Evelyn Venable
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Evelyn Venable (October 18, 1913 – November 15, 1993) was an American actress. In addition to starring in several films in the 1930s and 1940s, she is notable as the voice and model for the Blue Fairy in the Walt Disney's Pinocchio. For her work in motion pictures, Venable has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street. Description above from the Wikipedia article Evelyn Venable, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 18, 1913
Deathday: November 15, 1993
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Pinocchio
1940-02-23
Pinocchio
Overview: A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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The Little Colonel
1935-02-22
The Little Colonel
Overview: After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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Death Takes a Holiday
1934-03-30
Death Takes a Holiday
Overview: After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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Alice Adams
1935-08-23
Alice Adams
Overview: In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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The Frontiersmen
1938-12-16
The Frontiersmen
Overview: The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934-10-28
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Overview: The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-28
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Female Fugitive
1938-04-15
Female Fugitive
Overview: Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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Racketeers in Exile
1937-03-30
Racketeers in Exile
Overview: In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-30
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Lucky Cisco Kid
1940-06-28
Lucky Cisco Kid
Overview: Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Streamline Express
1935-09-15
Streamline Express
Overview: A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-15
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Harmony Lane
1935-10-22
Harmony Lane
Overview: The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-22
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Cradle Song
1933-11-19
Cradle Song
Overview: In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-19
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Double Door
1934-05-04
Double Door
Overview: A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Happy Go Lucky
1936-12-13
Happy Go Lucky
Overview: A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-13
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David Harum
1934-03-02
David Harum
Overview: Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1938-02-21
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Overview: A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-21
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Vagabond Lady
1935-05-03
Vagabond Lady
Overview: Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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Heritage of the Desert
1939-06-23
Heritage of the Desert
Overview: John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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My Old Kentucky Home
1938-02-09
My Old Kentucky Home
Overview: Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-09
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North of Nome
1936-11-14
North of Nome
Overview: John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-14
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He Hired the Boss
1943-04-02
He Hired the Boss
Overview: A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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Star for a Night
1936-08-28
Star for a Night
Overview: Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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The 10 from Texas
1961-01-01
The 10 from Texas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The County Chairman
1935-01-11
The County Chairman
Overview: Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a Wyoming county, has to decide to do what's right and lose the election, or what's wrong and win it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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The Headleys at Home
1938-11-01
The Headleys at Home
Overview: In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a renowned financier, who is new in town, to their house for dinner. Her husband doesn't know the man, and is too intimidated to ask him; instead, he hires an actor to play him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-01
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Lady in a Jam
1942-06-19
Lady in a Jam
Overview: A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-19
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