Marjorie Stapp
Also Known As: Margie Stapp, Marjorie Stapp Browne
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marjorie Stapp (September 17, 1921 – June 2, 2014), was an American actress who was mainly in low-budget pictures. Stapp began her film career when she signed a contract with the film studio 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her first screen appearance was in The Kid from Brooklyn, a film starring Danny Kaye. This was followed by another minor appearance in Linda Be Good in 1947. Eventually, she landed a leading role in the Western movie The Blazing Trail alongside Charles Starrett. Throughout the 1950s until the 1990s, she appeared in both films and television, including Cheyenne, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Dragnet, Elmer Gantry, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, 77 Sunset Strip, The Brady Bunch, Quantum Leap and Columbo. Stapp retired in 1991.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 17, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 02, 2014
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The Steel Trap
Overview: Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-12
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The Far Country
Overview: During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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Problem Girls
Overview: A medical student learns about a scheme to drug a girl and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fortune.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-07
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Without Honor
Overview: Jane, a housewife, is confronted during her daily chores by Dennis, her married lover with whom she has had a long affair. Dennis tells Jane that he has to break off their relationship. She threatens suicide, but when she picks up a shish kabob skewer, the two struggle and Dennis is stabbed in the chest and collapses. Jane hides the body in the house. Before she can leave, her brother-in-law arrives and tells her that he knows about the affair and that he has invited her husband, her lover, and his wife to her house that evening so that he can tell them about the affair.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Indestructible Man
Overview: A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-24
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A Gathering of Eagles
Overview: Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-21
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The Monster That Challenged the World
Overview: Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-14
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The Young Captives
Overview: Two high-school teenagers on their way to Mexico to get married cross paths with a homicidal fugitive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Port Sinister
Overview: A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.
Genres: Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-10
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The Blue Gardenia
Overview: Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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Illegal
Overview: A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-09
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The Werewolf
Overview: The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Overview: Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-10
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5 Against the House
Overview: Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-10
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Suicide Battalion
Overview: Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Kronos
Overview: Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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Rimfire
Overview: An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-25
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Battle at Bloody Beach
Overview: This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines. His sole motive is not politics nor bravery, but to find his bride from whom he was separated during the Japanese invasion two years before
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-20
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The Blazing Trail
Overview: Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended his life. When the will is read, it leaves the bulk of the property to Kirk, the gambling son of Mike. This upsets Sam, the hard working son, but not gambler Full House who always beats Kirk at cards. But even the Sheriff is suspicious of the will, but he needs proof and the Durango Kid will find the proof.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-05
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Call from Space
Overview: A movie director and his wanna-be actor/eccentric inventor nephew are filming a low-budget sci-fi movie. Things get interesting when the nephews' bizarro invention starts bringing visitors from other times, including Napoleon, Archimedes, and people from the future and cavemen from the past. Just when they are filming what they are convinced will be one of the greatest movies ever, the same machine sends an alien visitor to their set. Also includes a last-minute cameo from James Coburn, as the infuriated head of the studio.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Gun for a Coward
Overview: A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-30
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The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick
Overview: Kathy, a simple grocery clerk, finds her way into her local high society and the life of a wealthy suitor who thinks she's a stockbroker.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-30
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Sword of Venus
Overview: An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-20
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Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
Overview: A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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A Blueprint for Murder
Overview: Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-24
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