Also Known As: Nydia Eileen Westman
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television. Westman's parents, Theodore and Lily (Wren) Westman were active in vaudeville in her native New York City. In addition to their working together on stage, her mother was a writer and her father was a composer. She attended the Professional Children's School. Her sisters, Lolita and Neville were actresses, and her brother, Theodore (d. November 20, 1927), was an actor and playwright. Westman's career ranged from episodic appearances on TV series such as That Girl and Dragnet and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in groundbreaking films (such as Craig's Wife, which starred Rosalind Russell, and the first film version of Little Women. Westman's screen debut came in Strange Justice (1922). She appeared in 31 films in the 1930s. She appeared as the housekeeper Mrs. Featherstone in the 1962–1963 ABC series, Going My Way, which starred Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll as Roman Catholic priests in New York City. Westman's first Broadway play was Pigs (1924); her last was Midgie Purvis (1961). She broke ground on stage, debuting the role of Nell off-Broadway in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, for which she won one of the first Obie awards. Westman was married to Robert Sparks, a producer, from 1930 until 1937; they had a daughter, actress Kate Williamson, born on September 19, 1931. Westman died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight in Burbank, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: February 19, 1902
Deathday: May 23, 1970
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Gender: Female
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Overview: Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Genres: Comedy Family Mystery Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-20
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Overview: After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-13
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Overview: Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences tribulations, joy, and kindness from their wealthy neighbor and his high-spirited grandson.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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Overview: Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Overview: Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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Overview: Dressed to Thrill is a 1935 American musical film directed by Harry Lachman and written by Samson Raphaelson. The film stars Tutta Rolf, Clive Brook, Robert Barrat, Nydia Westman and Dina Smirnova. The film was released on August 16, 1935, by Fox Film Corporation. It was a remake of the 1932 French film The Dressmaker of Luneville which had also been directed by Lachman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-08
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Overview: An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-13
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Overview: It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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Overview: Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Overview: The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Overview: After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-29
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Overview: A famous concert pianist unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness falls in love with a waitress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-11
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Overview: The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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Overview: Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-22
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Overview: Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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Overview: A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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Overview: A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-16
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Overview: After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Overview: Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Overview: Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and is blackmailed by him into continuing. Close to being found out, the two devise a scheme which sends Wally, the ex-con boyfriend of pretty hat check girl Rose Abbott, to death row.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-07
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Overview: David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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Overview: In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-29
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Overview: Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-25
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Overview: Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-16
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Overview: A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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Overview: The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-18
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Overview: The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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Overview: Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-28
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Overview: Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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Overview: In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a mentor turns her into a successful Broadway entertainer. She returns to her former college to get sweet revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-26
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Overview: Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-10
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Overview: Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is as a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a layperson into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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Overview: Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Overview: A TV executive tries to create a musical special to save his network.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Overview: An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-26
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Overview: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Overview: Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-16
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Overview: George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-19
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Overview: When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Overview: An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-29
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Overview: In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-19
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Overview: Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-16
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Overview: A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-23
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Overview: Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-11
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Overview: Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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Overview: In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.
Genres: Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-28
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Overview: Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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Overview: In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-14
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Overview: Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-20
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Overview: Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-30
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