Sally Forrest
Biography: Sally Forrest (born Katherine Feeney) was an American film, stage and TV actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Forrest began her film career in the 1940s as a chorus dancer in MGM musicals. She made her acting debut in Not Wanted, written and produced by Ida Lupino. The film's controversial subject of unwed motherhood was a raw and unsentimental view of a condition that was rarely explored by Hollywood at that time. Forrest starred in two more Lupino projects, Never Fear and Hard, Fast and Beautiful, as well as other film noir films, including Mystery Street, directed by John Sturges, and the star-studded While the City Sleeps, directed by Fritz Lang. Her musical background and training as a jazz and ballet dancer brought roles in the transitional musicals that rounded off the golden age of MGM; most notable was Excuse My Dust. Most of her films were made under contract to MGM, which prided itself as family entertainment, but RKO, headed by the eccentric and controlling Howard Hughes, presented a very different creative challenge. Son of Sinbad, now a cult classic, was one of his many pet projects where he had a personal interest in re-designing the star's skimpy wardrobe. With each rehearsal, Forrest noticed her harem dance costume slowly disappearing, until it was barely compliant with the Motion Picture Production Code.[citation needed] In 1953, after moving to New York with her husband, writer and producer Milo Frank (who was hired to be head of casting for CBS), her film work transitioned to theatre and TV. She starred on Broadway in The Seven Year Itch, and appeared in major stage productions of Damn Yankees, Bus Stop, As You Like It and No No Nanette. Later she returned to Hollywood and continued working at RKO and Columbia Pictures. Her final film was RKO's While the City Sleeps in 1956, a murder mystery co-starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Vincent Price and her frequent collaborator Ida Lupino.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 28, 1928
Deathday: March 15, 2015
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Son of Sinbad
1955-06-02
Son of Sinbad
Overview: Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-02
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949-03-09
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Overview: The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-09
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Till the Clouds Roll By
1946-12-05
Till the Clouds Roll By
Overview: Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-05
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Scene of the Crime
1949-07-28
Scene of the Crime
Overview: A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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My Blue Heaven
1950-09-15
My Blue Heaven
Overview: Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Are You With It?
1948-03-19
Are You With It?
Overview: Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival. His knowledge of mathematics makes him a natural as an assistant at the wheel of fortune. His fiancée begs him to return to his job but he refuses, so she joins the carnival and becomes a striptease artist. When Milton attempts to drag her off the stage, a brawling mêlée breaks out and the entire troupe is arrested by the local police. The carnival is sold but Milton reveals that the new owner has conspired to defraud the insurance company. The insurance company has to accept the carnival in lieu of the money owed, and they allow Milton and his fiancée, Vivian, to stay with and help run the carnival.
Genres: Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-19
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
1949-04-15
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Overview: A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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The Kissing Bandit
1948-11-14
The Kissing Bandit
Overview: Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's footsteps and become "The Kissing Bandit".
Genres: Western Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-14
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Flame of Youth
1949-09-22
Flame of Youth
Overview: Outside the Wolf Club, wayward high school student Geraldine “Jerry” Briggs waits in the parking lot, while her partner in crime, Al, steals hubcaps from parked cars. When a patron named Steve Miller notices his hubcaps missing, he phones the police, and Jerry is apprehended.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-22
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While the City Sleeps
1956-04-19
While the City Sleeps
Overview: Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-19
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Vengeance Valley
1951-02-14
Vengeance Valley
Overview: A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-14
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Code Two
1953-04-24
Code Two
Overview: Three young men train to become motorcycle cops.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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The Strange Door
1951-06-21
The Strange Door
Overview: The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-21
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Mystery Street
1950-06-23
Mystery Street
Overview: When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Excuse My Dust
1951-06-27
Excuse My Dust
Overview: Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl friend believes in him. When he's halfway successful, another woman tries to win his heart, and his girl-friend thinks he has quit with her. But on a race for those new horse-less vehicles, he gets in trouble and only his former girl friend is able to help him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-27
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Hard, Fast and Beautiful
1951-05-23
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Overview: When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis prodigy who could be Milly’s ticket to money and fame.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-23
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The Strip
1951-08-31
The Strip
Overview: Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-31
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Never Fear
1950-01-04
Never Fear
Overview: A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-04
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Not Wanted
1949-06-24
Not Wanted
Overview: After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-24
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Ride The High Iron
1956-12-01
Ride The High Iron
Overview: A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but released theatrically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Bannerline
1951-10-12
Bannerline
Overview: A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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Dancing in the Dark
1949-12-02
Dancing in the Dark
Overview: Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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Whirlpool
1950-01-13
Whirlpool
Overview: The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-13
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Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000-06-27
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
Overview: A reclusive millionaire who owed his fortune to his father, Howard Hughes staked his fame on many things, including his credits as a producer, director and aviator. But he is perhaps best known for his skills as a Casanova, reportedly romancing Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth and Bette Davis. Actor Billy Zane narrates this documentary, which offers a glimpse of the man behind the glamour.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-27
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Want Ad Wedding
1955-11-02
Want Ad Wedding
Overview: A naval officer on leave in a strange city places a newspaper advertisement requesting guests at his wedding to a young servicewoman, and the staff of a department store jumps into action to help with the arrangements.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-02
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