Doris Hill
Also Known As: Roberta M. Hill
Biography: From Wikipedia Doris Hill (March 21, 1905 – March 3, 1976) was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s, mostly in B movies. Born and raised in Roswell, New Mexico, Hill moved to Hollywood in the mid-1920s to pursue an acting career. First working as a vaudeville dancer, she received her first film acting role in 1926 when she starred alongside George O'Hara in Is That Nice?. She starred in seventeen films from 1926 to 1929, and unlike many silent film stars, she made a successful transition to talking films. In 1929, along with future major Hollywood star Jean Arthur, Hill was selected as one of thirteen girls to be WAMPAS Baby Stars. On contract with Paramount Pictures, she starred in four films in 1930, most notably Sons of the Saddle with popular western actor Ken Maynard. Western film roles became her most common parts, with her often starring opposite Tom Tyler. In 1932, she starred in another six films, four of which were westerns. In 1933, she starred in four films, all westerns, and by 1934, her career had slowed to almost no roles. Her last acting role was in the 1934 western Ridin' Gents opposite Jack Perrin and Ben Corbett. She retired and married actor George L. Derrick, but they divorced shortly after. She then married Hollywood director, producer and writer Monte Brice, and eventually moved to Kingman, Arizona. She died there on March 3, 1976.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Birthday: March 21, 1905
Deathday: March 03, 1976
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Gender: Female
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Code of Honor
Overview: Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-grant title has fallen into the hands of Jed Harden through the gambling weakness of Bradfield's son Tom.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-16
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Cartoons in the Country
Overview: Donald and Eleanor are in love, so that Jim realizes it is up to him to pick a peach for himself. There is only one room left at their country boarding house and Jim wants to make sure that no one but the proper peach rents it. In order to keep the proprietress busy while he interviews the applicants for the room, Jim gives her the animated picture book to look at.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-20
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The Beauty Shoppers 1927
Overview: This film was released in 1927
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-12
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Hotel Anchovy
Overview: The Ritz Brothers cause chaos in a bankrupt hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-12
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The Studio Murder Mystery
Overview: Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-01
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Rough House Rosie
Overview: A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-14
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Men Are Like That
Overview: A loud-mouthed lout alienates everyone except his patient wife.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-22
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South of the Rio Grande
Overview: Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined his brother.
Genres: Western Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-05
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His Glorious Night
Overview: Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry officer she is secretly meeting. Her mother Eugenie (Nance O'Neil), who has found out about the affair forces her to dump Kovacs and take part in the arranged marriage. Though not believing her own words, Orsolini reluctantly tells Kovacs she cannot ever fall in love with a man with his social position. Feeling deeply hurt, Kovacs decides to take revenge by indulging in blackmail, spreading a rumor that he is an imposter and a swindler.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-28
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Song of the Caballero
Overview: After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita in a runaway coach, Don Pedro invites him to the wedding of Anita and his son Don Jose. But Conchita is at the wedding and recognizes him putting his life in danger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-29
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Sons of the Saddle
Overview: Jim Brandon, foreman of the Wind River Ranch, owned by Martin Stavnow, is in love with Ronnie, the rancher's daughter, though he is unaware that Harvey, a youthful cowhand, also loves her. Thus, Jim asks the boy, whom he protects like a brother, to speak for him. When he is spurned by Ronnie, Harvey decides to join Red Slade's gang, who are plotting a raid on the Wind River herd. As Jim forcibly attempts to separate him from the gang, Harvey is killed; and through the aid of his horse, Tarzan, Jim foils Slade's attempt to stampede the herd. Slade takes refuge in a wagon where Ronnie is hiding; Jim rescues Ronnie from the wagon just before the runaway team plunges over a cliff with Slade riding to his doom.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-03
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Casey at the Bat
Overview: Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-08
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Avalanche
Overview: An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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Careless Lady
Overview: Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-02
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Darkened Rooms
Overview: Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional "de-bunkers" as Mrs. Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualist's trade.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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The Spirit of the West
Overview: To bring in the bad guys, a rodeo champ poses as an inept cowhand.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Texas Tornado
Overview: Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, posing as "Wolf" Cassidy, a notorious Chicago gangster, works his way into the rustling gang and hideout of "Three-Star" Henley, but his plans go wrong and he has to fight his way to victory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-31
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-03
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Ranger's Code
Overview: When his Ranger father is shot down and seriously wounded by rustlers, young Bob Baxter is given a Ranger's badge and a delivery to town of the rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-14
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Trailing North
Overview: As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled as Curly the Kid, he finds her and her friend Lucky. But Flash is another friend and Lee is in trouble when his true identity becomes known.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-15
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Tangled Destinies
Overview: An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers are found murdered, and one of the passengers reveals himself to be a detective who was guarding one of the murdered passengers, who was carrying a bag of diamonds--which is now missing. The detective must find out which of the passengers is the killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-17
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The Better 'Ole
Overview: The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-23
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Figures Don't Lie
Overview: Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a fetching one-piece bathing suit. The main story concerns wise-guy insurance salesman Richard Arlen, who through a combination of hard work and sheer gall lands a job as sales manager. But he can't land heroine Ralston, who has remained cool to his charms ever since he tried to make a play for her on the street. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-08
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Court-Martial
Overview: During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri guerrilla band, dead or alive. However, he falls in love with her, does not bring her in, and is facing a court-martial.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-12
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The One Way Trail
Overview: Tim thinks saloon owner Coldeye killed his brother. Seeking the ultimate payback, Tim gets a job in the saloon but has no idea he is targeting the wrong man.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-15
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Take Me Home
Overview: Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show's star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-13
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Galloping Romeo
Overview: Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives still locked. When pals Bob Rivers and Grizzly get the jop driving the stage, the same thing happens.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-04
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The Montana Kid
Overview: A cowboy whose friend has been swindled out of his ranch and then murdered must take care of the man's son, then he goes after the killers.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-09
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Crashing Broadway
Overview: When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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