Helen Walker
Also Known As: Helen Marion Walker
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Helen Walker (born July 17, 1920 – March 10, 1968) was an American movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and made her film debut in 1942. After a promising start in Hollywood, Walker was involved in a 1946 car wreck. A hitchhiker was killed, and Walker and two others were seriously injured, for which she was charged with drunk and reckless driving. She made a comeback, but her career never fully recovered. She retired from acting at the age of 35, then died in North Hollywood, California from cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Walker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 17, 1920
Age: 104 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 10, 1968
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The Big Combo
Overview: Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-13
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People Are Funny
Overview: A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-11
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Impact
Overview: After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-20
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Call Northside 777
Overview: In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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Problem Girls
Overview: A medical student learns about a scheme to drug a girl and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fortune.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-07
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Brewster's Millions
Overview: Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-07
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My Dear Secretary
Overview: A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Nightmare Alley
Overview: Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-09
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Cluny Brown
Overview: Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-02
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Murder in the Music Hall
Overview: An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Genres: Crime Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-10
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Murder, He Says
Overview: Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-23
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Lucky Jordan
Overview: Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-16
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Abroad with Two Yanks
Overview: Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-04
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The Man in Half Moon Street
Overview: A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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The Homestretch
Overview: A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-04
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The Good Fellows
Overview: The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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My True Story
Overview: Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-08
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Her Adventurous Night
Overview: A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-05
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