Lynn Bari

Born: 1913-12-18

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lynn Bari (born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s. Bari was one of 14 young women "launched on the trail of film stardom" August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century Fox after spending 18 months in the company's training school. The contracts included a studio option for renewal for as long as seven years. In most of her early films, Bari had uncredited parts usually playing receptionists or chorus girls. She struggled to find starring roles in films, but accepted any work she could get. Rare leading roles included China Girl (1942), Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943), and The Spiritualist (1948). In B movies, Lynn was usually cast as a villainess, notably Shock and Nocturne (both 1946). An exception was The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944). During WWII, according to a survey taken of GIs, Bari was the second-most popular pinup girl after the much better-known Betty Grable. Bari's film career fizzled out in the early 1950s as she was approaching her 40th birthday, although she continued to work at a more limited pace over the next two decades, now playing matronly characters rather than temptresses. She portrayed the mother of a suicidal teenager in a 1951 drama, On the Loose, plus a number of supporting parts. Bari's last film appearance was as the mother of rebellious teenager Patty McCormack in The Young Runaways (1968) and her final TV appearances were in episodes of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. and The FBI. She quickly took up the rising medium of television during the '50s, which began when she starred in the live television sitcom Detective's Wife, which ran during the summer of 1950, and in Boss Lady In 1955, Bari appeared in the episode "The Beautiful Miss X" of Rod Cameron's syndicated crime drama City Detective. In 1960, she played female bandit Belle Starr in the debut episode "Perilous Passage" of the NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure and with fellow guest star Robert J. Wilke as Cole Younger. From July–September 1952, Bari starred in her own situation comedy, Boss Lady, a summer replacement for NBC's Fireside Theater. She portrayed Gwen F. Allen, the beautiful top executive of a construction firm. Not the least of her troubles in the role was being able to hire a general manager who did not fall in love with her. Commenting on her "other woman" roles, Bari once said, "I seem to be a woman always with a gun in her purse. I'm terrified of guns. I go from one set to the other shooting people and stealing husbands!"


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Private Number

as Gambler (Uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-05

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son...

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Kit Carson

as Dolores Murphy
Released: 1940-08-30

Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.

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Blood and Sand

as Encarnacion
Released: 1941-05-30

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who...

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

as Leota Van Cleef
Released: 1955-02-02

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman....

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China Girl

as Captain Fifi
Released: 1942-12-09

Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early...

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Hollywood Cavalcade

as Actress
Released: 1939-10-13

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she...

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Café Metropole

as Patron at Sidewalk Café (uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-28

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

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Charlie Chan in Paris

as Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1935-01-21

Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a...

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Ladies In Love

as Dress Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Released: 1936-10-09

Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.

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Dancing Lady

as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1933-11-24

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton,...

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Sleepers West

as Kay Bentley
Released: 1941-03-14

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder...

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The Amazing Mr. X

as Christine Faber
Released: 1948-07-29

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband...

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City in Darkness

as Marie Dubon
Released: 1939-11-15

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating...

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Mr. Moto's Gamble

as Penny Kendall
Released: 1938-04-07

Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into...

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The Women of Pitcairn Island

as Maimiti
Released: 1956-12-01

The widows and children of survivors of the H.M.S. Bounty rule Pitcairn Island, fighting off...

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Francis Joins the WACS

as Louise Simpson
Released: 1954-07-30

Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!

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Show Them No Mercy!

as Crowd Scene Member (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-06

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly...

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Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

as Harriet Blaisdell
Released: 1952-06-25

When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend...

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Pack Up Your Troubles

as Yvonne
Released: 1939-10-24

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

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Shock

as Nurse Elaine Jordan
Released: 1946-02-01

In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder,...

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Nocturne

as Frances Ransom
Released: 1946-10-29

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest...

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Love and Hisses

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1937-12-21

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist...

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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

as Mrs. Billywith
Released: 1951-02-17

A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in...

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Caravan

as Gypsy (Uncredited)
Released: 1934-12-30

A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine...

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Captain Eddie

as Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker
Released: 1945-06-18

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race...

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Doubting Thomas

as Aspiring Actress
Released: 1935-07-10

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local...

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News Is Made at Night

as Maxine Thomas
Released: 1939-07-20

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free...

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Orchestra Wives

as Jaynie Stevens
Released: 1942-09-04

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her...

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I Am Suzanne!

as Audience Member
Released: 1933-12-25

A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. ...

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You Can't Have Everything

as Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
Released: 1937-08-02

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate...

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Lillian Russell

as Edna McCauley
Released: 1940-05-24

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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The Falcon Takes Over

as Ann Riordan
Released: 1942-05-29

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police...

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Always Goodbye

as Jessica Reid
Released: 1938-06-24

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor...

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On the Loose

as Larry Lindsay
Released: 1951-09-28

After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical...

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Bottoms Up

as Chorine (uncredited)
Released: 1934-04-12

Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda...

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Way Down East

as Dancing Girl at Party (uncredited)
Released: 1935-10-25

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that...

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The Return of the Cisco Kid

as Ann Carver
Released: 1939-04-28

In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco...

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Damn Citizen

as Pat Noble
Released: 1958-03-01

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police...

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The Baroness and the Butler

as Klari - Maid
Released: 1938-02-18

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

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The Man from Texas

as Charlie Jackson
Released: 1948-03-06

James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid,"...

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Love Is News

as 'Babe' - Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1937-02-26

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she...

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Music in the Air

as Dancer (uncredited)
Released: 1934-12-13

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead...

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King of Burlesque

as Dancer (uncredited)
Released: 1936-01-03

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on...

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Lancer Spy

as Miss Fenwick
Released: 1937-10-08

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a...

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Sun Valley Serenade

as Vivian Dawn
Released: 1941-08-29

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a...

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The Gay Deception

as Milk Fund Ball Attendee (uncredited)
Released: 1935-09-13

A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York...

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Home Sweet Homicide

as Marian Carstairs
Released: 1946-10-02

Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three...

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Redheads on Parade

as Waitress (uncredited)
Released: 1935-09-07

A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to...

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Josette

as Mrs. Elaine Dupree
Released: 1938-06-03

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think...

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as Michaela Villegas
Released: 1944-02-11

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their...

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Meet the Girls

as Terry Wilson
Released: 1938-10-06

Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must...

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Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

as Girl on Sailboat (uncredited)
Released: 1935-11-20

Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a...

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Battle of Broadway

as Marjorie Clark
Released: 1938-04-22

The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's...

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The Perfect Snob

as Chris Mason
Released: 1941-12-19

When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging...

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Speed to Burn

as Marion Clark
Released: 1938-06-07

Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been...

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Sweet and Low-Down

as Pat Stirling
Released: 1944-09-21

After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are...

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Under Your Spell

as Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
Released: 1936-11-06

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to...

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Hello, Frisco, Hello

as Bernice Croft
Released: 1943-03-26

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky...

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Earthbound

as Linda Reynolds
Released: 1940-06-06

A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.

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The Night Before the Divorce

as Lynn Nordyke
Released: 1942-03-06

Marital comedy with a dash of murder.

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Free, Blonde and 21

as Carol Northrup
Released: 1940-03-28

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a...

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Stand Up and Cheer!

as White House Secretary / Chorine (uncredited)
Released: 1934-05-04

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in...

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Trauma

as Helen Garrison
Released: 1962-03-23

Eight years after her aunt Helen Garrison is killed, newlywed niece Emmaline and husband Warren...

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Margie

as Miss Isabel Palmer
Released: 1946-10-15

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

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I Dream of Jeanie

as Mrs. McDowell
Released: 1952-06-15

The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.

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David Harum

as Young Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: 1934-03-02

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with...

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City of Chance

as Julie Reynolds
Released: 1940-01-13

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler...

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George White's 1935 Scandals

as Chorine (uncredited)
Released: 1935-03-29

A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for...

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Woman-Wise

as Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1937-01-22

A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.

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This Is My Affair

as Party Guest with Keller (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-28

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very...

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Tampico

as Katherine Hall
Released: 1944-04-10

A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues...

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365 Nights in Hollywood

as Showgirl (uncredited)
Released: 1934-12-11

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is...

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Music Is Magic

as Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Released: 1935-11-01

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from...

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Charter Pilot

as Marge Duncan
Released: 1940-12-06

US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to...

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On the Avenue

as Mary Jackson (uncredited)
Released: 1937-02-12

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get...

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We Go Fast

as Rose Coughlin
Released: 1941-09-19

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of...

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Pardon Our Nerve

as Terry Wilson
Released: 1939-02-24

Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer...

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Walking Down Broadway

as Sandra De Voe
Released: 1938-03-11

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway...

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Sing, Baby, Sing

as Hotel Telephone Operator
Released: 1936-08-21

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is...

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Crack-Up

as Office Worker (uncredited)
Released: 1936-12-14

Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.

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Pigskin Parade

as Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
Released: 1936-10-23

Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college...

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Thanks a Million

as Phone Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1935-11-13

A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his...

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I'll Give a Million

as Cecelia
Released: 1938-07-27

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out...

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Meet the Baron

as College Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1933-10-20

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

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Search for Beauty

as Beauty Contestant Entrant (uncredited)
Released: 1934-02-02

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine...

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Hotel for Women

as Barbara Hunter]
Released: 1939-08-03

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

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Coming Out Party

as Party Guest
Released: 1934-03-09

In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants...

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My Marriage

as Pat
Released: 1936-01-31

When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who...

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Wife, Doctor and Nurse

as Party Girl
Released: 1937-09-17

Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

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The Kid from Cleveland

as Katherine Jackson
Released: 1949-09-05

Johnny Barrows, a young man heading toward a life of juvenile delinquency as his home life...

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Time Out for Romance

as Bridesmaid
Released: 1937-02-10

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted...

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Pier 13

as Sally Kelly
Released: 1940-08-08

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront...

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She Had to Eat

as Crowd Scene Participant (uncredited)
Released: 1937-07-02

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric...

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The Magnificent Dope

as Claire Harris
Released: 1942-07-01

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest...

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Secret Agent of Japan

as Kay Murdock
Released: 1942-04-03

World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.

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Johnny Walker

as Christine Faber (archive footage)
Released: 2015-05-13

A washed up Hollywood director is trapped in a remote castle by his own fears until the arrival...

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$10 Raise

as Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1935-05-04

A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...

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Six Gun Law

as Mrs. Simmons
Released: 1962-12-01

Re-edited version of two episodes from the Disney series "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca"...

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Under Pressure

as Blonde Brooklyn Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1935-02-02

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each...

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The Young Runaways

as Mrs. Donford
Released: 1968-09-11

Three unhappy teenagers run away from home, only to discover living on their own isn't as...

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Handy Andy

as Girl at Train Station (uncredited)
Released: 1934-07-19

A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a...

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Chasing Danger

as Renée Claire
Released: 1939-05-05

When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds...

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Spring Tonic

as Bridesmaid
Released: 1935-06-27

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained...

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Sunny Side of the Street

as Mary
Released: 1951-09-01

A TV worker has fickle designs on an aspiring singer for whom she arranges an audition.

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Sharpshooters

as Dianne Woodward
Released: 1938-11-18

Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated....

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Take It or Leave It

as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1944-07-17

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his...

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Moon Over Her Shoulder

as Susan Rossiter
Released: 1941-10-23

Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a...

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36 Hours to Kill

as Traveler
Released: 1936-07-24

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he...

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Fair Warning

as Counter girl
Released: 1937-03-05

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a...

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The Daring Young Man

as Bridesmaid
Released: 1935-07-17

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl...

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Perry Mason

as Sylvia Cord
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Perry Mason

as Ruth Duncan
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Climax!

as Mrs. Combie
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Ben Casey

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-10-02

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The F.B.I.

as Belinda
First aired: 1965-09-19

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Studio 57

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-21

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Bronco

as Amy Biggs
First aired: 1958-09-23

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The New Breed

as Mrs. Grace
First aired: 1961-10-03

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Science Fiction Theatre

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-04-09

Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that aired in...

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Law of the Plainsman

as Constance Valeri
First aired: 1959-10-01

Law of the Plainsman is a Western television series starring Michael Ansara that aired on the...

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The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-13

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The Aquanauts

as Ann Nincel
First aired: 1960-09-14

The Aquanauts is an American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS in the 1960-1961 season....

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City Detective

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-09-07

Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police...

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Everglades

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-10-09

The Everglades is an American crime-adventure television series that aired in first-run...

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Michael Shayne

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-30

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