Phyllis Kirk
Also Known As: Phyllis Kirkegaard, Phyllis Kirkgaard
Biography: Phyllis Kirk was an American actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 18, 1927
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 19, 2006
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Stop, You're Killing Me
Overview: With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-10
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Just This Once
Overview: An heir of a vast fortune is deeply in debt because he spends faster than his very generous trust fund allows. There is a battle of wills between his selfish spendthrift was and the money manager which is is forced/tricked into appointing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-27
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The Sad Sack
Overview: Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal Dolan and Private Stan Wensalawsky to help with the training. Dolan and Stan both have scores to settle with Bixby and their "guidance" leads to more mishaps. Sergeant Pulley has them shipped out to Morocco. On leave in North Africa, Bixy wanders alone into a bar, has a few Moroccan Delights, which he thinks are malted milks, and becomes convinced that exotic singer-dancer Zita is THE girl for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-27
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Johnny Concho
Overview: In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Two Weeks with Love
Overview: The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Back from Eternity
Overview: A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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House of Wax
Overview: A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-16
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Crime Wave
Overview: Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-22
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Canyon Crossroads
Overview: A mining engineer, who is shunned by his peers for his unorthodox beliefs concerning the whereabouts of large uranium deposits, joins forces with a girl and her father to search for the mineral. When the father is hurt in an accident, daughter and engineer continue the project, aided by a Native American guide. Unbeknownst to the group, a reputable citizen of the town, really of low moral value, is shadowing them, his intention to jump their claim.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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That Woman Opposite
Overview: In a French coastal town, Det. Dermot Kinross is inspecting the murder of antiques dealer Maurice Lawes, and the evidence points to Lawes's son, Toby -- and especially to Toby's bride-to-be, Eve Atwood. Eve's ex-husband, Ned, had his eyes set on something Lawes possessed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-28
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River Beat
Overview: British diamond smugglers use the radiowoman (Phyllis Kirk) from a freighter docked on the Thames to unwittingly "mule" their swag, hidden in cigarettes, past customs, not knowing that she has befriended an Inspector for the Thames River Patrol.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-01
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The Iron Mistress
Overview: In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
Genres: History Drama Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-19
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Our Very Own
Overview: During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-27
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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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Three Guys Named Mike
Overview: A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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A Life of Her Own
Overview: A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Thunder Over the Plains
Overview: Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-27
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She's Working Her Way Through College
Overview: Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-09
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About Face
Overview: Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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The Battler
Overview: Wandering around America, young Nick Adams encounters a washed-up punch-drunk boxer known as "The Battler".
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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