Marjorie Lord
Also Known As: Marjorie Wollenberg
Biography: Marjorie Lord (née Wollenberg) was an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" O'Hara Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on The Danny Thomas Show and later Make Room for Granddaddy. In 1935, at the age of 16, Lord made her Broadway debut in The Old Maid with Judith Anderson. Her other Broadway appearances came in Signature, Little Brown Jug, and The Girl in the Freudian Slip. Lord was signed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1935. While appearing in Springtime for Henry with Edward Everett Horton, director Henry Koster approached her and signed her to a contract with Universal Studios. She appeared in six feature films and a film serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack for Universal. Her film work includes a number of wartime pictures, including the 1943 mystery Sherlock Holmes in Washington, starring Basil Rathbone in the title role. She also appeared in the Western films Masked Raiders, Mexican Manhunt, and Down Laredo Way. In 1966, she played Mrs. Martha Meade, the wife of Bob Hope's character, in the screwball comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday: July 26, 1918
Deathday: November 28, 2015
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Gender: Female
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The Pirate
Overview: An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fortunes and must deal with a fanatical terrorist group led by his daughter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-21
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Overview: In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-24
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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
Overview: Tom Meade mistakenly dials the gorgeous European film star Didi at her Oregon hotel. Didi, who has escaped Hollywood to avoid being typecast as a bombshell, takes up Meade's offer to hide away at his backwoods cabin. Meade, with the help of his housekeeper, goes to absurd lengths to help the actress evade discovery by both the public and his suspicious wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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New Orleans
Overview: A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-18
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About Face
Overview: Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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The Lost Volcano
Overview: Little David Gordon lives in the jungle with his parents Ruth and Fred, along with their servant Nona. David likes living there while his father captures wild animals; he's made friends with Bomba the jungle boy, who has shown him a great deal about life in the jungle. One day two adventurers come looking for ancient treasure in the shadow of a live volcano.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-25
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Riding High
Overview: A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Chain Gang
Overview: Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Forty Naughty Girls
Overview: Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
Genres: Mystery Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Border Cafe
Overview: The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
Genres: Western Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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The Argyle Secrets
Overview: A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-07
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Moonlight in Havana
Overview: A talented baseball player discovers he can only sing beautifully when he has a cold, leading a nightclub manager to hilariously attempt to keep him sick while featuring a host of musical performances.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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Down Laredo Way
Overview: Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-05
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Side by Side
Overview: Three men who have just been forced to retire convince their bank to finance their dream: To produce a line of clothing for senior citizens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-06
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Escape from Hong Kong
Overview: Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-15
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On Again—Off Again
Overview: This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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High Flyers
Overview: Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-07
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Stop That Cab
Overview: Sid Melton stars as a taxi driver dealing with nutty passengers and a nagging wife. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-30
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Venture of Faith
Overview: Shortly after WWII, students at Valparaiso University in Indiana come together to raise funds and construct a new building on campus, so the school can offer a four-year engineering degree.
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Original Language: en
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Hideaway
Overview: A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-13
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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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The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
Overview: "An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-30
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Masked Raiders
Overview: Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier. Infiltrating the gang, Holt and Martin learn that the raiders are operating altruistically, robbing from the rich to give to the poor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-14
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The World of Tomorrow
Overview: Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards Jr. as a child at the World's Fair and clips from the promotional film "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair" (1939).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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Johnny Come Lately
Overview: Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-03
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Hi, Buddy
Overview: Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI Dave O'Connor, who comes to the rescue when a boy's club is threatened with foreclosure. Upon learning that the money targetted for the club has been appropriated by a crooked manager, O'Connor calls upon his army buddies to stage a big, fundraising show.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-26
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Timber!
Overview: Two FBI agents are sent to investigate sabotage at a lumber camp.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Shantytown
Overview: Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-20
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
Overview: Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-07
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The Missing Are Deadly
Overview: An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable virus that can kill 100 million people in three weeks.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-08
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Blades of the Musketeers
Overview: In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England. Originally produced as a 60-minute episode of THE MAGNAVOX THEATER on CBS as THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This has the distinction of being the first movie specifically made for TV. Later retitled and released theatrically.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-24
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Rebel City
Overview: Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's problems. Thus, our hero undertakes the task of exposing the killer himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-10
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Overview: A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-05
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Flesh and Fantasy
Overview: Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-29
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Mexican Manhunt
Overview: Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that occurred fifteen years ago. It's an obsession for Dave to solve that murder.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-13
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Air Hostess
Overview: The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II. Ruth meets a smart-alec pilot, Dennis Hogan, but complications arise as Lorraine also has an interest in him. Jennifer meets a war-buddy of her husband, Fred MacCoy. All three women, with each other's help, makes it through to graduation day.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-25
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Port of Hell
Overview: The new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his strict enforcement of all the safety rules. He takes the time, though, to romance the sister of his biggest rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-05
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