Frances Robinson
Also Known As: Marion Frances Ladd
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fort Wadsworth, New York, USA
Birthday: April 26, 1916
Deathday: August 16, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Backfire
Overview: When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-26
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Tower of London
Overview: In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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The Lively Set
Overview: A college student drops out to build a race car and falls for his buddy's sister.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-24
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Does Christ Live in Your Home?
Overview: A 1950's family man is out of work and looking for a job discovers that putting God first in your life is what matters most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-05
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Overview: Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-02
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Smilin' Through
Overview: John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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God's Christmas Gift
Overview: A young girl helps her parents as she wonders what God's special gift is at Christmas time.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Red Barry
Overview: A police detective is caught up in a plot to steal two million dollars in bonds.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-18
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Exposed
Overview: A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-05
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Keeper of the Bees
Overview: Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-10
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Personal Secretary
Overview: Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-09
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Service de Luxe
Overview: Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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Letter of Introduction
Overview: An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Overview: Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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Risky Business
Overview: Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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The Family Next Door
Overview: Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-30
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The Nurse from Brooklyn
Overview: A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Tim Tyler's Luck
Overview: A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-27
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Pirates of the Skies
Overview: Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Overview: Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Forbidden Valley
Overview: In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-13
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Riders of Pasco Basin
Overview: Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-04
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So You Won't Talk?
Overview: A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-02
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Suddenly It's Spring
Overview: A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-13
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The Invisible Man Returns
Overview: The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-12
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Society Smugglers
Overview: The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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The Last Warning
Overview: In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-07
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-12
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Desperate Trails
Overview: A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-30
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Little Tough Guys in Society
Overview: A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-01
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I, Jane Doe
Overview: While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-25
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Outlaws of the Panhandle
Overview: Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star is cast as Jim Endicott, bound and determined to put an end to the underhanded activities of gin-mill operator Faro Jack Vaughn (Norman Willis). The villain's strategy is to get the local cowpunchers tanked up on rotgut that they'll prove to be easy pickings for a gang of rustlers-and will be unable to complete work on a railroad spur which will bypass the outlaws' hideaway.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Big Town Czar
Overview: When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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The Spy Ring
Overview: Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Double Alibi
Overview: A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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I Stole a Million
Overview: A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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Glamour for Sale
Overview: A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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A Storm in Summer
Overview: A story of the friendship between an elderly Jewish man and a young African-American boy set during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-06
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The Rage of Paris
Overview: Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-09
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The Jury's Secret
Overview: A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-16
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The Climbers
Overview: The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-03
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One Rainy Afternoon
Overview: Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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The Missing Lady
Overview: While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-17
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Kitten with a Whip
Overview: Straitlaced senatorial hopeful David Stratton has no idea what he's in for when he arrives home from a trip to find sexy teen Jody curled up asleep in his daughter's bed. Soon, delinquent Jody is holding David -- and his plush suburban home -- hostage while she hides out from the cops and throws wild parties with her beatnik pals. David, terrified of scandal, agrees to drive Jody and her friends to Mexico, a decision he regrets when the ride gets out of control.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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Hero for a Day
Overview: When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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Meet Mrs. Swenson
Overview: An overworked housewife struggles to survive in an old house with an inadequate electrical supply and out-of-date appliances.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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