Ruth McDevitt
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Biography: Ruth McDevitt (September 13, 1895 – May 27, 1976) was an American stage, film, radio and television actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth McDevitt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.
Adult: No
Birthday: September 13, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 27, 1976
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The Birds
Overview: Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-28
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The Shakiest Gun in the West
Overview: Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
Genres: Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-10
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Boys' Night Out
Overview: Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-21
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Dear Heart
Overview: A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-07
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One of My Wives Is Missing
Overview: Vacationing in a small town, a frantic Daniel Corban shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared. Corban imperiously demands that the easygoing police inspector drop everything and find his missing spouse. Within a few days, a woman claiming to be his wife shows up, but Corban insists that he's never met the woman before.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-05
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Homebodies
Overview: When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-01
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Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Overview: Compilation of several episodes of the TV series Pistols 'n' Petticoats.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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Love Is a Ball
Overview: Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-24
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Mixed Company
Overview: Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddie's arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrison's neighborhood, their school, and family. Kathy's answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe. The new extended family must now learn to live together.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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The Guy Who Came Back
Overview: Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-16
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Man on the Outside
Overview: A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-29
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Mame
Overview: The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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The Girl Most Likely To...
Overview: An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-06
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A Prowler in the Heart
Overview: A mystery novelist meticulously creates an alibi to keep her husband from being convicted of murder.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-25
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Winter Kill
Overview: Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-15
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The Parent Trap
Overview: Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-13
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Skyway to Death
Overview: The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8,500 feet in the air.
Genres: Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-19
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The Love God?
Overview: Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-01
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My Father's House
Overview: Recovering from a heart attack, a workaholic editor recalls the simple days of his youth. Robertson adds an emotional center to this messy, flashback-filled 'heavy' dramatic piece. Plenty of co-star talent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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The Abduction of Saint Anne
Overview: A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-21
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The Couple Takes a Wife
Overview: Complications ensue when an overworked couple decides to hire a "wife" — someone who can run the household for them with complete autonomy — but she's a little too attractive for comfort.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-05
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The War Between Men and Women
Overview: A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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In Search of America
Overview: Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them into joining him in traveling the country and educating themselves about the state of things. They, along with Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) trick out an old Greyhound bus and hit the road. The picaresque plotline brings the family into contact with a variety of colorful characters. The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but it ends on an ambiguous note with plenty of loose plot ends. In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-23
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Change of Habit
Overview: Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns in full habit would not be well received. Unaware of her unavailability, John falls for Sister Michelle, serenading her with his guitar — which, luckily for him, effectively wears away at her religious resolve.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-10
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Crackle of Death
Overview: The first of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Firefall (about the ghost of an arsonist that tries to take over a renowned conductor's body as his doppelgänger) and The Energy Eater (about a Native American bear-spirit haunting a newly built hospital) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-28
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Demon and the Mummy
Overview: The second of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Demon In Lace (about a succubus who murders young men to maintain her immortality) and Legacy of Terror (about an Aztec cult that seeks to resurrect their god by murdering physically perfect people) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-14
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Angel in My Pocket
Overview: The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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