Dona Drake
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 15, 1914
Deathday: June 20, 1989
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Known For
Kansas City Confidential
1952-11-11
Kansas City Confidential
Overview: An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-11
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Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950-05-19
Fortunes of Captain Blood
Overview: When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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Beyond the Forest
1949-10-21
Beyond the Forest
Overview: Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-21
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Sweet Shoe
1938-01-04
Sweet Shoe
Overview: Dona Drake (as Rita Rio) and her all-girl band work in a ritzy setting, and perform some hot melodies, with Rita singing and dancing. Several feature acts are introduced; the first---The Four Norsemen---is a singing male quartet. Then come the Four Specs, a colored aggregation who do some amazing stepping. The finales has Rita in combination with Anita Jacobi, an acrobatic tap dancer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-04
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Louisiana Purchase
1941-12-31
Louisiana Purchase
Overview: A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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So This Is New York
1948-06-01
So This Is New York
Overview: A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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Star Spangled Rhythm
1942-03-05
Star Spangled Rhythm
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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The Bandits of Corsica
1953-02-27
The Bandits of Corsica
Overview: Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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The Girl from Jones Beach
1949-07-16
The Girl from Jones Beach
Overview: Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl". What the world doesn't know is that his pin-up creation is really a composite of parts of the anatomy of 12 different models. In an effort to find one girl who possesses all the proper physical attributes, Randolph and PR man Chuck Donovan pursue Ruth Wilson, a beauteous schoolteacher who prefers to be admired for her brain rather than her curves. Ruth changes her tune, however, when a published photo of her in a swimsuit causes her to be fired by the uptight schoolboard. She sues for reinstatement and in the process learns that swimsuits and sex appeal do have a place in her world, after all. Written by Dan Navarro
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-16
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949-05-27
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Overview: When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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Princess of the Nile
1954-07-01
Princess of the Nile
Overview: Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagdad. She practices her intrigues both at the court and, disguised as a dancing girl, in the market place.
Genres: Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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Aloma of the South Seas
1941-08-27
Aloma of the South Seas
Overview: A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-27
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Feed the Kitty
1941-01-01
Feed the Kitty
Overview: A Soundie with Dona Drake.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Pan-Americonga
1941-02-16
Pan-Americonga
Overview: A Soundie featuring Rita Rio with Allan Baldwin and Theodore.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-16
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Down Laredo Way
1953-08-05
Down Laredo Way
Overview: Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-05
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Valentino
1951-03-08
Valentino
Overview: Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-08
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Hot Rhythm
1944-04-22
Hot Rhythm
Overview: Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-22
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Strike Me Pink
1936-01-24
Strike Me Pink
Overview: Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-24
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Without Reservations
1946-05-13
Without Reservations
Overview: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Let's Face It
1943-08-04
Let's Face It
Overview: A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-04
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I Look at You
1941-02-20
I Look at You
Overview: Alan Ladd was discovered by Sue Carol for his incredible voice in radio. And then she married him. In I Look At You, he is sweet and graceful. And at the very beginning of his career in film. He sings and leads Rita Rio's all-girl band while she dances around him.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
1945-09-30
Hollywood Victory Caravan
Overview: A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-30
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Son of Belle Starr
1953-06-26
Son of Belle Starr
Overview: The son of the notorious female bandit Belle Starr wants to live an honest life, but finds himself getting drawn into his mother's old profession.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-26
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Rita Rio and Her Orchestra
1939-07-01
Rita Rio and Her Orchestra
Overview: Her doctor thinks Rita Rio is crazy for loving music too much, but she proves him wrong by becoming a successful bandleader.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-01
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Sticks and Stones
1943-01-25
Sticks and Stones
Overview: Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones".
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-25
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Road to Morocco
1942-11-10
Road to Morocco
Overview: Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-10
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Another Part of the Forest
1948-05-18
Another Part of the Forest
Overview: This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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Dangerous Millions
1946-11-27
Dangerous Millions
Overview: Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-27
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Salute for Three
1943-03-17
Salute for Three
Overview: Press agent Jimmy Gates gets an idea while watching a New York parade, for a returned war hero Sergeant Buzz McAllister, with his chief client, singer Judy Ames; Dona Drake, leader of an all-girl orchestra; his photographer Foggy, and his secretary Myrt. Jimmy, thinking Judy needs publicity in order to get a singing job on a radio program, thinks that a romance between her and the war hero would be just the ticket.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-17
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