Virginia Hunter
Biography: Virginia Hunter grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and studied dancing and ballet from age 8. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1940 and Virginia was under contract to MGM from 1940-1945. She then moved over to Columbia Pictures, working there until the late 1940s. She had started modeling in the late 1940s and was offered a job by the I. Magnin department-store chain in Pasadena. Among her credits are four "Durango Kid" westerns with 'Charles Starrett' at Columbia Pictures and a number of shorts with 'The Three Stooges' , also at Columbia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 17, 1920
Deathday: March 23, 2012
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He Walked by Night
1949-02-06
He Walked by Night
Overview: Roy Morgan aka Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart) is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-06
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Sing a Song of Six Pants
1947-10-30
Sing a Song of Six Pants
Overview: The three stooges pursue a notorious burglar in order to pay past due notes to the Skin & Flint company and save their tailor shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-30
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Fiddlers Three
1948-05-06
Fiddlers Three
Overview: The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-06
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I'm a Monkey's Uncle
1948-10-07
I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Overview: Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-07
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Stone Age Romeos
1955-06-02
Stone Age Romeos
Overview: The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-02
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The Reckless Moment
1949-12-09
The Reckless Moment
Overview: After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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The Mating of Millie
1948-03-08
The Mating of Millie
Overview: Self-sufficient in life and successful in business, prim and proper Millie McGonigle wants just one more thing, a child. When she asks to adopt orphan Tommy Bassett, but learns that she will first have to have a husband, Millie turns to a recently fired bus driver, Doug Andrews. Though he has no interest in marriage, Doug offers to help Millie find a husband by transforming her into a beautiful and exciting woman, one who catches the eye of two eligible bachelors, including the orphanage's president.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-08
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Caught
1949-02-17
Caught
Overview: Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-17
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Smoky River Serenade
1947-08-20
Smoky River Serenade
Overview: The ramshackle Smoky River Ranch is all that stands in the way of a developer and a big real-estate deal, but the old man who owns the ranch won't sell it, because he has to take care of some down-and-out theater people to honor his dead son's memory. Frustrated, the developer sends in a pretty young girl to try to trick the old man into selling the ranch.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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Phantom Valley
1948-02-19
Phantom Valley
Overview: The Durango Kid, along with assistance from sidekick Smiley Burnett, investigates a pair of murders that threaten to fuel a range war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-19
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The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946-02-14
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Overview: Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-14
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The Stranger From Ponca City
1947-07-03
The Stranger From Ponca City
Overview: A saddle-weary Steve Larkin, also the Duranko Kid, rides into Red Mound, a town filled with cattle rustlers. Cafe owner Smiley, befriends Steve and fills him in on the activities. Steve angers the rustler's leader, Flip Dugan when he purchases the old Atkins ranch which is supposedly haunted. Flip and his henchmen try to prevent the recording of the deed, but the Durango Kid and Deputy Marshal Tug Carter win the gun battle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-03
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Riders of the Lone Star
1947-08-14
Riders of the Lone Star
Overview: An outlaw gang is trying to stop the reopening of a mine as they look for the money left there by the famous outlaw Dusty Morton. After a ten year absence, Morton has apparently reappeared and Steve arrives looking for him. He finds his son who also wonders if his father is still alive. With the gang soon after him, the Durango Kid goes into action and Steve tries to learn who the real Dusty Morgan is.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-14
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Last Days of Boot Hill
1947-11-20
Last Days of Boot Hill
Overview: Treasury Department Steve Waring, and also, unknown to others, the Durango Kid, comes to Sunset Pass in search of $1000,000 in gold coins, stolen from the government by the late Forrest Brent. He is aided by Smiley Burnette, the local deputy sheriff. Later, Paula Thorpe, Brent's daughter from his first marriage, arrives with her lawyer sweetheart Frank Raeburn, with intentions of proving her father's estate belongs to her and not to Mrs. Brent, his wife of record when he died. The widow Brent has no intentions of giving up one single cent.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-20
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It Had to Be You
1947-12-07
It Had to Be You
Overview: A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
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The Desert Hawk
1950-08-05
The Desert Hawk
Overview: A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
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The File on Thelma Jordon
1949-11-04
The File on Thelma Jordon
Overview: Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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Keep Your Powder Dry
1945-04-01
Keep Your Powder Dry
Overview: A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-01
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