Biography: Eleanor Parker |
Ohioan Eleanor Parker chose a career in acting when she was still in her teens and began appearing in professional stage productions in Cleveland and at California's Pasadena Playhouse. Signed at Warner Bros. in 1941, the red-haired actress was given... more
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Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 92min
Plot twists abound in this suspenseful made-for-television thriller as a beautiful actress tries to save her cousin from the schemes of a conniving murderer who just may be her lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Art Carney
Tags: Farce Detective Film Comedy Mystery
Length: 110min
Jake (Charles Grodin), an insurance investigator, is assigned to probe the killing of a wealthy businessman in Acapulco. To help him, he hires a beautiful New York model, Ellie (Farah Fawcett), to act as his wife, and they pretend to be tourists on...
The Great American Beauty Contest (1973)
Tags: Satire Comedy Drama Feminist Film
Length: 73min
An unsubtle but effective TV-movie satire of the "Miss America" syndrome, Great American Beauty Contest stars Joanna Cameron as a fire-breathing feminist who enters the contest of the title. She plans to win the crown, then utterly destroy the contest...
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
Cast: Ann-Margret Vittorio Gassman Dino Risi
Tags: Drama Marriage Drama Melodrama
Length: 110min
Dino Risi directed this bittersweet comedy about a 45-year-old man, Francesco Vincenzini (Vittorio Gassman), who becomes a grandfather for the first time and begins to fret about old age. When his son is rejected by the flirtatious Carolina...
Cast: David Lowell Rich
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime Horror
Length: 102min
This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their...
Cast: Milton Berle Elke Sommer Joseph Cotten Frank Sinatra Bob Hope Ed Begley, Sr.
Tags: Drama
Length: 119min
A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to...
Cast: Julie Andrews Robert Wise Christopher Plummer
Tags: Musical Romance Family Musical Drama Musical
Length: 174min
One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys...
Cast: Dana Andrews Jeanne Crain
Tags: Drama
Length: 94min
Dana Andrews is ad-man Clint Lorimer in this uneven drama, the last feature film by director Bruce Humberstone, released several years after it was completed. Clint is fired from his job working for a big ad agency, and he is determined to prove...
Cast: Janet Leigh Lloyd Nolan
Tags: Crime Drama Crime Thriller
Length: 103min
An American Dream is adapted from the Norman Mailer novel of the same name. Stuart Whitman plays an acerbic TV talk show host who kills his wife Eleanor Parker during an argument. Whitman exerts his influence to cover up his crime, and the official...
Cast: Akim Tamiroff Jayne Mansfield
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 90min
Frank Pagano, mobster and head of Pagano Enterprises, needs to lose 500,000 within thirty days to avoid paying a large sum in income taxes. Deciding on an ingenious plot to produce a flop television pilot, he hires Philipe Fontaine (Maurice...
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