Patricia Morison
Also Known As: Patricia Morrison, Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison
Biography: Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison (March 19, 1915 – May 20, 2018) was an American stage and film actress and mezzo-soprano singer. She made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage. She was lauded as a beauty with large eyes and extremely long, dark hair. During this period of her career, she was often cast as the femme fatale or "other woman". It was only when she returned to the Broadway stage that she achieved her greatest success as the lead in the original production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patricia Morison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 19, 1915
Deathday: May 20, 2018
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Gender: Female
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Dressed to Kill
Overview: A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-24
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Lady on a Train
Overview: While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-03
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Queen of the Amazons
Overview: Jean Preston is determined to find her fiancée, Greg Jones, who went on a safari and didn’t come back when expected. She travels to Akbar, India with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones, Wayne Monroe and the Professor. She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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The Fallen Sparrow
Overview: Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Song of the Thin Man
Overview: Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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Calling Dr. Death
Overview: Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-17
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Tarzan and the Huntress
Overview: A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-05
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Danger Woman
Overview: A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-12
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
Overview: A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-25
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Hitler's Madman
Overview: In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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Song Without End
Overview: The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-11
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Night in New Orleans
Overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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The Magnificent Fraud
Overview: A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-19
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Romance of the Rio Grande
Overview: When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-17
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Where Are Your Children?
Overview: Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the Navy and is sent to San Diego for training. She accepts an invitation to go on a ride to San Diego with her friends Herb (Neyle Morrow), Opal (Evelyn Eaton)and Jerry (Jimmy Zahner) but doesn't know the car has been stolen.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-26
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Are Husbands Necessary?
Overview: George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on George's earnings as a bank official, Liz's scatterbrained handling of their finances constantly puts them in jeopardy. Liz becomes jealous when George's former girl friend, Myra Ponsonby, comes for a visit with his party-loving friends Bill Stone, Cory Cartwright and Chuck, an artist, after which George spends the entire evening dancing at a nightclub with Myra.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-15
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The Prince Of Thieves
Overview: After fighting in the Crusades alongside Richard I of England Sir Allan Claire is returning home to marry his betrothed Lady Christable. Accompanied by his sister Lady Marian Claire, the two are intercepted by Robin Hood and his band of Merrie Men. Recognising a friend of King Richard, Robin informs them that Lady Christabel is the be married to another against her well in the interest of politics and her father's fortune. The three team up to rescue the fair lady.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-16
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Kiss Me, Kate
Overview: A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-20
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The Lost City of X
Overview: A team of academics fly to South America in search of ancient ruins only to find disaster.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-08
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Broadway's Lost Treasures
Overview: The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, were the producers of the show. This film offers a compilation of performances from Tony Award broadcasts during those years. They are presented with color-corrected footage and digitally re-mastered sound.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-10
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Wreckless
Overview: In her film debut, Patricia Morison played the doe eyed daughter (Mary Jane) who yearned for a young car salesman that was regularly getting into scrapes with the law. Her father forbid her to have anything to do with him, unless she could prove he was worthy as a man and as a car salesman. He then calls her saying he is in jail for driving wrecklessly, and she rushes over.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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Silver Skates
Overview: The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-26
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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Overview: Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-23
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The Song of Bernadette
Overview: In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-21
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Persons in Hiding
Overview: During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-10
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Rangers of Fortune
Overview: An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his young granddaughter. The trio learn that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron, who's endeavoring to push out ranch owners and take over the territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Untamed
Overview: A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-24
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The Roundup
Overview: Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-03
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The Walls of Jericho
Overview: In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-22
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I'm from Missouri
Overview: Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-06
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Sofia
Overview: A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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One Night In Lisbon
Overview: Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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The Return of Wildfire
Overview: In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can become king of the horse market. One stubborn rancher refuses to relent and his killed. His two surviving sisters then continue the fight. They are soon assisted by a passing drifter who ends up falling for one of them. In the end a gunfight between the good and bad guys ensues.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-13
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We're in the Movies, Now!
Overview: Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-18
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Kiss Me, Kate
Overview: Broadcast live on the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC, a pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-20
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Mirrors
Overview: An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-16
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Without Love
Overview: In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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The Long Day Closes
Overview: Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-22
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Overview: Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Genres: Music Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-03
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Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
Overview: Born Creighton Chaney, this is a biographical documentary on Lon Chaney Jr, the only star to play all four of the classic monsters: the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein and Dracula.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-25
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Richard Glazier: From Broadway to Hollywood
Overview: Pianist Richard Glazier offers a unique view of Broadway and Hollywood music using fascinating interviews, piano performances and commentary in this broadcast special.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Overview: A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-26
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