Known for Costume & Make-Up
Born
August 6, 1912
Died
February 3, 1956 (age 43)
Birthplace
Mississippi, USA
Filmography
58 films


The Prodigal
1955 · 1h 52m · US
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.


Julius Caesar
1953 · 2h 1m · US
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.


Quo Vadis
1951 · 2h 54m · US
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.


Tulsa
1949 · 1h 30m · US
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.


Quiet Please, Murder
1943 · 1h 10m · US
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.


Careful, Soft Shoulders
1942 · 1h 9m · US
In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval official receives a similar offer. He is asked to secure secret Naval plans. Unbeknownst to them, the man they work for is actually a Nazi spy. The two dupes finally figure it out, and the spy kidnaps them. Somehow they escape and break up the spy ring.


Just Off Broadway
1942 · 1h 5m · US
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!


Thru Different Eyes
1942 · 1h 4m · US
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.


The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942 · 1h 5m · US
A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.


The Night Before the Divorce
1942 · 1h 7m · US
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.


On the Sunny Side
1942 · 1h 9m · US
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.


Young America
1942 · 1h 13m · US
Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.


Castle in the Desert
1942 · 1h 2m · US
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...


Over My Dead Body
1942 · 1h 8m · US
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.


Blue, White and Perfect
1942 · 1h 14m · US
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.


The Perfect Snob
1941 · 1h 3m · US
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.


Man at Large
1941 · 1h 10m · US
FBI agent Bob Grayson works in collaboration with Max, a British agent posing as a fugitive German aviator. Meanwhile, fearless girl reporter Dallas Dayle is assigned by her editor to track down the enemy aviator and get an exclusive story. When she catches up with Grayson and Max, Dallas is under the impression that Grayson is a rival reporter and Max is the genuine fugitive.


Last of the Duanes
1941 · 57m · US
Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.


A Very Young Lady
1941 · 1h 20m · US
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.


Ride on Vaquero
1941 · 1h 4m · US
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.


Sleepers West
1941 · 1h 14m · US
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.


Ride, Kelly, Ride
1941 · 59m · US
A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.


Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940 · 1h 17m · US
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.


Charter Pilot
1940 · 1h 10m · US
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.


Pier 13
1940 · 1h 4m · US
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.


Sailor's Lady
1940 · 1h 7m · US
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.


Girl in 313
1940 · 56m · US
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?


Viva Cisco Kid
1940 · 1h 5m · US
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.


The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939 · 1h 14m · US
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.


City in Darkness
1939 · 1h 15m · US
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..


Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 · 1h 37m · US
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.


Frontier Marshal
1939 · 1h 11m · US
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.


Inside Story
1939 · 1h · US
A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..


The Arizona Wildcat
1939 · 1h 9m · US
In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.


Mysterious Mr. Moto
1938 · 1h 2m · US
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.


Keep Smiling
1938 · 1h 15m · US
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.


Passport Husband
1938 · 1h 12m · US
At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is arrested. After Tiger is deported, Duke Selton, of Tiger's gang, pays a visit to Conchita and tells her he believes that Blackie Bennet, the leader of a rival gang, is responsible for tipping off the police about Tiger's citizenship.


Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
1938 · 1h 3m · US
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.


Walking Down Broadway
1938 · 1h 15m · US
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.


International Settlement
1938 · 1h 15m · US
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).


Change of Heart
1938 · 59m · US
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.


Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937 · 1h 7m · US
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.


Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937 · 1h 11m · US
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.


Borrowing Trouble
1937 · 59m · US
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.


Lancer Spy
1937 · 1h 18m · US
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.


Hot Water
1937 · 55m · US
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.


Dangerously Yours
1937 · 1h 2m · US
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.


One Mile from Heaven
1937 · 1h 7m · US
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.


Wild and Woolly
1937 · 1h 5m · US
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!


Angel's Holiday
1937 · 1h 16m · US
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.


Charlie Chan at the Olympics
1937 · 1h 11m · US
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!


The Great Hospital Mystery
1937 · 58m · US
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.


Laughing at Trouble
1936 · 1h 7m · US
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.


Charlie Chan at the Opera
1936 · 1h 8m · US
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.


Back to Nature
1936 · 57m · US
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.