Annie Ross
Biography: Annabelle McCauley Allan Short (25 July 1930 – 21 July 2020), known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Ross was born in Surrey, England, the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians John "Jack" Short and Mary Dalziel Short (née Allan). Her brother was Scottish entertainer and theatre producer and director Jimmy Logan. She first appeared on stage at age three. At the age of four, she travelled to New York by ship with her family; she later recalled that they "got the cheapest ticket, which was right in the bowels of the ship". Shortly after arriving in the city, she won a token contract with MGM through a children's radio contest run by Paul Whiteman. She subsequently moved with her aunt, Scottish-American singer and actress Ella Logan, to Los Angeles, and her mother, father and brother returned to Scotland. She did not see her parents again until fourteen years later. At the age of seven, she sang "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" in Our Gang Follies of 1938, and played Judy Garland's character's sister in Presenting Lily Mars (1943). Her adulthood film roles included Liza in the film Straight On till Morning (1972), Claire in Alfie Darling (1976), Diana Sharman in Funny Money (1983), Vera Webster in Superman III (1983), Mrs. Hazeltine in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Rose Brooks in Witchery (1988), Loretta Cresswood in Pump Up the Volume (1990), Tess Trainer in Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), and Lydia in Blue Sky (1994). She also appeared as Granny Ruth in the horror films Basket Case 2 (1990) and Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991). She also had a bit part in Robert Altman's The Player in 1992. Ross also starred in Scottish Television's comedy-drama Charles Endell Esquire (1979). She provided the speaking voice for Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man (1973), and Ingrid Thulin's singing voice in Salon Kitty (1976). On stage, she appeared in Cranks (1955; London and New York City), The Threepenny Opera (1972), The Seven Deadly Sins (1973) at the Royal Opera House, Kennedy's Children (1975) at Arts Theatre, London, Side by Side by Sondheim, and in the Joe Papp production of The Pirates of Penzance (1982). Ross died in New York City on 21 July 2020 from emphysema and heart disease, four days before her 90th birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Annie Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: July 26, 1930
Deathday: July 21, 2020
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Musical Movieland
1944-09-09
Musical Movieland
Overview: A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they appear to watch the filming of several productions in progress. Musical numbers from several previous Warner Bros. Technicolor shorts are edited into this short to create the illusion.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-09
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The Player
1992-04-03
The Player
Overview: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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Witchery
1988-12-01
Witchery
Overview: A student and her photographer boyfriend visit an island off of Massachusetts to research a hotel supposedly haunted by a witch.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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Yanks
1979-09-01
Yanks
Overview: During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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Pump Up the Volume
1990-08-22
Pump Up the Volume
Overview: Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school faculty and the authorities.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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Superman III
1983-06-17
Superman III
Overview: Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-17
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Basket Case 2
1990-03-02
Basket Case 2
Overview: Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-02
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Basket Case 3: The Progeny
1992-02-21
Basket Case 3: The Progeny
Overview: Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers no longer seem to trust each other.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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Blue Sky
1994-09-16
Blue Sky
Overview: Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different reasons. He is an outspoken opponent of atmospheric testing, though his superiors hold contrary views and want to squelch his concerns...and his reports. The other problem is his wife, Carly. She is voluptuous and volatile, wreaking havoc in his personal life and stirring up intrigue at each new Army base.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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Straight On Till Morning
1972-07-09
Straight On Till Morning
Overview: Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vicious serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-09
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Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
2007-04-30
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
Overview: This documentary explores the life of jazz singer Anita O'Day. As a child, Anita had a tonsillectomy, during which her uvula was accidentally removed. The surgery prevents her from singing vibrato and holding long notes, but lends to her much-revered percussive style. Anita overcomes her vocal hurdle, as well as many others -- including poverty, heroin addiction and jail time for a drug arrest -- to become one of the most prolific and respected jazz vocalists of the 20th century. Initial release: 30 April 2007
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-30
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Notes for a Film on Jazz
1965-12-31
Notes for a Film on Jazz
Overview: Documentary filmed during the 1965 International Jazz Festival in Bologna, featuring appearances by musicians such as Gato Barbieri, Don Cherry, and Mal Waldron.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously
1969-06-07
One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously
Overview: Marty Feldman, for many years a successful comedy writer before turning to performing, explores humour through the people who create it, comparing their traditions, motivations and anxieties with his own. Among the people Marty talks to are Peter Sellers, Eric Morecambe, Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, Dudley Moore and Barry Took.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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No One But Me
2012-02-21
No One But Me
Overview: No One But Me is a 2012 documentary film about Scottish jazz musician Annie Ross.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-21
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Alfie Darling
1975-07-17
Alfie Darling
Overview: Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie soon realises that Abby, a magazine editor, is just as romantically ruthless as he is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-17
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Cinderella's Feller
1940-06-08
Cinderella's Feller
Overview: The story of Cinderella with a children's cast.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-08
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Funny Money
1982-01-08
Funny Money
Overview: Crime, drama. In Las Vegas, young Barry Nichols inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob and is slashed to death by a limping hood. Later, his girlfriend Cass arrives in London with a stack of stolen credit cards looking for Ben Turtle, a talented pianist whose fingering is famous in the world of credit card crime. Their stormy relationship is hindered by hotel detective Keith Banks and assistant manager Diana Sharman. -- BFI synopsis from http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69480238
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-08
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Salon Kitty
1976-03-02
Salon Kitty
Overview: Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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Short Cuts
1993-09-05
Short Cuts
Overview: Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-05
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Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
2013-05-10
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
Overview: The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s, to fill nightclubs and saloons across the US in the 50s and early 60s as a force in her own right. Looking at the lives and careers of six individual singers (Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone and Annie Ross), the film not only talks to those who knew and worked with these queens of jazz, but also to contemporary singers who sit on the shoulders of these trailblazing talents without having to endure the pain and hardship it took for them to make their highly individual voices heard above the prejudice of mid-century America.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-10
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Our Gang Follies of 1938
1937-12-18
Our Gang Follies of 1938
Overview: Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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Throw Momma from the Train
1987-12-11
Throw Momma from the Train
Overview: Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Presenting Lily Mars
1943-04-29
Presenting Lily Mars
Overview: Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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The Wicker Man
1973-12-06
The Wicker Man
Overview: Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes
2020-09-13
Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes
Overview: Told in Count Basie's own words, this biography sheds light on both the professional and the private life of the world-famous bandleader and pianist who became a jazz icon for his generation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-13
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The Beast Must Die
1974-04-01
The Beast Must Die
Overview: Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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The Ring of Truth
1996-11-06
The Ring of Truth
Overview: Set in the Necropolis graveyard, Glasgow. A comic and magical tale about the meaning of life and a hunt for a missing diamond ring. An ex-B movie starlet and her daughter search for the ring, lost many years ago whilst the mother was making love with a travelling salesman. Their antics are observed by a small boy who is spending the day with his Grandfather, the custodian of the graveyard. As the story unfolds, the day at the graveyard moves from comedy and tragedy to magic, fantasy and resurrection
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-06
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