Nancy Saunders
Also Known As: not available
Biography: This pretty, blonde 1940s B-movie starlet was the daughter of newspaperman Leonard Sanders and showgirl Blanche Thompson (who also appeared in a few silent pictures). By her own account, she was born in Hollywood as Nancy Lou Sanders on June 29 1925, the day of the Santa Barbara earthquake. Curiously, being in the movies had not been her primary career choice when she was spotted dancing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub by journeyman actor and talent scout Don Dillaway. Dillaway took an instant shine to Nancy and managed to arrange a screen test at RKO. She passed muster and was rewarded with a six-month contract (being an experienced equestrian from the age of eight also helped clinch the deal). Before long, she found herself on the cover of Life magazine -- along with Jane Greer and Martha Hyer -- as one of 'nine hopefuls'. After five pictures, RKO dropped her option and Nancy moved over to Columbia where she went on to appear in no less than thirteen pictures in 1947 alone. Many of these were horse operas, including half a dozen of the Durango Kid series with Charles Starrett, shot at the Columbia ranch in Burbank. Nancy also doubled for Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai (1947) (wearing a blonde wig) and The Loves of Carmen (1948) (dressed as a gypsy). She was Gerald Mohr's leading lady in The Lone Wolf in London (1947) and popped up in a few Three Stooges comedies which she later said to have really enjoyed being in. When her Hollywood career began to falter in the early 50s, Nancy found work as a tour booking agent with Air Cal Airlines. In 1996, she came out of retirement for occasional TV guest appearances. She was predeceased by her husband of 43 years, a sales rep for Seagram and Jim Bean. - Biography By: I.S.Mowis
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 29, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 13, 2020
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The Woman on the Beach
Overview: A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-07
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The Millerson Case
Overview: While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-29
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I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Overview: Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-07
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Stone Age Romeos
Overview: The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-02
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Slappily Married
Overview: Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-07
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Whirlwind Raiders
Overview: It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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A Likely Story
Overview: A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-18
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Outlaw Country
Overview: Lash goes south of the border looking for a counterfeiter, a kidnapped engraver and his daughter, and the mysterious Frontier Phantom, while Fuzzy St. John studies hypnotism.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-07
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The Lone Wolf in London
Overview: Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned by a member of the nobility to help the latter raise money to pay a blackmailer. Lanyard later finds evidence to reveal the diamonds as having been stolen by a famous stage star.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-13
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South of the Chisholm Trail
Overview: When the ranchers of Bearcat are plagued by rustlers, Big Jim Grady offers to buy their herds from them at low-ball prices. Steve Haley suggests to the ranchers that they band together and drive their herds to Abilene, Kansas and get full price. Steve's friend Smiley "joins" the rustlers to learn who their leader is. Grady henchman Doc Walker asks Steve to help break up the cattle drive, and he agrees in order to keep tabs on the rustlers. The gang makes several attempts to take the trail herd but Steve, in his guise as the Durango Kid, intervenes and saves the cattle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-30
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Prairie Raiders
Overview: Government Agent Steve leases land to Masters so he can bring in horses for the Army. Henley has obtained a forged lease for the same land and Steve is unable to prove it's a fake. While Steve checks with Washington, Henley plans to roundup and ship the horses. Masters also intends to roundup the horses and he has the Durango Kid on his side in the battle with Henley.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-29
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Law of the Canyon
Overview: Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break up the Hood Gang that's behind the robberies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-23
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West of Dodge City
Overview: Charles Starrett once again dons the disguise of the "Durango Kid" to restore law and order in this entry in Columbia's Western series. This time, the Kid, aka Steve Ramsey, witnesses a stage robbery, during which local rancher John Avery is brutally murdered.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-26
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Arizona Territory
Overview: Prospector Jeff Malloy rescues Doris Devlin, owner of a trading post, from an ambush planned by her uncle, Kilburn, who is trying to scare her out of the territory so that he can continue his counterfeiting operations.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-02
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Six-Gun Law
Overview: In this western, an entry in the "Durango Kid" series of westerns, a corrupt, prominent citizen owns a small western town. The trouble begins when a cowboy finds himself convinced by the evil town father that he has killed the sheriff. In exchange for his silence, the official forces the man to become the new sheriff and instructs him to turn a blind eye to the villain's evil doings.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-09
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The Shunning
Overview: Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-16
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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Overview: Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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The Ghost Talks
Overview: The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the two ride off together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-03
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It Had to Be You
Overview: A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
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The Locket
Overview: A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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Love-Struck
Overview: Two years after her last failed relationship, Emily Vale has stopped believing in love. This brings her to the attention of Venus who sends her son Cupid down to Earth to pierce her with an arrow in the hope of changing her mind. Unfortunately, the handsome but hapless Cupid misses and the arrow strikes his own heart making him fall hopelessly in love with Emily. Thus he is granted temporary leave from paradise in order to pursue her. However, not only does he have a limited time on Earth, but also Emily's last boyfriend, the handsome but sleazy Ted has just shown up intent on winning her back. Which one will Emily choose? And is she ready to open her heart and accept love into her life once more?
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-31
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