Known for Acting
Reliable character actress who is perhaps known for her performance as Sweet Sue in Billy Wilder's comedy classic, "Some Like It Hot" (1959).
Born
March 5, 1926
Died
March 22, 1987 (age 61)
Birthplace
Forest Hills, New York, USA
Filmography
46 films, 26 shows


Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994 · 46m · US
Jerry Seinfeld celebrates the lives and careers of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Featured are clips from their movies and TV shows, plus home movies, newsreel footage and their trademark "Who's on First?" routine, shown in its entirety.


City Heat
1984 · 1h 37m · US
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.


Kiss My Grits
1982 · 1h 41m · MX
A man heads for Mexico with a mobster's girlfriend.


Child Bride of Short Creek
1981 · 1h 35m · US
A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.


Buddy Buddy
1981 · 1h 36m · US
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.


Never Con a Killer
1977 · 1h 12m
Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.


Farewell, My Lovely
1975 · 1h 35m · US
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.


Flash and the Firecat
1975 · 1h 24m · US
Gang of robbers use dune buggies for their big heist.


Matt Helm
1975 · 1h 11m · US
In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.


Dead Men Tell No Tales
1971 · 1h 30m · US
A photographer is chased by professional killers who have mistaken him for the person they're really after.


Willard
1971 · 1h 35m · US
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.


One More Train to Rob
1971 · 1h 48m · US
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot.


Something for a Lonely Man
1968 · 2h · US
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.


Live a Little, Love a Little
1968 · 1h 29m · US
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.


Tony Rome
1967 · 1h 50m · US
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.


The Reluctant Astronaut
1967 · 1h 41m · US
Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is as a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a layperson into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.


The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967 · 1h 40m · US
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.


The Wild Angels
1966 · 1h 27m · US
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.


Guerillas in Pink Lace
1964 · 1h 36m
An American gambler masquerades as a Catholic priest during the fall of Manila early in World War II in the Pacific to obtain clearance to fly out on an official military transport. Five American showgirls wrangle a pass with the aid of a helpful U.S. Army colonel to leave on the same plane. Ironically, the transport crashes at sea. The gambler and the girls wind up on a Japanese held island. Initially, they stay out of sight from the enemy, but inevitably things change.


Critic's Choice
1963 · 1h 40m · US
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.


Irma la Douce
1963 · 2h 27m · US
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.


The Apartment
1960 · 2h 6m · US
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.


Some Like It Hot
1959 · 2h 3m · US
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.


Conquest of Space
1955 · 1h 21m · US
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.


Bowery to Bagdad
1955 · 1h 4m · US
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.


A Star Is Born
1954 · 2h 56m · US
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.


Francis Joins the WACS
1954 · 1h 35m · US
Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!


Pride of the Blue Grass
1954 · 1h 11m · US
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The girl finally rehabilitates the horse then enters it in a big race.


From Here to Eternity
1953 · 1h 58m · US
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.


All Ashore
1953 · 1h 20m · US
Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.


Because of You
1952 · 1h 35m · US
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.


Woman on the Run
1950 · 1h 17m · US
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.


Prehistoric Women
1950 · 1h 14m · US
Tigri and her stone age friends, all of which are women, hate all men. However, she and her Amazon tribe see men as a "necessary evil" and capture them for potential husbands. Engor, who is smarter than the rest of the men, is able to escape them. He discovers fire and battle enormous beasts.


Michigan Kid
1947 · 1h 9m · US
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.


The Vigilantes Return
1947 · 1h 3m · US
Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden.


Buck Privates Come Home
1947 · 1h 17m · US
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.


Song of Scheherazade
1947 · 1h 45m · US
In 1865, the cadets of a Russian Naval Academy ship have shore leave in Morocco; among them is (fictionalized) future composer 'Nicky' Rimsky-Korsakov. In search of a piano, Nicky and singing ship's doctor Klin meet a family of once-wealthy Spanish colonists...and their daughter Cara who secretly dances in a cabaret. Romantic complications ensue, but Nicky seems less interested in Cara's favors than in inspirations for his future masterpieces.


I'll Be Yours
1947 · 1h 33m · US
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.


White Tie and Tails
1946 · 1h 21m · US
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.


Cuban Pete
1946 · 1h · US
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but complications arise when the squeaky-voiced, addle-brained sponsor of the program decides she wants to be the vocalist on the program.


Lover Come Back
1946 · 1h 30m · US
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.


Inside Job
1946 · 1h 5m · US
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.


Tangier
1946 · 1h 15m · US
In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.


The Runaround
1946 · 1h 26m · US
Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.


House of Horrors
1946 · 1h 5m · US
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.


Idea Girl
1946 · 1h
Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger.