Eilene Janssen
Biography: Eilene Janssen was born in Los Angeles, California on May 25, 1938, to Henry Janssen and Mary Ellen Thompson. She began her film career as a child actress in the early 1940s. With her father being a longtime worker for Universal Studios, Eilene Janssen made her first screen appearance in the 1940 film Sandy Gets Her Man. She continued to have bit parts in several movies such as Two Girls and a Sailor and It Happened Tomorrow. In 1944, she was awarded the title "Little Miss America". As she grew older, she gained more prominent roles such as Elise in Song of Love and Peggy in The Boy with Green Hair. As a young adult she had a good role as the female lead in the 1957 Western film Escape from Red Rock. Apart from films, Eilene Janssen also acted in television series like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Mister Ed, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Tales of Wells Fargo, Make Room for Daddy, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Beverly Hillbillies and Perry Mason. She retired from acting in 1968. As of 2004, she is residing in Pasadena, California. Janssen married Harry Ronald Rothschild on November 29, 1957. They had two children together before they divorced in 1962. She then married Thomas Alexander Orchard, in 1963. They had one child together before their 1966 divorce. Janssen married George Ellis Moore in 1968. They had two children together before he died in 2000. CLR
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Birthday: May 25, 1938
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Beginning of the End
1957-06-28
Beginning of the End
Overview: An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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The Green Years
1946-07-04
The Green Years
Overview: An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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About Mrs. Leslie
1954-08-03
About Mrs. Leslie
Overview: A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-03
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Wild Horse Ambush
1952-04-15
Wild Horse Ambush
Overview: A man has kidnaped an engraver and has him forging Mexican bills. He captures wild horses supposedly to sell for hides but uses them to transport the bills across the border. Police captain Juan Reyes (Richard Avonde) is posing as a bandit to uncover the counterfeiters smuggling fake pesos into Mexico, and is assisted by feisty youngsters Red (Michael Chapin) and Judy (Eilene Janssen), who are trying to protect the wild horses being used by the gang. The kids suspect that rancher Big John Harkins (Roy Barcroft) is the leader of the gang and that he is forcing Mexican artist Espinosa (Julian Rivero) to help him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-15
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Curley
1947-08-23
Curley
Overview: The students of Lakeview Elementary devise comedic ways to torment their new teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-23
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The Dakota Kid
1951-07-01
The Dakota Kid
Overview: Dakota Kid is a young outlaw who joins a gang headed by Ace Crandall. Crandall's aim is to unseat Sheriff Tom White and then use his power to enrich himself at the community's expense. Dakota impersonates a long-lost nephew of the sheriff, and is made a marshal. Through his association with the sheriff's grandson, Red White and his friend Judy, plus falling in love with Mary Lewis, the Kid gradually reforms.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-01
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It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
It Happened Tomorrow
Overview: A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-31
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Escape from Red Rock
1957-12-01
Escape from Red Rock
Overview: Pursued by a posse, a rancher and a young woman, partners in crime, are chased into Indian country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948-04-09
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Overview: A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-09
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Arizona Manhunt
1951-09-14
Arizona Manhunt
Overview: Arizona Manhunt was the second entry in Republic's "Rough Ridin' Kids" series. Michael Chapin returns as Red, the precocious grandson of Sheriff White (James Bell), while Eilene Janssen likewise reappears as Red's best friend Judy. Once again, the two kids get involved with grown-up western desperadoes, in this case the outlaw gang formerly controlled by Judy's foster father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-14
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Sally and Saint Anne
1952-07-01
Sally and Saint Anne
Overview: An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-01
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Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
1951-05-01
Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-01
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It's Always Sunday
It's Always Sunday
Overview: A pair of drifters try to hit up a minister as a soft touch for a handout, but they inadvertently end up learning a valuable lesson about trust.
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Original Language: en
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The Boy with Green Hair
1948-11-26
The Boy with Green Hair
Overview: Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-26
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On Our Merry Way
1948-02-03
On Our Merry Way
Overview: Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-03
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Song of Love
1947-10-09
Song of Love
Overview: Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-09
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Borrowed Trouble
1948-07-23
Borrowed Trouble
Overview: Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the conflict between school teacher Miss Abott and next door saloon owner Mawson. When Miss Abott disappears, Hoppy gets a clue to her location and rescues her from Mawson's cabin. It looks like Mawson is the man he wants, but Hoppy finds an item that indicates otherwise.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-23
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The Search for Bridey Murphy
1956-10-01
The Search for Bridey Murphy
Overview: After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Black Zoo
1963-05-15
Black Zoo
Overview: Michael Conrad, owner of a group of strange animals, trains his beasts to obey him, unleashing them on anyone who stands in his way. His wife and mute assistant begin to suspect that they too are becoming part of the black zoo.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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Panic in the City
1968-10-01
Panic in the City
Overview: An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-01
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Till We Meet Again
1944-08-30
Till We Meet Again
Overview: An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-30
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A Midsummer Daydream
1955-10-19
A Midsummer Daydream
Overview: Tonight we are pleased to present the noted director John Brahm. Mr. Brahm has chosen for this evening a bright and amusing story by the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist William Saroyan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-19
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