Hillary Brooke
Also Known As: Hillary Brook, Hilary Brooke, Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson, Beatrice Schute, Μπεατρίς Σοφία Ματίλντα Πέτερσον
Biography: Hillary Brooke (born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson) was an American screen and television actress best known for her work in Abbott and Costello and Sherlock Holmes films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Astoria, New York, USA
Birthday: September 08, 1914
Deathday: May 25, 1999
Adult: No
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Overview: A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-16
Popularity:
Africa Screams
Overview: When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-04
Popularity:
Invaders from Mars
Overview: In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-22
Popularity:
Strange Impersonation
Overview: A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.
Genres: Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-16
Popularity:
Ministry of Fear
Overview: Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-19
Popularity:
Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
Popularity:
Big Town
Overview: A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-23
Popularity:
The House Across the Lake
Overview: Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older man, loving only his vast wealth and continued to amuse herself with indiscreet affairs. But when neighbour Mark Kendrick lets slip that her husband intends cutting her out of his will Carol concentrates all her attentions on the unsuspecting Kendrick, obtaining his help to dispose of this irritating obstacle.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-16
Popularity:
The Strange Woman
Overview: In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-25
Popularity:
The Woman in Green
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-15
Popularity:
Road to Utopia
Overview: While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-27
Popularity:
Unmasked
Overview: The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her when she gets a divorce. However, the husband refuses to grant her a divorce, and takes back all the money and jewelry he has given her. The editor sees her husband leaving her apartment and, seeing his opportunity, kills her, takes all his IOUs (and the jewelry) and frames the husband for the murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-30
Popularity:
The Enchanted Cottage
Overview: A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-28
Popularity:
The Admiral Was a Lady
Overview: Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-04
Popularity:
Lost Continent
Overview: When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain...
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-17
Popularity:
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Overview: Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-27
Popularity:
Willie and the Mouse
Overview: John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" purports to show how the behavior of mice can be studied in relation to the interaction of school children.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-17
Popularity:
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Overview: During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-17
Popularity:
The Crime Doctor's Courage
Overview: A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-27
Popularity:
The Maze
Overview: A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-02
Popularity:
Confidence Girl
Overview: After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her greedy boyfriend and partner, Roger (Tom Conway), convinces her to pull off one final scam before they get married. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, this classic crime film finds the police struggling to keep up with the deceptive duo's exceedingly complicated schemes.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-20
Popularity:
Counter-Espionage
Overview: The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-03
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Bodyhold
Overview: A plumber with a girlfriend turns pro wrestler for a crooked promoter.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-08
Popularity:
Vendetta
Overview: The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
Popularity:
Insurance Investigator
Overview: When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-23
Popularity:
I Cover Big Town
Overview: One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-27
Popularity:
Big Town Scandal
Overview: A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-27
Popularity:
Big Town After Dark
Overview: A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-12
Popularity:
Up Goes Maisie
Overview: A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
Popularity:
Alimony
Overview: A promising young composer is tempted away from his devoted wife by a fortune-seeking woman who cares more for his prospects than for him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-11
Popularity:
Standing Room Only
Overview: During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-07
Popularity:
Married Bachelor
Overview: A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-16
Popularity:
Bengazi
Overview: An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arabs in a deserted mosque in the Sahara. The situation becomes complicated when they are surrounded by Bedouin bandits.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-14
Popularity:
The Lady Wants Mink
Overview: A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-29
Popularity:
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Overview: A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
Popularity:
Lucky Losers
Overview: Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-14
Popularity:
Two-Faced Woman
Overview: A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Wake Island
Overview: In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
Popularity:
Spoilers of the Forest
Overview: Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-04
Popularity:
Eternally Yours
Overview: Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-07
Popularity:
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Overview: An aspiring singer and her lover, a songwriter who has desperately resorted to writing radio jingles, have many conflicts on their road to success...
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-22
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Fuller Brush Man
Overview: Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
Popularity:
The Philadelphia Story
Overview: When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
Popularity:
New Moon
Overview: A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
Popularity:
Florian
Overview: Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-05
Popularity:
Two Girls on Broadway
Overview: Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
Popularity:
Maisie Was a Lady
Overview: Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-10
Popularity:
The Lone Rider Rides On
Overview: Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole the deed to their land. Though he was only a child at the time, he vividly remembers the scar on the ringleader's face -- and Tom will stop at nothing until he brings him to justice … and exacts vengeance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-10
Popularity:
Skipalong Rosenbloom
Overview: Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy Butcher Baer.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-30
Popularity:
Beauty on Parade
Overview: Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock. She hopes to realize her past ambitions for fame and fortune through her daughter Kay, whom she persuades to enter a local beauty contest. Kay wins and is interviewed by reporter Gil McRoberts, who advises her to get married and settle down. Jeffrey is very upset with his wife's and daughter's passion for beauty contests and, when Kay enters the national contest, he informs Marian that she must choose between him and her chase after empty honors for Kay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-04
Popularity:
Strange Journey
Overview: Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-03
Popularity:
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Overview: England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
Popularity:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-12
Popularity:
The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
Overview: Featuring the routines that made them comedy legends like “Who’s On First?,” and “The Lemon Bit,” this digitally restored and re-mastered “Best Of” collection includes six of the Abbott and Costello Show’s most beloved episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-01
Popularity:
The Gentleman Misbehaves
Overview: After his first attempt to obtain cash fails, a Broadway producer turns to a gambler to raise money for his show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-28
Popularity:
Dragon's Gold
Overview: Murder and intrigue follow an insurance investigator Mack Rossiter (John Archer) after he is dispatched to China to investigate the disappearance of 7M worth of gold.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-10
Popularity:
Ship Ahoy
Overview: Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
Popularity:
Let's Live Again
Overview: The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-27
Popularity:
Monsieur Beaucaire
Overview: A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-04
Popularity: