dan Navarro
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Bigfoot (1970)
Character: Joi Landis
Bigfoot kidnaps some women and some bikers decide to go on a rescue mission to save them.
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In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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Linda, Be Good (1947)
Character: Cameo Girl
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
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Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Character: Blonde (uncredited)
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.
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Finger Man (1955)
Character: Blonde in bar
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
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On the Riviera (1951)
Character: Marilyn Turner (uncredited)
In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French military pilot.
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The Merry Widow (1952)
Character: Girl at Maxim's (uncredited)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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It's a Dog's Life (1955)
Character: Woman with Afghan Hounds
A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.
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Julia Misbehaves (1948)
Character: Mannequin
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
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But Not for Me (1959)
Character: Blonde Bathing Beauty
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn, plots to end his new relationship.
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Hot Cars (1956)
Character: Karen Winter
Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
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Easter Parade (1948)
Character: Hat Model / Showgirl (uncredited)
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.
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The French Line (1954)
Character: Model In Hallway
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
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Key to the City (1950)
Character: Miss Garbage Truck
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron Kerrigan
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Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
Character: Boots Malone
Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion. Soon they realize that the house is not only haunted, but is also the headquarters of a ring of international spies after a top secret formula for rocket fuel.
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It Started with a Kiss (1959)
Character: Checkroom Girl (uncredited)
While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.
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Touch of Evil (1958)
Character: Zita
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
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FBI Girl (1951)
Character: Susan Matthews
G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.
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Terror at Midnight (1956)
Character: Hazel
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.
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Hot Shots (1956)
Character: Connie Forbes
Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.
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The Atomic Submarine (1959)
Character: Julie
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.
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Son of Sinbad (1955)
Character: Harem Girl
Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.
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Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
Character: Showgirl
A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.
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Who Was That Lady? (1960)
Character: Florence Coogle
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
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Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
Character: Lola
Ad-agency president Dan Edwards goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary and winds up getting divorced by mistake, whereupon his wife Valerie marries his best friend Ernie Brewer by mistake.
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The Fountain of Youth (1958)
Character: Carolyn Coates
A darkly comic fable about vanity and desire, "The Fountain of Youth" follows a newly married couple whose relationship is destabilized by the arrival of a potion that promises centuries of youth and beauty—but in a quantity sufficient for only one person. As temptation and resentment grow, the gift becomes a catalyst for moral and emotional collapse. Written, directed, and narrated by Orson Welles and based on John Collier’s short story “Youth from Vienna,” the film uses stylized narration and experimental visual techniques to construct a compact essay on human vanity. (Note: Originally produced in 1956 as a television pilot and broadcast once in 1958 as part of NBC’s Colgate Theatre anthology series (S1E5); it later achieved independent archival and cultural status, including a 1958 Peabody Award.)
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Neptune's Daughter (1949)
Character: Linda (uncredited)
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
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Pier 23 (1951)
Character: The Cocktail Waitress
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison.
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T.V. of Tomorrow (1953)
Character: Swimsuit Model
A variety of fanciful innovations in "future" T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models. And of course, even with dozens of channels, there's nothing on...or more accurately, there's nothing but the same Western.
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Blondie's Secret (1948)
Character: Bathing Girl in Dream
Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood's presence, Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood's luggage so that they'll have to stay in town. And that's only the beginning of the frantic fun.
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