Marie Wilson
Also Known As: Katherine Elizabeth Wilson
Biography: Katherine Elisabeth Wilson (August 19, 1916 – November 23, 1972), better known by her stage name, Marie Wilson, was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in My Friend Irma. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marie Wilson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Anaheim, California, USA
Birthday: August 19, 1916
Deathday: November 23, 1972
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Gender: Female
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Babes in Toyland
Overview: Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Satan Met a Lady
Overview: In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-22
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Overview: Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-15
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The Story of Mankind
Overview: The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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A Girl in Every Port
Overview: After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-13
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China Clipper
Overview: An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-11
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My Friend Irma
Overview: Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-14
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My Friend Irma Goes West
Overview: Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-25
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Broadway
Overview: Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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No Leave, No Love
Overview: A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he falls in love with a woman at the hotel at which he is staying.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-10
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Overview: Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-29
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Never Wave at a WAC
Overview: A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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Colleen
Overview: Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-21
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Boy Meets Girl
Overview: Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-27
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The Great Garrick
Overview: A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Overview: A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
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Swingtime in the Movies
Overview: In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
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Miss Pacific Fleet
Overview: A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-14
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Fools for Scandal
Overview: An incognito Hollywood star (Carole Lombard) in Paris meets a penniless nobleman (Fernand Gravet) who follows her to London.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-16
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Ladies Crave Excitement
Overview: Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-21
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Broadway Hostess
Overview: Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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The Invisible Menace
Overview: Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-11
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Young Widow
Overview: A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-01
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Melody for Two
Overview: A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-01
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Ellis in Freedomland
Overview: Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
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King of Hockey
Overview: Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Virginia
Overview: Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-28
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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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Down to Their Last Yacht
Overview: Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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Waterfront
Overview: A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-15
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Bum Voyage
Overview: The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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Public Wedding
Overview: The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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Stars Over Broadway
Overview: An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-23
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Sweepstakes Winner
Overview: A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-20
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The Big Noise
Overview: The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-22
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Shine on Harvest Moon
Overview: Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-10
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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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Harvard Here I Come
Overview: Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delighted by the "honor", and promptly tries to enroll at the ivy-league university. Upon arriving on campus, he is pounced upon by a group of eccentric scientists led by Professor Alvin, who is convinced that Rosenbloom is the "missing link" that science has long been searching for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-18
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You Can't Ration Love
Overview: In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their dates so that all of them can have some fun. This is beneficial for the campus wimp who suddenly finds himself the hottest property on campus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-28
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Rookies on Parade
Overview: The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending to boost the morale of their fellow draftees, our heroes stage a big musical show, which they eventually hope will graduate to Broadway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-16
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Flying Blind
Overview: A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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She's in the Army
Overview: A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-15
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Broadway Musketeers
Overview: Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-08
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Over the Goal
Overview: The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-16
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Marry Me Again
Overview: Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars and Bill won't marry her because he dreams of a home and babies, with himself as the sole source of income on his $65 a week. Doris has to find a way to make him change his mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-22
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Overview: Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-28
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Music for Millions
Overview: Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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The Fabulous Joe
Overview: Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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