Jan Wiley
Also Known As: Jan Harriet Wiley, Harriett Brandon
Biography: Jan Wiley was born on February 23, 1916 in Marion, Indiana, USA as Jan Harriet Wiley. She was an actress, known for She-Wolf of London (1946), The Brute Man (1946) and Stage Door (1937). She was married to Mort Greene and Roger Clark. She died on May 27, 1993 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marion, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday: February 23, 1916
Deathday: May 27, 1993
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Almost Married
Overview: To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-22
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The Living Ghost
Overview: A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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Below the Deadline
Overview: A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-03
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Stage Door
Overview: The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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She-Wolf of London
Overview: A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-17
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The Brute Man
Overview: A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-01
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Thunder River Feud
Overview: Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash. Later Alibi arrives and the three go to work when outlaws trick the Pembroke ranch and it's neighbor into a gunfight with each other.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-09
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Overview: A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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Frontier Gal
Overview: Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-14
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Criminal Investigator
Overview: A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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Secret Agent X-9
Overview: American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-24
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Overview: It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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A Fig Leaf for Eve
Overview: A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-04
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The Underdog
Overview: During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-17
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The Master Key
Overview: Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America.
Genres: Action War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-24
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New Faces of 1937
Overview: A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Jive Junction
Overview: A young classical musician becomes the conductor a high-school all-girl jive band to entertain the troops.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
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Tonto Basin Outlaws
Overview: Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply. Arriving in North Butte, Crash's home town, they all get separate jobs. Jane Blanchard, a reporter from the Denver Daily, also arrives in town in search of a story, and is posing as a waitress. They learn that Jeff Miller is behind the huge combine of rustlers, but Miller also learns that they are the Range Busters and are on his trail. He and his henchmen engage the out-numbered Crash and Alibi in a fight, but Dusty stampedes a large herd of Miller's stolen cattle into the midst of the fray.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-09
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The Cisco Kid Returns
Overview: After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid Returns. Duncan Renaldo, actually Rumanian, starred as the Mexican "Robin Hood of the Old West", with Martin Garralaga as his corpulent sidekick Pancho. In the tradition of 20th Century-Fox's earlier "Cisco" efforts, our hero comes to the aid of an orphaned child, clears himself of a kidnapping charge, and proves that a "solid citizen" is in fact a criminal mastermind.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-16
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City of Silent Men
Overview: The plot revolves around a group of ex-convicts who try to start life anew by relocating in a small town under assumed names. The mayor of the town welcomes the former cons with open arms, helping them re-open a dormant canning factory and encouraging them to hire other reformed criminals.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-12
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Law Men
Overview: U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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Kitty Foyle
Overview: A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Overview: Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Citizen Kane
Overview: Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Zis Boom Bah
Overview: "Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-07
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Overview: Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Parachute Nurse
Overview: Nurses parachuting.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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Fired Wife
Overview: A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-04
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So Proudly We Hail
Overview: During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-09
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Overview: Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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