Jeanne Bates
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Biography: Jeanne Bates (May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007) was an American actress. After performing in radio serials, she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942 which began her career in films both in bit parts and larger roles in a series of horror films and noirs, including The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946). In her later career, Bates would collaborate with David Lynch on his films Eraserhead (1977) and Mulholland Drive (2001), the latter of which was her last film credit before her death in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeanne Bates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, USA
Birthday: May 20, 1918
Deathday: November 28, 2007
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Gender: Female
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Eraserhead
Overview: First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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Mulholland Drive
Overview: Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-06
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Die Hard 2
Overview: One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-03
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Getting Married
Overview: A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-17
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Vice Raid
Overview: A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Public Enemy #2
Overview: Second City Television alumnus Dave Thomas stars in this hilarious spoof of "America's Most Wanted." Thomas portrays Wynn Dalton, a talentless acting hopeful who bears an uncanny resemblance to Dwayne Gary Steckler (also played by Thomas), a psycho killer currently terrorizing the nation. When Dalton's mug lands him a role playing Steckler on a "true life" crime show, "All Points Bullitain," the real Steckler decides to take his place. Naturally, the ratings go through the roof. Mike Connors and Mary Gross costar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Grand Canyon
Overview: Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-25
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The Soul of a Monster
Overview: A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-17
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The Mask of Diijon
Overview: A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-11
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Gus
Overview: The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-07
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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Tonight and Every Night
Overview: An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-09
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The Black Parachute
Overview: A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-04
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Mulholland Dr.
Overview: Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Mom
Overview: During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-19
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Trooper Hook
Overview: When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-12
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Sundown Valley
Overview: In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-23
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The Slowest Gun in the West
Overview: The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-07
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Hi Grandma!
Overview: A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here, the voice is that of the genius's evil-dead grandmother. A woman whose malign influence scarred her own children for life and corrupted the innocence of her grandchildren.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-07
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The Racket Man
Overview: A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-18
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Sergeant Mike
Overview: A soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit to the canine corps. He begins to change his opinion when he learns that his army dog Mike was a gift from an eight-year-old whose father was killed in the war. Now the soldier becomes committed to training Mike into the best army dog there ever was.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-09
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She's a Soldier Too
Overview: Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-29
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The Phantom
Overview: Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological site, and the other by a greedy treasure hunter who wants to keep the fabled treasures of the city for himself. An agent of a foreign power also wants to establish a secret airbase there, so he stirs up the natives against The Phantom, who has been able to get them to stay peaceful so far. When The Phantom is murdered, his son takes his place and sets out to restore peace to the jungle and stop the agents' and the treasure hunters' nefarious plans.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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General Electric Theater: Into the Night
Overview: A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-08
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Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
Overview: Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to leave the business and lead a normal life. Elle is hellbent to see that she never has one.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-31
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Dream Lover
Overview: Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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From the Dead of Night
Overview: After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back into the world of the dead. Her boyfriend Glen thinks she's crazy so Joanna turns to her ex-boyfriend, Peter. It just so happens that Peter is a strong believer in the supernatural and even teaches a course on it at a local college. Together they must confront the "walkers" so that Joanna can live to see another day.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-27
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Silent Night Deadly Night 4: Initiation
Overview: A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-21
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The Strangler
Overview: An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Guns Don't Argue
Overview: The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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The Return of the Vampire
Overview: In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-11
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Shadows in the Night
Overview: A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-27
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Sabaka
Overview: A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-02
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It's Murder
Overview: Documentary short film explaining the need for secrecy in the exchange of sensitive government information, so as to prevent sabotage or subversion of the American war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Death of a Salesman
Overview: Willy Loman is an aging salesman who was recently fired from his job. Dealing with feelings of failure, Willy begins to relive events from the past that involve his older son, Biff, and his wife, Linda. Willy tries to learn from past mistakes and works to make amends with his family, but his biggest struggle is to make peace with himself over a failed dream of financial success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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Blood Arrow
Overview: Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coates is cast as a devout Mormon girl whose mission is to transport smallpox vaccine to her friends and neighbors. Unfortunately, this requires her to journey through hostile Indian territory. Appointing themselves as the girl's unofficial protectors are Indian scout Scott Brady, trapper Don Haggerty and (reluctantly) gambler Paul Richards.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-31
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