Natalie Wood

Born: 1938-07-20

Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles. Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a role in John Ford's The Searchers (1956). Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962) and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued with films such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). During the 1970s, Wood began a hiatus from film and had two daughters: one with her second husband Richard Gregson, and one with Robert Wagner, her first husband whom she married again after divorcing Gregson. She acted in only two feature films throughout the decade, but she appeared slightly more often in television productions, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Wood's films represented a "coming of age" for her and for Hollywood films in general. Critics have suggested that her cinematic career represents a portrait of modern American womanhood in transition, as she was one of the few to take both child roles and those of middle-aged characters. Wood died off the coast of Santa Catalina Island on November 29, 1981, at age 43, during a holiday break from the production of her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (1983) with Christopher Walken. The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements, prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under the instruction of the coroner's office, to list her cause of death as "drowning and other undetermined factors" in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Natalie Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Miracle on 34th Street

as Susan Walker
Released: 1947-06-04

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow...

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The Searchers

as Debbie Edwards
Released: 1956-05-16

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his...

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The Great Race

as Maggie Dubois
Released: 1965-07-01

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century...

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Rebel Without a Cause

as Judy
Released: 1955-10-27

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate,...

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West Side Story

as Maria
Released: 1961-12-13

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of...

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Splendor in the Grass

as Wilma “Deanie” Loomis
Released: 1961-10-10

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's...

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Meteor

as Tatiana Donskaya
Released: 1979-10-19

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading...

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The Candidate

as Natalie Wood
Released: 1972-06-29

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he...

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Brainstorm

as Karen Brace
Released: 1983-09-30

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back...

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The Celluloid Closet

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1996-01-30

What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood...

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Sex and the Single Girl

as Helen Gurley Brown
Released: 1964-12-25

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in...

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Gypsy

as Louise Hovick/Gypsy Rose Lee
Released: 1962-11-01

Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June...

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Anna Muir as a Child
Released: 1947-05-25

A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its...

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This Property Is Condemned

as Alva Starr
Released: 1966-08-03

Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway -...

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Love with the Proper Stranger

as Angie Rossini
Released: 1963-12-25

Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family,...

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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

as Carol Sanders
Released: 1969-09-17

After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders...

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The Burning Hills

as Maria-Christina Colton
Released: 1956-09-01

When Trace Jordan's brother is murdered by members of the land-grabbing Sutton family, he vows...

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The Jackpot

as Phyllis Lawrence
Released: 1950-11-01

Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in...

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Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Judy in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)
Released: 2004-07-28

From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop...

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Inside Daisy Clover

as Daisy Clover
Released: 1965-12-22

A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

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The Star

as Gretchen
Released: 1952-12-11

Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business....

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The Last Married Couple in America

as Mari Thompson
Released: 1980-04-03

Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends...

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The Girl He Left Behind

as Susan Daniels
Released: 1956-10-26

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the...

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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-05-16

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

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Bombers B-52

as Lois Brennan
Released: 1957-11-22

Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even...

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Tab Hunter Confidential

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2015-03-15

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout...

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A Cry in the Night

as Elizabeth
Released: 1956-08-17

A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.

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Paul Newman: The Restless

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-06-11

Multi-talented, Paul Newman is one of the greatest American actors of all time. With his...

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Tomorrow Is Forever

as Margaret Ludwig
Released: 1946-02-20

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war....

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Howard

as Maria (archive footage)
Released: 2018-04-22

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and...

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Marjorie Morningstar

as Marjorie Morgenstern
Released: 1958-04-24

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for...

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The James Dean Story

as Self
Released: 1957-08-13

Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and...

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Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-01-27

Explore the personal and professional triumphs and challenges of actor Natalie Wood, which have...

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Penelope

as Penelope
Released: 1966-11-10

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to...

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Never a Dull Moment

as Nan Hayward
Released: 1950-08-19

Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a...

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Hart to Hart

as Movie Star
Released: 1979-08-25

In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has...

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The Moon Is Down

as Carrie (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-14

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on...

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Father Was a Fullback

as Ellen Cooper
Released: 1949-09-30

Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of...

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The Blue Veil

as Stephanie Rawlins
Released: 1951-10-26

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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Trumbull Land

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-10-15

Everyone has seen a Trumbull sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", Ridley...

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No Sad Songs for Me

as Polly Scott
Released: 1950-04-27

Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She...

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All the Fine Young Cannibals

as Sarah "Salome" Davis
Released: 1960-09-15

An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the...

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Willie and Phil

as Herself
Released: 1980-08-15

Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil —...

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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

as (archive footage)
Released: 1990-01-01

Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a...

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Driftwood

as Jenny Hollingsworth
Released: 1947-09-15

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s...

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The Green Promise

as Susan Matthews
Released: 1949-03-22

A stubborn farmer is raising his children alone. When his oldest daughter gets a suitor, the...

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The Silver Chalice

as Helena as a Girl
Released: 1954-12-20

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim...

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Happy Land

as Little Girl Dropping Ice Cream Cone (uncredited)
Released: 1943-11-10

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist...

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Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

as Eufraznee 'Bean' McGill
Released: 1948-03-10

Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his...

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One Desire

as Seely Dowder
Released: 1955-07-20

The "one desire" of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their...

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Peeper

as Ellen Prendergast
Released: 1975-12-03

A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to...

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Hollywood’s Children

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1982-02-24

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

as Margaret
Released: 1976-12-06

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his...

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The Memory of Eva Ryker

as Eva Ryker / Claire Ryker
Released: 1980-05-05

A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship...

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Kings Go Forth

as Monique Blair
Released: 1958-06-28

When Harris applies for the position of a radioman in Loggins' army unit, he is hired...

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The Cracker Factory

as Cassie Barrett
Released: 1979-03-16

Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and...

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Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's

as (archive footage)
Released: 2009-05-19

Documentary looking at the history of Hollywood musicals in the 1960s. This decade saw...

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The Affair

as Courtney Patterson
Released: 1973-11-20

A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.

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Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

as Herself (uncredited)
Released: 2005-01-01

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents is a documentary chronicling the production of the film.

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Chicken Every Sunday

as Ruth Hefferen
Released: 1949-01-18

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

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Just for You

as Barbara Blake
Released: 1952-09-27

Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his...

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Hollywood and the Stars

as Self
Released: 1964-05-04

NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in...

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The Bride Wore Boots

as Carol Warren
Released: 1946-06-05

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

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Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

as uncredited
Released: 1982-08-16

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Cash McCall

as Lory Austen
Released: 1960-01-20

Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them...

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Our Very Own

as Penny Macaulay
Released: 1950-07-27

During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is...

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The Rose Bowl Story

as Sally Burke
Released: 1952-08-24

The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California...

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I'm a Stranger Here Myself

as Self
Released: 1975-01-17

A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while he is working as a film professor at a...

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James Dean: The First American Teenager

as Self
Released: 1975-09-30

Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic...

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Dear Brat

as Pauline Baxter
Released: 1951-05-30

Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation...

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Brunes et Blondes

as Self
Released: 2010-10-06

Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with...

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James Dean Remembered

as Self
Released: 1974-01-01

Peter Lawford hosts this documentary taking a look at the life and films of James Dean.

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Rediscovering a Rebel

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1996-01-01

A documentary short on the making of Rebel Without a Cause.

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New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

as Self
Released: 1956-10-09

Star-studded charity New York City premiere of the film Giant.

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The Wild Bunch

as Louise
Released: 1955-02-17

On the way home after their honeymoon, a bride confesses two things to her groom: She's wealthy...

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Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2009-10-08

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Return of the Dead

as Renee Marchand
Released: 1954-09-09

A teenage girl is charged with the attempted murder of a gangland figure. Her mother has also...

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Too Old for Dolls

as Polly Ramsay
Released: 1955-02-24

Parents are concerned that their teen-aged daughter doesn't have a date for her school's formal...

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Playmates

as Monica
Released: 1954-08-29

Monica is a lonely young girl who is schooled at home by her Uncle Stephen and his housekeeper....

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Feathertop

as Polly Gookin
Released: 1955-12-04

A scarecrow is brought to life by a witch and made to pose as a nobleman.

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The Deadly Riddle

as Lady Marian
Released: 1956-05-22

Episode aired May 22, 1956

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Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool

as Lucy
Released: 1954-11-14

A man tells the story of his coming to adulthood when he left home at age 18 and learned the...

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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Hart to Hart

as Movie Star
First aired: 1979-09-22

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife,...

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The Jack Benny Program

as Natalie Wood
First aired: 1950-10-28

Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular...

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Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee/Presenter
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

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Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

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The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1968-06-06

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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Switch

as Cruise Ship Passenger (uncredited)
First aired: 1975-09-09

Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert...

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Intimate Portrait

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1993-11-14

Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network...

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Studio One

as Jen Potter
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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The Bob Hope Show

as Self
First aired: 1950-04-09

The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Studio 57

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-21

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...

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Laurence Olivier Presents

as Margaret
First aired: 1976-12-05

Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran...

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Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2016-02-04

Hosts Ryan & Shane discuss mysteries surrounding notorious unsolved crimes.

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The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self
First aired: 1973-04-02

In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...

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From Here to Eternity

as Karen Holmes
First aired: 1979-02-14

The lives of the men and families of G Company, 24th Infantry Division, United States Army, on...

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Too Young to Die

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2012-07-14

Those who knew them best describe the sensational lives and premature deaths of iconic actors...

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General Electric Theater

as Lucy
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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General Electric Theater

as Polly Gookin
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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Mayor of the Town

as Mayor's Niece
First aired: 1954-01-01

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