Gloria Holden
Also Known As: Gloria Anna Holden, Глория Холден, Anje Berens
Biography: From Wikipedia Gloria Anna Holden (September 5, 1903 – March 22, 1991) was an English-born American film actress, best known for her 1936 role as Dracula's Daughter in the film of the same title.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: September 05, 1903
Deathday: March 22, 1991
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Gender: Female
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Dracula's Daughter
Overview: A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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The Life of Emile Zola
Overview: A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-09
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Test Pilot
Overview: Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-16
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The Eddy Duchin Story
Overview: The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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Wife vs. Secretary
Overview: Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Dodge City
Overview: In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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Killer McCoy
Overview: Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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A Gentleman After Dark
Overview: A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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Adventures of Rusty
Overview: Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-06
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Strange Holiday
Overview: An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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This Happy Feeling
Overview: Janet Blake leaves a party when her boss drunkenly makes passes at her and is offered a ride to the subway with Bill Tremaine. When she thinks Bill is making advances too, she flees into a rainstorm and ends up at the house of his neighbor, retired actor Preston Mitchell. Preston hires her as his secretary, and soon both men are pursuing Janet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-18
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Don't Talk
Overview: This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-28
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Overview: A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Many Faces of Dracula
Overview: Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Having Wonderful Crime
Overview: Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-12
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Miss Annie Rooney
Overview: A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Behind the Rising Sun
Overview: A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-01
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Undercover Maisie
Overview: Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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This Thing Called Love
Overview: Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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The Sickle or the Cross
Overview: Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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Miracles for Sale
Overview: A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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A Kiss for Corliss
Overview: After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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Girls' School
Overview: Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-30
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Hit the Hay
Overview: An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-29
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The Hucksters
Overview: A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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Hawaii Calls
Overview: After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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A Child Is Born
Overview: A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-07
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Apache Trail
Overview: The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
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Dream Wife
Overview: Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-19
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The Corsican Brothers
Overview: Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Sister Kenny
Overview: An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-10
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Perilous Waters
Overview: Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-14
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Passage from Hong Kong
Overview: In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-01
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Auntie Mame
Overview: Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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The Man Without a Country
Overview: This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-27
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The Girl of the Limberlost
Overview: Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-11
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Overview: When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-25
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