Wanda McKay
Also Known As: Dorothy Quackenbush
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, USA
Birthday: June 22, 1915
Deathday: April 11, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Voodoo Man
Overview: A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-21
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The Mad Doctor
Overview: A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Bowery at Midnight
Overview: A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Genres: Crime Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Belle of the Yukon
Overview: Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-27
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Twilight on the Trail
Overview: Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detectives from the east, to investigate the disappearances, without a trace, of several herds of cattle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-29
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Hollywood and Vine
Overview: A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-25
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The Golden Eye
Overview: A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-29
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The Black Raven
Overview: One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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Life with Henry
Overview: Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-23
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Stage Struck
Overview: A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-13
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Raiders of Ghost City
Overview: During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-25
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Leave It to the Irish
Overview: A private eye (James Dunn) investigates the murder of a fur dealer. Monogram.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-26
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Dancing on a Dime
Overview: Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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The Monster Maker
Overview: Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-15
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Fast and Foolish
Overview: Gil Lamb's got a rival for his girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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One Thrilling Night
Overview: A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-05
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Danger! Women at Work
Overview: Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-23
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There Goes Kelly
Overview: Musical turned murder mystery set at a radio station.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-16
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What a Man!
Overview: Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-31
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Sensation Hunters
Overview: A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-12
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The Lady Eve
Overview: It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-25
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Roaring City
Overview: A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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The Deerslayer
Overview: Deerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons steal Princess Wah Tah, the betrothed of his friend Jingo-Good. His friends, the Hutters, are a white family living on an ark in the middle of a lake. The Hurons attack them and Deerslayer enlists the aid of scout Harry March, who is escorting sixty-five brides to the near-by settlement. Deerslayer and Harry are both in love with Judith Hutter, who is secretly in love with Harry. The Hurons succeed in capturing her father and Harry, where-upon Judith's sister Hetty, playing on an Indian superstition never to harm an insane person, feigns madness and makes an escape. Hutter, Judith, Hetty and Princess Wah-Tah return to the ark, where they ate attacked by the waiting Hurons and Hetty is killed. Deerslayer, Harry and the settlement men arrive to time to drive the Hurons away.
Genres: History Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-22
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Smart Guy
Overview: A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-17
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Corregidor
Overview: A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-29
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Law and Order
Overview: Billy the Kid and his pals Jeff Travis and Fuzzy Jones are arrested and brought to Fort Culver, where Billy is amazed to discover that he and the post commander Lieutenant Ted Morrison, are exact doubles.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-21
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Jungle Goddess
Overview: When a plane carrying the daughter of a millionaire crashes in an African jungle, two pilots set out to collect the reward. They discover that she has become the goddess of a primitive tribe. An insurgent witch doctor and fierce wild animals make escape from the jungle difficult for the trio.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-13
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The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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Love Thy Neighbor
Overview: Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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Mystery Sea Raider
Overview: June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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The Way of All Flesh
Overview: Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Goodbye, Weeds
Overview: A sales pitch for an herbicide/fertilizer for the lawn made by Sherwin Williams.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-30
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Rolling Down the Great Divide
Overview: A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range detectives must find a way to capture the gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Texas Justice
Overview: Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-05
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The Pioneers
Overview: A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-10
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The Royal Mounted Patrol
Overview: Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol. When villainous lumberman Frenchy Duvalle refuses to limit his wood-chopping activities, he inadvertently touches off a forest fire. Trapped in the middle of the conflagration, Frenchy's only hope for rescue is mountie Tom Jeffries, presently scouring the countryside in his scout plane. Jeffries' reasons for bringing Frenchy out safely are twofold: he must deliver the renegade lumberjack to the authorities, and he happens to be in love with Frenchy's sister Betty.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-13
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All Women Have Secrets
Overview: When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Because of Eve
Overview: A doctor uses films about venereal disease and the human reproductive system to educate a young married couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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New York Town
Overview: Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Kilroy Was Here
Overview: "Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-19
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Jinx Money
Overview: A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-27
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Overview: A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-04
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Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Overview: Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-12
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Overview: In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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