Elyse Knox
Also Known As: Elsie M. Kornbrath
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 14, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 16, 2012
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Youth Will Be Served
Overview: A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-22
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Hit the Ice
Overview: After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-02
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The Mummy's Tomb
Overview: A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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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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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Overview: An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-23
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Overview: The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-07
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Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Overview: A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-16
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Arabian Nights
Overview: Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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Hay Foot
Overview: Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gun shy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Footlight Fever
Overview: Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time they try to con a millionairess into funding their latest show by posing as old friends of her lost love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Mister Big
Overview: Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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Linda, Be Good
Overview: A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-07
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Army Wives
Overview: When Jerry Van Dyke, a young debutante, decides to marry Barney, an Army corporal, whom she met at a USO dance, her family objects and consequently, the couple are unable to obtain a marriage license because Jerry doesn't come of age for four days.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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All-American Co-Ed
Overview: Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Miss Polly
Overview: A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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Top Sergeant
Overview: An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-14
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Hi'ya, Sailor
Overview: Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written and which he thinks will be published for a fee of $200. In a taxicab driven by Pat Rogers, they search for the publisher's office but finally realize they have been swindled. Plus, they now owe Pat a large taxi-bill.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Tanks a Million
Overview: Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-12
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A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Overview: Henny Brown, talent scout for the Margaret Ames Film Agency in Hollywood, mistakes Broadway show understudies Judy and Marian, for stars Betty and Eileen, and signs them up for movies. Margaret, furious with Henny for the blunder, fires him---but only temporarily. Another agent, Marty Allen, once married to and still in love with Margaret, signs Betty and Eileen. Henny arrives with Judy and Marian, and the nightclub manager asks Henny to emcee the show. Though he is not sure himself what they can do, Henny introduces the girls and they make a hit in a dramatic sketch. Big-time movie producer R. J. signs them to a film contract. Judy joins the WAVES, Marian the WACS and Marty the Marines and all have two weeks before induction, and that is more than long enough to shoot a Monogram musical-within-a-Monogram musical and have a few days to spare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-07
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Moonlight and Cactus
Overview: The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.
Genres: Western Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-08
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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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There's a Girl in My Heart
Overview: A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-19
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Black Gold
Overview: A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-16
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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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Keep 'Em Slugging
Overview: A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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Forgotten Women
Overview: A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar. Most of what passes for action is a couple of car wrecks, understandable considering the amount of sauce consumed in Harry's bar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-17
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So's Your Uncle
Overview: Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-01
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Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Overview: Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-06
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Joe Palooka, Champ
Overview: After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-26
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Overview: Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Overview: Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-19
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Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Overview: Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-14
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The Girl from Avenue A
Overview: A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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I Was a Burlesque Queen
Overview: 1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Overview: The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out an opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responsible and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him by a gang of gamblers, who made a rich haul betting on Palooka. Joe, Knobby and the police unite to run down the gamblers, but not before Joe also is nearly murdered by the same means...a poisoned mouthpiece. Elyse Knox is along as Joe's sweetheart Anne Howe, although Anne and Joe had long been married in the comic strip.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-20
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Overview: In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-05
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