Suzanne Kaaren
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Suzanne Kaaren (March 21, 1912 – August 27, 2004) was an American B-movie actress and dancer who starred in stock film genres of the 1930s and 1940s: horror films, westerns, comedies and romances. Kaaren left for Hollywood in October 1933. Her starting salary was $150 per week, and was eventually cast opposite Tim McCoy in Ridin' Gents, a Monogram Pictures production. She was then signed by Republic Pictures to play a character in From Rags To Riches. Ridin' Gents was filmed without either McCoy or Kaaren. She joined a troupe assembled by producer Walter Wanger, which also included Gloria Youngblood. The theatrical company was known as Trade Winds. The comedy When's Your Birthday? (1937) showcased the zany Joe E. Brown, with Kaaren among the supporting players in an RKO Radio Pictures movie about an astrologer. In October 1941, Kaaren was added to the cast of I Married an Angel. She portrayed a maid named Simone, and was uncredited. In October 1943, Pete Smith assigned Kaaren and Harry Barris the leading roles in an MGM motion picture which was to be called Practical Joker. The film was never made. Kaaren figured prominently in several Three Stooges comedy short films. They are Disorder in the Court, Yes, We Have No Bonanza, and What's the Matador?. Miracles for Sale (1939) was based on the novel Death From A Tophat by Clayton Rawson. Kaaren plays a woman who is separated into halves and then joined together again suspensefully. The murder mystery has Robert Young and Florence Rice in prominent roles. She starred opposite Bela Lugosi in The Devil Bat. The cult film of the horror film genre is a Poverty Row production released by Producers Releasing Corporation. In the movie, Lugosi breeds giant bats to attack people. Her final appearance on film is uncredited role as the Duchess of Park Avenue (Manhattan) in 1984's The Cotton Club.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 21, 1912
Deathday: August 27, 2004
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Disorder in the Court
1936-05-30
Disorder in the Court
Overview: The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-30
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The Devil Bat
1940-12-13
The Devil Bat
Overview: Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Angel
1937-10-29
Angel
Overview: While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Yes, We Have No Bonanza
1939-05-19
Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Overview: Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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Close Relations
1933-09-30
Close Relations
Overview: Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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Pride of the Navy
1939-01-23
Pride of the Navy
Overview: A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-23
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What's the Matador?
1942-04-23
What's the Matador?
Overview: The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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Rhythm in the Clouds
1937-06-21
Rhythm in the Clouds
Overview: Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-21
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White Legion
1936-10-24
White Legion
Overview: In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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Here's Flash Casey
1938-01-07
Here's Flash Casey
Overview: After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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When's Your Birthday?
1937-02-19
When's Your Birthday?
Overview: Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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The Wildcatter
1937-06-06
The Wildcatter
Overview: Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky wins enough money in roulette to lease a parcel of land, and he and his friend "Smiley" begin drilling. Julia Frayne, whom Lucky met while gambling, turns out to be the daughter of oil tycoon Tom Frayne, who is eager to buy out the leases of the growing number of independent drillers, called "wildcatters," in order to hold a monopoly on the local oil fields.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-06
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Phantom Ranger
1938-05-27
Phantom Ranger
Overview: A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Women Must Dress
1935-02-01
Women Must Dress
Overview: A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Romance of Louisiana
1937-07-08
Romance of Louisiana
Overview: A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-08
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Trade Winds
1938-12-28
Trade Winds
Overview: After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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Bottoms Up
1934-04-12
Bottoms Up
Overview: Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-12
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Strangers All
1935-04-01
Strangers All
Overview: Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-01
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Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27
Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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The Women
1939-09-01
The Women
Overview: A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Miracles for Sale
1939-08-10
Miracles for Sale
Overview: A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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Undercover Man
1936-09-23
Undercover Man
Overview: An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in this standard B-Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures Corp.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-23
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Rags to Riches
1941-07-31
Rags to Riches
Overview: A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-31
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A Million to One
1936-12-31
A Million to One
Overview: The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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City of Chance
1940-01-13
City of Chance
Overview: Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
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Roar of the Press
1941-04-17
Roar of the Press
Overview: While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Sleepers East
1934-01-01
Sleepers East
Overview: No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Blondes at Work
1938-02-05
Blondes at Work
Overview: When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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The Cotton Club
1984-12-14
The Cotton Club
Overview: Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Wild Gold
1934-06-08
Wild Gold
Overview: A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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The Ghost Comes Home
1940-03-08
The Ghost Comes Home
Overview: Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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No Place like Rome
1936-10-26
No Place like Rome
Overview: This ancient history musical comedy predates A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by a few decades. Frank Albertson plays a happy Roman bachelor who falls for a lovely slave girl, in a silly tale that uses stock footage from MGM's silent Ben Hur.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-26
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Wives Never Know
1936-09-18
Wives Never Know
Overview: Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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