Joan Valerie
Also Known As: Helen Valkis, Helen Hughes, Helen Vlahakis
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday: July 15, 1911
Deathday: January 30, 1983
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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Three Daring Daughters
Overview: Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-12
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Murder Over New York
Overview: When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Overview: A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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Girl in 313
Overview: A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Westward the Women
Overview: There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-16
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Day-time Wife
Overview: When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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Confession
Overview: Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-19
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Just Off Broadway
Overview: Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-28
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Topa Topa
Overview: Tom Turner, a naturalist, comes to the "Topa Topa" district (named for the mountain), and falls in love with widow Margaret Weston...
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-17
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Overview: Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-19
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Alcatraz Island
Overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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Pier 13
Overview: A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-08
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The Old Barn Dance
Overview: Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-29
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Tail Spin
Overview: Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-19
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The Great Profile
Overview: An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Ready, Willing and Able
Overview: Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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It's Love I'm After
Overview: An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Kentucky
Overview: Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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The Cherokee Strip
Overview: A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
Genres: Action Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-15
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Overview: A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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Submarine Patrol
Overview: A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Blazing Sixes
Overview: Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-12
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A Trip to Paris
Overview: The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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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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Road Demon
Overview: At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Talent Scout
Overview: A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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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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Government Girl
Overview: An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-05
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Lillian Russell
Overview: Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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Missing Witnesses
Overview: A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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Free, Blonde and 21
Overview: Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-28
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Young as You Feel
Overview: Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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A Life of Her Own
Overview: A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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The Go-Getter
Overview: A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Overview: A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Around the World
Overview: Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-27
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Safety in Numbers
Overview: The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-30
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Rio Rita
Overview: Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-11
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Sergeant Murphy
Overview: An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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