Carole Mathews
Also Known As: Jean Deifel, Jeanne Francis
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montgomery, Illinois, USA
Birthday: September 13, 1920
Deathday: November 06, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Look in Any Window
Overview: A teenager's parents finally realize how bad their home life is when their son is arrested for prowling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-29
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Swamp Women
Overview: An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
Genres: Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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No Man of Her Own
Overview: A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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I Love a Mystery
Overview: In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-25
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The Man with My Face
Overview: A man discovers that an evil twin has taken over his life.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-14
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Paid in Full
Overview: Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-15
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Chicago Deadline
Overview: On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-03
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The Great Gatsby
Overview: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-13
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Tahiti Nights
Overview: Islanders make arrangements for an American bandleader to marry a princess.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-28
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Together Again
Overview: Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on and to raise his daughter from his first marriage. She lives with the daughter, her father-in-law and a housekeeper. In the town square, there was a statue of her late husband and every year since his death, they have an anniversary celebration there. This year during a thunderstorm, the statue is hit by lightning and the head falls off. The daughter insists that a new statue be erected instead of patching the old one. Mayor Crandall is sent to New York to interview the prospective sculptor, George Corday.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-23
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Dancing in Manhattan
Overview: In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wild night on the town. He and his girlfriend do not know that the money represents the spoils of a blackmailer's scheme.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-14
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The Girl in the Case
Overview: William Warner is a lawyer who is famous for his skill at opening any kind of lock, making him a valuable commodity. William is unknowingly enlisted by German spies who want him to open a chest containing a secret formula. This leads to a madcap adventure involving spies, the police and lots of picked locks!
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-20
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Springtime in the Rockies
Overview: Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-06
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Footlight Serenade
Overview: Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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The Girl from Avenue A
Overview: A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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Rose of Washington Square
Overview: Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Romance in the Dark
Overview: A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-24
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Fame
Overview: A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film. The results are unexpected.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-02
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Ten Cents a Dance
Overview: Two privates on a 36 hour pass meet two dance hall dames, complications ensue!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-07
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The Missing Juror
Overview: A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-16
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Strange Affair
Overview: Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-05
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Over 21
Overview: A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-08
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Keep Your Powder Dry
Overview: A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-01
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The Strange Awakening
Overview: Peter Chance suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia in a luxurious home, where a doctor and several women tell him he's a missing heir who's inherited millions. But Peter soon suspects something is not quite right with their story. He sets out to learn the truth before he's forced to sign a document that purportedly finalizes the transfer of the estate. This drama is based on Hugh Wheeler's novel Puzzle for Fiends.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-16
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Betrayed Women
Overview: Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-17
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Special Agent
Overview: A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-22
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Cry Murder
Overview: A young actress has retired from films to marry the son of a prominent and rich politician in New York City. The father objects strongly to the marriage. The actress is being blackmailed by a second-rate artist who has stolen some letters from her that could be misconstrued. During the payoff, she is knocked unconscious, and awakens to find herself involved in a murder and the police have her marked as the number-one suspect.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-06
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Treasure of Ruby Hills
Overview: Ranchers battle one another over water rights. Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-23
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The Monster and the Ape
Overview: A famous scientist invents a humanoid robot (the titular "monster"), so a greedy rival scientist plans to steal it for use in his criminal plans. His henchmen often kidnap a trained gorilla (the titular "ape") from the zoo, to aid in the schemes.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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City of Bad Men
Overview: Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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Assignment Redhead
Overview: An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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The Percentage
Overview: Eddie Slovak meets an old Army buddy named Pete who once saved his life. He intends to repay his friend, but Pete refuses.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-05
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Massacre River
Overview: Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-26
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The Accused
Overview: A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-12
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Red Snow
Overview: Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alsaka native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-07
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College Holiday
Overview: College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Swing in the Saddle
Overview: In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admirer. Songs include: "Amor," (Sunny Skylar, Gabriel Ruiz), "Hey Mabel" (Fred Stryker), "By the River Sainte Marie" (Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren), "She Broke My Heart in Three Places" (Oliver Drake), "When It's Harvest Time in Peaceful Valley" (Robert Martin, Raymond McKee), and "There'll Be a Jubilee" (Phil Moore).
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-30
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Showdown at Boot Hill
Overview: Bounty hunter Luke Welsh arrives looking for a wanted man. When that man draws on him he has to kill him. To collect his reward he needs a statement identifying him. But the man was well liked in town and no one will sign such a statement. When he outdraws another man who thought he was faster, some townsmen decide he should be killed and they organize a mob to go after him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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Two Gun Marshal
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Sing Me a Song of Texas
Overview: The two nieces of the deceased Charley Bronson arrive to learn that an unknown judge will determine which one of them will inherit his ranch. But Bronson is still alive and posing as the cook. Hilda learns of this and sets out to use this information to win the ranch from her cousin Laurie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-08
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13 Fighting Men
Overview: A group of Union Army soldiers is charged with protecting a box of gold and getting it to its rightful place within the government coffers.
Genres: War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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Blazing the Western Trail
Overview: Stage line owner Brent has his men robbing Halliday stages and when his manager Waring learns of it, Brent has him killed. Jeff Waring arrives and takes his uncle's job. He soon learns what's happening and the Durango Kid goes into action. This keeps Halliday going and gives them a chance to get the mail contract by winning the stagecoach race.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-08
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Here's to Romance
Overview: Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Outlaws of the Rockies
Overview: Outlaws of the Rockies is the fourth of Columbia's revitalized "Durango Kid" series. Charles Starrett is back in the saddle as the masked do-gooder Durango, aka easygoing sheriff Steve Williams. Accused of being a member of an outlaw gang, Williams is forced to don his Durango disguise to bring the actual criminals to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-18
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The Two Gun Teacher
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Shark River
Overview: Nobody has an easy time of it in the costume actioner Shark River. Wanted for murder, Clay Webley (Warren Stevens) and his wounded cellmate Curtis Parker (Robert Cunningham) hack their way through the Florida swampland. With the help of Clay's brother Dan (Steve Cochran), Clay is able to elude the authorities, but Parker dies of a snakebite. Subsisting on alligator meat, Dan and Clay make their way to the tiny cabin inhabited by widowed Jane Daughterty (Carole Mathews), her mother-in-law, and her son Johnny (Spencer Fox). The brothers rest here awhile, formulating plans to cross the Gulf of Mexico and head for Cuba.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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She's a Sweetheart
Overview: In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-07
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Port of Hell
Overview: The new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his strict enforcement of all the safety rules. He takes the time, though, to romance the sister of his biggest rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-05
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Sealed Verdict
Overview: John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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A Thousand and One Nights
Overview: On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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Amazon Quest
Overview: Thomas Dekker is a diamond cutter attempting to reclaim his right to a portion of a rubber empire in the early part of the twentieth century. Tom travels to Brazil to uncover the fate of his father and along the way meets Teresa, a local girl who offers to be his guide in the jungle. Eventually, they encounter three armed men who take them to Lobato, a bandit who knew his father. Once convinced that Tom is his friend's son, Lobato tells him a lengthy story which culminates with his meeting Tom's father, who rescued him from drowning. With the help of "flashbacks" from an obscure South American feature, Tom learns what really became of his father.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-13
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Over 21
Overview: A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-08
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Tender Is the Night
Overview: Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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Meet Me at the Fair
Overview: In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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