Biography: Ann Rutherford |
Brunette Canadian leading lady Ann Rutherford had the sort of button-cute baby face that allowed her to play ingénues into her thirties. The daughter of an opera tenor and a stage actress, Rutherford was performing on-stage from childhood. She was... more
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Cast: Boris Karloff Danny Kaye Samuel Goldwyn Robert Altman Virginia Mayo
Tags: Comedy Musical Comedy Fantasy Comedy
Length: 110min
James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but the Technicolor musical comedy proved to be a cash cow at the box office. Danny Kaye stars as Walter, a milquetoast...
Tags: Adventure Drama Docudrama Combat Films Adventure Drama Historical Film
Length: 73min
Veteran character actor Joe Sawyer produced, co-wrote and co-starred in the diverting docudrama Operation Haylift. Based on an actual incident that took place in 1949, the film recounts the efforts of the U.S. Air Force to rescue stranded cattle...
Cast: Ann Rutherford
Tags: Crime Thriller Mystery Crime Romance
Length: 79min
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he...
Cast: Charlie Ruggles
Tags: Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy Americana
Length: 79min
Her Favorite Patient is the TV title for Bedside Manner, an improbable comedy directed by future master of "realism" Andrew L. Stone. Ruth Hussey plays a big-city doctor who travels to a small town to assist her surgeon uncle (Charlie Ruggles). The...
Tags: Mystery
Length: 68min
In this drama, an amnesiac awakens and finds himself accused of murder. Fortunately, a female cabbie helps prove his innocence. Things look bleak until a bullet wound helps him regain his memory and he can prove he didn't kill anyone. ~ Sandra...
Cast: Tod Browning
Length: 65min
In this crime drama, two ex-hoods find their attempts to straighten up and fly right are foiled by a blackmailing gangster who threatens to expose their past who forces them to rob the department store they work at. Outwardly, the crooks go along with...
Tags: Detective Film Crime Thriller Mystery Crime
Length: 65min
This 20th Century-Fox programmer stars Preston Foster as breezy detective Steve Carromond. When a man dies of a suspicious heart attack, the victim's niece, Constance Martin (Ann Rutherford), hires Steve to investigate. The solution to the mystery...
Cast: Jackie Gleason Cesar Romero
Tags: Musical Drama Romantic Drama Backstage Musical Musical Drama
Length: 98min
In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot involves small-town girl Ann Rutherford, who impulsively marries George Montgomery, a trumpeter in the Miller band. Rutherford soon...
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Thriller Comedy
Length: 87min
The last of three films starring Red Skelton as ace radio detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, Whistling in Brooklyn opens with Fox and girl friend Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford) making final preparations for a trip to Niagara Falls, where they intend to...
Cast: Don Ameche Harry Carey Natalie Wood
Tags: War Fantasy Drama War Drama
Length: 90min
An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence. The grieving father is shown the...
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